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Area affected during at least for one quarter of the year by water scarcity conditions in the EU, measured by the water exploitation index plus
European data
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Methodology:
• Any river sub-basin delineated in Ecrins with quarterly WEI+ value equal or greater than 20% is adopted as area where water scarcity was experienced.
• WEI+ illustrates the percentage of water consumption against renewable freshwater resources available for a given territory and period.
• Slovakia provided its annual WEI for 2019 by excluding the impacts of the Danube river on the overall water balance of the country.
• ISPRA, in collaboration with Istat, provided provisional annual WEI+ values for Italy for the years 2015-2019 by following the WEI+ formula that is also implemented by the EEA. In the annual WEI+ computation for Italy (2015-2019), the term ΔS (change in water storage) is negligible and it has therefore been set equal to zero. In the seasonal WEI+ estimation, provided by Italy for 2019, the term ΔS (change in water storage) has been considered instead.-
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Percentage
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Owners:
- European Environment Agency (EEA)
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Figure type:
- Graph
Additional information
This chart gives an overview of the total area affected by water scarcity conditions in the European Union.
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