Water management in selected EU member states in 2010s

Abstract

Study overviews main issues for agricultural water-use and wastewater conditions in Czechia, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Portugal, Spain in 1998 -2017. Analysis can provide possibility to compare water management and water cleaning avoiding wastewater in countries. Water management connects with irrigation mostly on permanent cultivated agricultural areas. Analysis focuses on agricultural value added contributing to GDP growth, share of agricultural GVA produced by irrigated agriculture, total renewable water resources per capita, produced municipal wastewater, the agricultural water withdrawal as % of total renewable water resources mainly on total agricultural water managed area concerning qualified level of cultivated lands. Motivation/Background: Aim of analyses is to clear some correlations of several economic variables mentioned as features of selected countries. Global warming and longer drought period in EU-28 need for more successful water management to balance scarcity of water. Method: Study compares water management feature of Spain and Portugal with some EU member states in Central – East European based on SPSS statistical analyse. Conclusions: Innovation prosperity should be developed by more educated and skilled human power resources in agricultural production. Share of production based on irrigated land by cleaning water should increase in total agricultural value added.