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4.1.1. An introduction to floods and drought in a European context

Before discussing the main pressures acting on Europe’s water resources and the resulting impacts, a brief overview is given of the current situation with regards to water scarcity and droughts, and to flooding. First, the Water Exploitation Index (WEI) will be introduced, which is used for mapping the balance between water availability and demand across Europe. Next, a discussion of trends in flood occurrence will highlight the current lack of a coherent European program for collecting data and information on past floods.

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vanneru (Rudy Vannevel) 20 Aug 2012 14:19:37

WEI: replace demand by abstraction (see on p. 29). Water demand reflect the volumes of water needed for human purposes, water abstraction the volumes withdrawn from the water system. Hence, water demand can be much higher than abstracted volumes.
- vannewou (Wouter Vanneuville) 22 Aug 2012 13:43:09
  
  WEI: replace demand by abstraction (see on p. 29). Water demand reflect the volumes of water needed for human purposes, water abstraction the volumes withdrawn from the water system. Hence, water demand can be much higher than abstracted volumes.
  
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Snjezana Dominkovic Alavanja (invited by Wouter Vanneuville) 24 Aug 2012 11:37:05

Page 28. figure 4.5: Based on data of Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service in almoust whole Croatia it was dry and wery dry. Maps of SPI3 for April and May 2011 /(available on http://klima.hr/spi.php?id=prostorna&Godina=2011&Mjesec=04 ) show that in whole Croatia SPI3 was below -2, or below -1.5, except for NW part (Istria) and the most southern part of Adriatic coast. Figure 4.5 shows different data.

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