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Changes in the use of freshwater for irrigation, industry, energy cooling and public water supply since the early 1990s
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Notes:
Eastern: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania*, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia.
Western: Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ireland*, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Austria, Finland, Sweden, England and Wales, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland*.
Southern: Greece, Spain, Italy*, Cyprus*, Malta, Portugal*.
Turkey is plotted on an individual column in this graph to depict the large increase in water use.
*: Water abstractions data are not available for all sectors and periods.
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- Annual freshwater abstraction by source and sector [env_wat_abs] , Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat)
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Denmark
- England
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- Wales
1990
2005
2007-2011