European Union Compared by Environment > Water > Severe water stress

DEFINITION: Percent of country's territory under severe water stress
Units: Percent of Land Area
Units: This data is derived from the WaterGap 2.1 gridded hydrological model developed by the Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, Germany. The modellers derived, for each country, grid cell by grid cell estimates of whether the water consumption exceeds 40 percent of the water available in that particular grid cell. These were then converted to land area equivalents in order to calculate the percentage of the territory under severe water stress.

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#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE
1	Belgium	93.9	2000
2	Spain	72.3	2000
3	Greece	58	2000
4	Portugal	54.7	2000
5	Bulgaria	45.9	2000
6	Netherlands	36	2000
7	Italy	26.3	2000
8	United Kingdom	21	2000
9	France	19.4	2000
10	Denmark	7.7	2000
11	Finland	2.1	2000
12	Romania	1.7	2000
13	Germany	1.1	2000
14	Sweden	0.6	2000
15	Lithuania	0.4	2000
16	Estonia	0.3	2000
=17	Slovakia	0.0	2000
=17	Ireland	0.0	2000
=17	Hungary	0.0	2000
=17	Slovenia	0.0	2000
=17	Czech Republic	0.0	2000
=17	Austria	0.0	2000
=17	Latvia	0.0	2000
=17	Croatia	0.0	2000
=17	Poland	0.0	2000

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