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Development of the water exploitation index plus (WEI+)

Data Visualization Created 29 Nov 2019 Published 23 Dec 2019 Last modified 08 Jan 2020
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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

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

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Data Waterbase - Water Quantity Waterbase is the generic name given to the EEA's databases on the status and quality of Europe's rivers, lakes, groundwater bodies and transitional, coastal and marine waters, on the quantity of Europe's water resources, and on the emissions to surface waters from point and diffuse sources of pollution.
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Waterbase - Water Quantity Waterbase is the generic name given to the EEA's databases on the status and quality of Europe's rivers, lakes, groundwater bodies and transitional, coastal and marine waters, on the quantity of Europe's water resources, and on the emissions to surface waters from point and diffuse sources of pollution.
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Waterbase - Water Quantity Waterbase is the generic name given to the EEA's databases on the status and quality of Europe's rivers, lakes, groundwater bodies and transitional, coastal and marine waters, on the quantity of Europe's water resources, and on the emissions to surface waters from point and diffuse sources of pollution.
External Data Spec OECD water database
External Data Spec Aquastat water database Water use - FAO Aquastat
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Water statistics (Eurostat) Population connected to waste water collection and treatment systems. Yearly data on  waste water treatment (connection rates of resident population to  waste water treatment and treatment capacities of waste water treatment  plants), collected biennially by means of the OECD/Eurostat Joint  Questionnaire - Inland Waters. Data aggregation: national territories.
External Data Spec E-OBS gridded dataset E-OBS gridded version of the ECA dataset (netCDF) with daily temperature, precipitation and pressure fields The ECA dataset contains series of daily observations at meteorological stations throughout Europe and the Mediterranean. Temperature data from E-OBS (KNMI) the ENSEMBLE FP6 project    

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For references, please go to https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/daviz/water-exploitation-index-plus or scan the QR code.

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