Glossary:Water use

From Statistics Explained

Water use refers to water actually used by end users (e.g. households, services, agriculture, industry) within a territory for a specific purpose such as domestic use, irrigation or industrial processing.

Water supply, in contrast, is the delivery of water to end users including abstraction for own final use.

Further Eurostat information

• Water use (CODED - Concepts and Definitions Database)

Related concepts

• Groundwater
• Surface water
• Water abstraction

Statistical data

• Water statistics

Source

Joint OECD/Eurostat Questionnaire 2002 on the State of the Environment, section on Inland Waters