France: pesticide pollution of watercourses by river basin 2013

This statistic illustrates the detection rate of pesticides in watercourses in France in 2013, by river basin. In Martinique almost 93 percent of the observation stations have detected pesticides present in the water.

Detection rate of pesticides in watercourses in France in 2013, by river basin*

Characteristic	Detection rate of pesticide
Artois Picardie	100%
Seine Normandie	98.9%
Rhin Meuse	98.7%
Loire Bretagne	98.2%
metropolitan France	93.4%
Martinique	92.9%
Adour Garonne	88%
Guadeloupe	84%
Rhône Méditerranée Corse	79.3%
overseas Departments	50.8%
Mayotte	1.6%
La Réunion	0.1%
Guyane	0%
TOTAL France	91.6%

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Release date

November 2015

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Region

France

Survey time period

2013

Special properties

metropolitan France and overseas departments and regions

Supplementary notes

* Percentages were calculated using the difference between the number of monitoring points and the number of points with pesticide detection.

The source adds the following information: "These data were collected from the Regional Water Agencies in mainland France and the Water Offices for the French overseas departments. »

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