A dataset of distributed global water withdrawal from 1960 to 2017

Abstract. More and more high-resolution data sets are simulated worldwide and used in various research. However, in addition to the improvement in accuracy, the practical significance of the spatial distribution of data must also be considered. Considering that the most accurate water withdrawal data are mainly provided by the state, water is mainly concentrated on artificial surface and cultivated land. Whenever possible, using data published by regional or national governments and interpolating and extending them to specific land uses will maximize data accuracy. Based on this, we provide a set of water withdrawal intensity products from 1960 to 2017 distributed to the administrative units or the corresponding regions. The data set fills the gaps in the multi-year data set of the accurate intensity of water withdrawal. The datasets described in this article are publicly and freely available through the FigShare. The DOI for the data is https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.10012559.v1 (Yanetal.,2019).