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Changes in the use of freshwater for irrigation, industry, energy cooling and public water supply since the early 1990s
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Notes:
Eastern: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania*, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia.
Western: Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ireland*, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Austria, Finland, Sweden, England and Wales, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland*.
Southern: Greece, Spain, Italy*, Cyprus*, Malta, Portugal*.
Turkey is plotted on an individual column in this graph to depict the large increase in water use.
*: Water abstractions data are not available for all sectors and periods.
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- Annual freshwater abstraction by source and sector [env_wat_abs] , Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat)
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Wales
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2007-2011