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Between 1990 and 2017 the abstracted volume of water in the EU27+UK declined by 9 % and in the EEA39 by 17 % (EEA, 2018b). Furthermore, between the first and second cycle of WFD implementation (2010 versus 2016), the area of groundwater bodies affected by over-abstraction decreased by around 7 % (WISE WFD data viewer). These overall trends are encouraging because they show a tendency to reduce the pressure from water abstraction in Europe. However, it should not be missed that water stress is a local and seasonal issue. Thus, overall reductions are not always informative on the actual severity of the problem at finer spatial and time scale. Similarly, water stress in rainfed agriculture and in rain-dependent nature areas is not or hardly mitigated by reduced water abstractions. 

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  • farrereg (Regis Farret) 05 Feb 2021 14:29:20

    The time series on water abstraction for agriculture in France, and provided to the EEA, starts in 2008. It is therefore formally impossible to conclude to a fall in the water used for agriculture from 1990.

    • zalllnih (Nihat Zal) 30 Jun 2021 12:14:09

       We also use the env_wat_abs data from Eurostat. 

      The time series on water abstraction for agriculture in France, and provided to the EEA, starts in 2008. It is therefore formally impossible to conclude to a fall in the water used for agriculture from 1990.

       

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