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ENV15 - Water abstraction tables for England

Annual water abstraction estimates for England.

Updates to this page

From:
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Published:
19 December 2012
Last updated:
14 July 2022
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  1. Updated with data for 2018 added.

  2. Annual updates.

  3. Due to historic errors in the 2003 and 2014 data.

  4. Annual update.

  5. Annual updates to datasets.

  6. Title of one attachment amended.

  7. Annual updates to datasets for water abstraction publication.

  8. New abstraction data published

  9. Updated edition

  10. Amended table iwtb23c uploaded.

  11. First published.

Data on the number of licenses held and estimates of average abstraction in millions of cubic metres are presented for non tidal waters (groundwater and non tidal surface waters) and tidal waters, and by the following purpose categories:

  • public water supply
  • spray irrigation (agricultural and non agricultural)
  • agriculture (excl. spray irrigation)
  • electricity generation
  • other industry
  • fish farming, cress growing, amenity ponds
  • private water supply
  • other

If you require the data in another format such as Excel please contact: FandWStatistics@defra.gov.uk

Water abstraction statistics: England, 2000 to 2018

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