Water Abstraction
The extracted water could also be used as drinking water after suitable treatment.
Water abstraction. Water abstraction is a term that is used to define the process by which water in its natural environment may be artificially removed through some sort of manmade structure or through the process of changing the flow of the water from its usual course to some other course that the people responsible for the diversion may have set. Unless water is abstracted illegally it is abstracted under a water right. The term water withdrawal also called water abstraction or often simply water use refers to the extraction of water from the groundwater or a surface water body like a river lake or artificial storage reservoir. Water abstraction entails abstracting raw water from a source and conveying it to a distribution network or to a treatment facility depending on the raw water quality.
Water extraction is the process of taking water from any source either temporarily or permanently for flood control or to obtain water for for example irrigation. Water abstraction refers to the process of taking or extracting water from a natural source rivers lakes groundwater aquifers etc for various uses from drinking to irrigation treatment. As a measure of freshwater use the wf differs from the classical measure of water withdrawal in several ways.