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Environmental information systems
Development of the water exploitation index plus (WEI+) - WEI+ by country
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Data sources
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More info
- 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)
- Albania
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Kosovo (UNSCR 1244/99)
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Montenegro
- Netherlands
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
1990-2017
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