Agences de l’eau / Office français de la biodiversité
Prélèvements en eau — abstraction database
The Banque Nationale des Prélèvements en Eau: annual volumes actually abstracted at each declared abstraction point, classified by purpose — public water supply, irrigation, industry, electricity generation and canals — with the qualification and verification status the water agency assigned to each declaration.
Rights
- Commercial reuse
- Yes
- Redistribution
- Yes
- Derivative use
- Yes
- Attribution required
- YesSource: Hub’Eau / Système d’information sur l’eau, under Licence Ouverte (Etalab).
- Terms last checked
- 25 August 2026
Access and coverage
- Publisher
- Agences de l’eau / Office français de la biodiversité
- Geographic coverage
- France — 193,000 abstraction points, department and commune level
- Temporal coverage
- 2012 onwards
- Update frequency
- annual
- Formats
- json, csv, api
- Bulk download
- Available
- Registration required
- No
- Cost to Hydrionis
- Free
- Domains
- abstraction, withdrawal, sector use
Notes
Records actual declared abstraction, not licensed entitlement. The two are separate quantities and Hydrionis does not derive one from the other.
What Hydrionis uses it for
7,010 observations across 6 metrics currently reference this source.