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For the first time, a comprehensive picture, at community scale,
of the aquifers and their characteristics is available in digital form. For
several Member States of the European Communities (Belgium, Federal Republic
of Germany, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands and
United Kingdom) this pioneer study provides a complete catalogue of national
water resources. 1. Inventory of aquifers; 2. Hydrogeology of aquifers; 3. Groundwater abstraction; 4. Potential additional groundwater resources. The maps, covering 9 countries - Belgium, Federal Republic of Germany, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands and United Kingdom, were compiled from existing data sources. The information was digitized for the first three themes but
not for the latter (4) because for this the data sets were considered to be
outdated. The data were captured on a country basis using country boundary
polygons. Further details are described in the Project REPORT - A
DIGITAL DATASET OF EUROPEAN GROUNDWATER RESOURCES AT 1:500,000. (V. 1.0).
The digitization was carried out by Cartographic Data Development (CDD) Ltd., (C.M. Willers, D. Pavelley) under subcontract to The National Soil Resources Institute, Cranfield University, Silsoe UK - NSRI (HJ.M. Hollis, I.P. Holman, R.G.O. Burton). The project was financed as a Company Investment Propect by the European Crop Protection Association (ECPA), and steered by the ECPA GIS working group (J.R. Van de Veen, B. Erzgraber, A. Gurney, S. Hayes, T. Hauck, A. Huber, T.Schad, D. Yon).. The maps are presented in a DVD-version of database comprising 148 maps sheets, about 50cm x 80 cm (on average) in size, together with 10 detailed explanatory reports, one for each Member State and a General Survey. The explanatory reports are organized per theme, stressing the features of groundwater evaluation, which are significant at Community-level and based upon the data given by the consultants in national reports and during the various meetings with the coordinator. Basically, the first two themes present a purely hydrogeological regionalization of groundwater, aquifer per aquifer, whereas the last two themes are based on an administrative regionalization. Themes 1, 2 and 3 are factually based whereas theme 4 is based upon estimates made with assumptions that vary from country to country and sometimes even within a given country. Thus the fourth map theme must be read and interpreted together with the national reports. This
inventory aims to aid better use and management of water resources and to
permit modeling, taking into account administrative and political aspects of
the European Community. A new derived symbology, that ensures uniform mapping
of the results throughout the European Community, makes the information more
accessible and meaningful to the decisions-makers responsible for a better
exploitation of Europe’s groundwater resources. |
A grid
system based on the representation of the distribution of abstraction
densities and available
resources has been introduced into 1/500 000 scale maps adopted evenly to
support the smaller member states
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data of the Groundwater Resources Map of Europe is available in ArcView
3.2 format. For more details, please contact For detailed reports click on the countries below |
Contacts for more information .
Contacts details
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European Commission- JRC,
Institute of Environment and Sustainability, ITALY |
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European Commission- JRC,
Institute of Environment and Sustainability,
ITALY |
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