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Sustainable consumption and production

15. Water resource use

Total abstractions from non-tidal surface and ground water, leakage losses and Gross Domestic Product, 1990 to 2007

Water resource use

Water resource use 1971

Abstractions since:
1990
Green
2003
Green
Leakage losses since:
1992-3
Green
2003-4
Amber
  • In 2006, 35 billion litres of water were abstracted per day from non-tidal surface and ground water sources in England and Wales. Although this is a decrease since 1971, abstraction had been lower during the early 1980s.
  • In the mid-1990s abstractions increased in line with economic growth. A recent decline has led to abstractions below 1990 levels.
  • Leakage losses increased in the early 1990s but in 2007-8 leakage losses were 31 per cent lower than in 1992-3.  

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Updated: 30 July 2009