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Agricultural activities have in many places affected the hydromorphological status of European water bodies. Water storage and abstraction for irrigated agriculture have, in particular in Southern Europe changed, the hydrological flow regime of many river basins. Intensification of agriculture included many land reclamation projects affecting transitional and coastal waters and affected many rivers that were straightened, deepened and widened to facilitate catchment drainage and to prevent local flooding.