Development of the water exploitation index plus (WEI+)

• E-OBS gridded dataset, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)
• Waterbase - Water Quantity, European Environment Agency (EEA)
• Water statistics , Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat)
• Aquastat water database, Faostat
• OECD water database, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Methodology

WEI+ is estimated as ratio of water use versus renewable freshwater resources for a given spatial unit e.g. river basin or country level in a defined time period i.e. seasonal (quarter) or annual