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The water exploitation index plus (WEI+) aims to illustrate pressure on renewable water resources of a defined territory (river basin, sub-basin etc.) in a given period (e.g. seasonal, annual) as a consequence of water use for human activities. Values above 20 % indicate that water resources are under stress, and above 40 % indicate severe stress and a clearly unsustainable use of freshwater resources (Raskin et al., 1997).
see https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/use-of-freshwater-resources-2/assessment-3 |
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The water exploitation index plus (WEI+) aims to illustrate pressure on renewable water resources of a defined territory (river basin, sub-basin etc.) in a given period (e.g. seasonal, annual) as a consequence of water use for human activities. Values above 20 % indicate that water resources are under stress, and above 40 % indicate severe stress and a clearly unsustainable use of freshwater resources (Raskin et al., 1997).
see https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/use-of-freshwater-resources-2/assessment-3 |
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[[-24.5334395974889,34.565683122246],[37.9898316652697,71.1856536851114]] |
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EEA; KNMi (E-OBS dataset); Eurostat; JRC (Lisflood) |
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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>The WEI+ has been estimated as the quarterly average per river basin district, for the years 1990-2015, as defined in the European catchments and rivers network system (ECRINS). The ECRINS delineation of river basin districts differs slightly from that defined by Member States under the Water Framework Directive. The Ecrins delineation is used instead of WFD because it contains geo-spatial information on Europe’s hydrographical systems with full topological information enabling flow estimation between upstream and downstream basins, as well as integration of economic data collected at NUTS or country level. In addition to using e WISE SoE – Water quantity database, a comprehensive manual data collection was performed by accessing all open sources (Eurostat, OECD, FAO) including national statistical offices of the countries. This was done because of the temporal and spatial gaps in the data on water abstraction. Moreover, a large part of the stream flow data from LISFLOOD has also been substantially updated by the Directorate-General Joint Research Centre. Similarly, a comprehensive update with climatic parameters has been performed by the EEA based on the E-OBS dataset.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>see https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/use-of-freshwater-resources-2/assessment-3</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> |
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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><P STYLE="font-size:16ptmargin:7 0 7 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Re-use of content for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged</SPAN></SPAN></P><DIV><P><SPAN /></P></DIV></DIV> |
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Water exploitation index plus for river basin disrtricts (Q3 2015) |
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Map Service |
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["water scarcity; drought; fresh water resources; water use; climate change"] |
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WEIPlus_2015Q3_corrected_mod |
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3376A115-BB7B-4CFE-8E0D-A4E1F824535D |
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WGS_1984_Web_Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere |