Agricultural Drought Indices - US Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Drought Indices - US Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Drought Indices - US Department of Agriculture
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Table 5. Analysis <strong>of</strong> drought impacts.<br />
On the negative side, there were still significant impacts:<br />
• Restrictions on irrigation supply, up to 50%.<br />
• Increased pressure on groundwater supplies (aquifers).<br />
• Great investment effort: 406.46 M€ from 2004-05 to 2008-09.<br />
• Water price (also connected with water scarcity):<br />
o Desalination water costs: up to 0.72 €/m 3 (in 2008).<br />
o Urban supply water price: 0.55 €/m 3 (in 2008).<br />
o Abstracted water cost: up to 0.25 €/m 3 .<br />
European Expert Network on Water Scarcity and <strong>Drought</strong>s<br />
As a consequence <strong>of</strong> the release <strong>of</strong> the European Water Framework Directive (WFD 2000), the<br />
Common Implementation Strategy (CIS) was created to ease the implementation process. In the<br />
field <strong>of</strong> water scarcity and droughts, and within the WFD CIS structure, the European Expert<br />
Network on Water Scarcity and <strong>Drought</strong>s was set up in December 2006. The Network developed<br />
the technical document <strong>Drought</strong> Management Report, including <strong>Agricultural</strong>, <strong>Drought</strong> Indicators<br />
and Climate Change Aspects (DMP Report 2007).<br />
The main tasks (among others) are:<br />
• Support the definition <strong>of</strong> commonly accepted indicators for water scarcity and droughts in<br />
Europe.<br />
• Support the creation <strong>of</strong> drought risk maps, through commonly agreed-on methodology and<br />
scales.<br />
The lead countries are Spain, France, and Italy.<br />
Pilot River Basins<br />
The Segura River Basin has been selected by the Spanish Ministry <strong>of</strong> the Environment and Rural<br />
and Marine Affairs as the Spanish Pilot River Basin, within the Expert Network on Water Scarcity<br />
and <strong>Drought</strong>s (Figure 11).<br />
The role <strong>of</strong> the pilot river basins is to share their experiences in the indicator selection process.<br />
Member states will evaluate the initial results in pilot river basins and check their effectiveness.<br />
The map server <strong>of</strong> the European <strong>Drought</strong> Observatory (EDO) at the European Commission Joint<br />
Research Centre (JRC) will be a valuable tool for implementing the results <strong>of</strong> this process:<br />
http://edo.jrc.ec.europa.eu/php/index.php?action=view&id=201<br />
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