PORTUGAL · LANDSCAPE · WATER
Zonas Sensíveis (Águas Residuais)
What this layer shows
The sensitive areas identified under the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive, in mainland Portugal: water bodies subject to eutrophication or associated with abstractions, where urban waste-water discharges face stricter treatment requirements.
Publisher and licence
Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente, I.P.
Licence not stated by the publisher
© Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente, I.P.
Where the data comes from
ARCGIS · sniambgeoogc.apambiente.pt
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Legal instrument
In these presets
Água e litoral
The water-related constraints of mainland Portugal: the drinking-water abstraction protection perimeters (immediate, intermediate and outer zones), the Water Framework Directive abstraction protected zones, the public-water reservoirs and their POAAP zoning, the POOC coastal zoning, the waste-water sensitive areas and the nitrate vulnerable zones.