Datasets / Abstractions from non-tidal surface water and groundwater by use: 2000 to 2010


Abstractions from non-tidal surface water and groundwater by use: 2000 to 2010

Published By Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Issued almost 10 years ago

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Summary

Type of release
ongoing release of a series of related datasets

Licence
UK Open Government Licence

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

The consumption of water abstracted from non-tidal surface and groundwater in England and Wales has fallen from an estimated 41.2 thousand megalitres/day in 2000 to 34 thousand megalitres/day in 2010. Latest figures for 2010 show a very slight increase compared to 2009. A megalitre is one million litres.