Gridded projections of ground and surface water abstraction and discharge for England 2020-2080

This dataset contains projected monthly surface and groundwater abstractions and annual discharges for England at 1 km × 1 km resolution, for the years 2020 to 2080 for three future scenarios: Economic Growth (EG), Business as Usual (BaU), and Sustainable (Sus). Further details are provided in the linked Data Document.

These datasets were produced by applying future scaling factors (derived from various publicly available water demand projections) to baseline datasets available at: https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/18886f95ba84447f997efac96df456ad (Rameshwaran et al., 2025). These datasets are designed to expore the impact of anthropogenic influences on future river flows and potential future resource challenges.

This data publication is supported by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/X019063/1 as part of the Hydro-JULES programme delivering National Capability, and linked with the Climate Services for a Net Zero Resilient World (CS-N0W) project.