Distribution of water withdrawn by resource and use France

This statistic represents the distribution of water withdrawals by resource and by use in France in 2013. Surface water accounts for approximately 32 percent of the volume of water withdrawn for the production of drinking water in metropolitan France in 2012.

Distribution of water withdrawals by resource and by use in France in 2013

Characteristic	Surface water	Underground waters
Potable water	32%	68%
Irrigation	63%	37%
Industry and other economic uses	63%	37%
Water channel	100%	0%
Cooling of power generation plants	100%	0%
All non-energy use and channel	83%	17%
All purpose	48%	52%

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Release date

June 2017

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Region

France

Survey time period

2013

Special properties

metropolitan France

Supplementary notes

The source adds the following information: "Data reported to water agencies, excluding sampling at sea and in brackish water, excluding hydroelectricity and channel supply. "
For this statistic, the values in the source document have been rounded.

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