Digital Dataset of European Groundwater Resources

A comprehensive picture, at European Union scale, of the aquifers and their characteristics is available in digital form. In 1982, a study by the European Commission provided a complete catalogue of national water resources for several Member States of the European Union (Belgium, Federal Republic of Germany, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands and United Kingdom). This catalogue comprised a series of groundwater resources maps of Europe, at scale 1:500,000 ; there were 38 map sheets covering four themes: -Inventory of aquifers; -Hydrogeology of aquifers; -Groundwater abstraction; -Potential additional groundwater resources. [Summary provided by the European Union Joint Research Center.]