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Notes: Western southern: France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain
The map is based on The Pan-European Soil Erosion Risk Assessment (PESERA) model, which uses a process-based and spatially distributed model to estimate soil erosion risk by water across Europe
Number of groundwater bodies for each country given in brackets following the country abbreviation
The figure shows the time series 1993-2001
Left: relative difference in water available for runoff
Household water use is generally calculated from the estimated or measured total public water supply and can either include or exclude leakage losses in the distribution system
Source-oriented approaches
The rate of change of the 'meteorological water balance', expressed in m3 ha-1 y-1 The map provides an estimate of the increase (red in the map) or decrease (blue in the map) of the volume of water required from irrigation in order to ensure that crop growth is not limited by water stress.
In order to have a visually uninterrupted hydrographic network WISE Large rivers and large lakes should be used in combination with Transitional waters that resides along with the River basin district data.
Left: example of a forecast of topsoil moisture (15 July, 2008), right: subsoil available water capacity derived from modelling data.
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