Water and climate impacts — Europe's environment 2025

Urban Farm DB summary

This EEA briefing from the 2025 Europe's environment report states that water stress affects roughly 30% of Europe's land area and 34% of its population every year, and that EU water abstraction fell 19% between 2000 and 2022. It also reports that flooding caused average annual economic losses of EUR 6.5 billion between 1980 and 2023, and 5,582 direct deaths between 1980 and 2022.

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• 30 %

  land area affected(water stress)

  Water

  region

  Europe

• 34 %

  population affected(water stress)

  Water

  region

  Europe

• 6.5 billion_eur_per_year

  economic loss per year(flooding)

  Climate

  region

  Europe

  year

  1980-2023

• 19 %↓ Decrease

  abstraction change(water abstraction)

  WaterControl: 2000 vs 2022

  region

  EU

• 5,582 count

  direct deaths(flooding)

  Climate

  region

  Europe

  year

  1980-2022

Direction of conclusions

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• Water useSupportsWith caveats