An official website of the European Union How do you know?      
European Commission logo
JRC Publications Repository Menu

Water scarcity in the Netherlands August 2022

cover
GDO analytical report
The Dutch government declared a “de facto water shortage (level 2)” on August 3rd, scaling up from a “threat of water shortage (level 1)”. With this declaration, the management of the water distribution is delegated to a national commission (Management Team Water Scarcity) with the aim of following the development of the water scarcity more closely and being able to react faster if the need for more measures arises. Currently, mostly preventive measures are taken. Europe has been experiencing a severe-to-extreme drought since the beginning of 2022 with forecast for the coming months still pointing to drier-than-normal conditions. The main impacts on the Netherlands are related to the severely low flow in the Rhine River, affecting commercial navigation, dike stability in the peatland areas in the western part of the country, and causing related - still manageable - problems such as water distribution difficulties and sea water intrusion throughout the strongly interconnected water system.
2022-08-09
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC130436
978-92-76-55620-6 (online),   
1831-9424 (online),   
EUR 31176 EN,    OP KJ-NA-31-176-EN-N (online),   
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC130436,   
10.2760/41027 (online),   
Language Citation
NameCountryCityType
Datasets
IDTitlePublic URL
Dataset collections
IDAcronymTitlePublic URL
Scripts / source codes
DescriptionPublic URL
Additional supporting files
File nameDescriptionFile type 
Show metadata record  Copy citation url to clipboard  Download BibTeX
Items published in the JRC Publications Repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Additional information: https://ec.europa.eu/info/legal-notice_en#copyright-notice