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Some characteristics about drinking water supply and nitrogen sources in the EU and US.
	Population		Drinking water supply			Waste water	N-surplus agriculture

	million	%rural	%ground water	%surface water	%large^afacilities	%untreated	kg/ha

Austria	7.8	46	95	5	60	14	36
Belgium	10.2	4	53	33	90	62	145
Denmark	5.3	39	99	1	74	11	111
Finland	5.3	63	34	36	36	19	56
France	59.7	17	64	36	73	23	41
Germany	82.7	14	72	16	82	7	92
Greece	10.7	40	50	50	69	44	48
Ireland	3.6	71	25	75	75	27	63
Italy	57.6	10	85	15	83	31	40
Netherlands	15.9	2	66	34	100	2	256
Spain	28.4	16	35	65	73	45	35
UK	58.1	4	27	58	98	5	37
US^b	293.7	20	33	67	84	no data	^c43

a) serving more than 5000 consumers, b) US data from [34], EU data from [22] and EUROSTAT http://epp.eurostat.cec.eu.int/ webcite c) Inferred from [35]
van Grinsven et al. Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source 2006 5:26 doi:10.1186/1476-069X-5-26

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