Abstract
Croatia is a middle-sized country at the south of Central Europe, a member state of the European Union (since 2013), with a land area of 56,594 km2 and total population of around 4.2 million. Despite the size, it has very heterogeneous physical-geographical characteristics. Croatia is ranked third (or fourth if one counts Russia) in Europe by the Total Renewable Water Resources per capita (TRWR). Nevertheless, water resources are characterized by many spatial and temporal differences and variability which are the result of countries rich geological, geomorphological and climatological diversity. This chapter focus on water balance components, and surface water resources in Croatia, analyses main water use sectors, water resources management system and flood protection in Croatia.
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Potential evapotranspiration (PET) is the evaporation that would occur given a sufficient amount of water, so it is practically the same as evaporation from a free water surface. Real evapotranspiration (ET) is the evaporation from plants and soil, which depends on the amount of water available from precipitation and soil water reserves.
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Čanjevac, I., Orešić, D. (2020). Surface Water Resources and Their Management in Croatia. In: Negm, A., Romanescu, G., Zelenakova, M. (eds) Water Resources Management in Balkan Countries. Springer Water. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22468-4_7
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