WISE 2016 RiverBasinDistrict_FR_20161109
Organisation : Système d'Information sur l'Eau
Licence : Licence Ouverte / Open Licence version 2.0
Mots-clés : adour-garonne,artois-picardie,corse,donnees-descriptives,donnees-ouvertes,france-metropolitaine,gouvernance-et-gestion-integree-de-leau-politique-publique,guadeloupe,guyane,hvd,loire-bretagne,martinique,mayotte,observation-de-la-terre-et-environnement,reunion,rhin-meuse,rhone-mediterranee,river-basin-districts-water-framework-directive,seine-normandie,zonages-techniques-et-reglementaires,zones-de-gestion-de-restriction-ou-de-reglementation-et-unites-de-declaration

River basin is The area of land from which all surface run-off flows through a sequence of streams, rivers and, possibly, lakes into the sea at a single river mouth, estuary or delta
River basin district corresponds to a national river basin district (example:  rivers of Corsica)) or a portion of an international river basin district situated on the territory of a Member State (examples: Meuse, Sambre)
River basin district is the main unit for management of river basins and is represented cartographically by the aggregation of sub-basins component.