Post a comment on the text below

2.6.     Heavily modified and artificial water bodies

See draft chapter 2 of draft thematic assessment on hydromorphology < the main results are included below>

The Water Framework Directive (WFD) allows Member States (MS) to designate some of their surface waters as heavily modified water bodies (HMWB) or artificial water bodies (AWB), whereby they will not need to meet the same quality criteria required for other surface waters, which are considered as natural types.  A surface water body is a section of a river, lake, or transitional or coastal water.