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Table 14 Volumes Extracted in 2001 for Water Uses in France (in millions of m 3 ) (from the Réseau National des Données sur l'Eau, 2004).

Type of use Type of resource Rhône-

Méditerranée-
Corse

Rhin-Meuse Loire-Bretagne Seine-

Normandie

Adour-Garonne Artois-

Picardie

FRANCE

Drinking water
supply

Surface water 474 53 466 788 456 17 2,253

Groundwater 1,288 328 542 938 287 330 3,713

Industrial uses Surface water 494 482 135 492 386 181 2,170

Groundwater 568 413 76 209 103 111 1,480

Irrigation Surface water 2,814 9 154 9 670 1 3,658

Groundwater 196 70 351 107 361 24 1,110

Energy Surface water 12,705 3,706 1,909 539 281 1 19,141

Groundwater 18 < 1 < 1 < 1 < 1 <1 19