Poly[tri-µ(2)-aqua-(µ(3)-pyridine-2,4-dicarboxyl-ato-κN,O:O:O)barium].

In the polymeric title compound, [Ba(C(7)H(3)NO(4))(H(2)O)(3)](n), the Ba(II) ion is ten-coordinated in an NO(9) environment by one N atom and three O atoms from three pyridine-2,4-dicarboxyl-ate (pydc) ligands and six water mol-ecules. The µ(3)-pydc ligands and the bridging water mol-ecules connect the Ba atoms into a layer parallel to (100). The crystal packing is stabilized by O-H⋯O and C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds.