English Abstract In 1990 it was decided to prepare a new "Policy Plan on
Drinking- and Industrial Water Supply" to replace the sectoral planning and
formulated policy in the "Second Structural Policy Plan for Drinking- and
Industrial Water Supplies" (1984). During the preparation of this Plan,
several alternatives were developed for meeting future water needs. One
alternative comprises a combination of production modules. These
alternatives will be compared by several criteria. The criteria presented
in this report, which are in most cases subdivided into sub-criteria are:
"public health", "abiotic environment", "nature", "landscape", "land use",
"technological feasibility", flexibility", vulnerability", "economy" and
"administrative/egal aspects". An important part of the information about
groundwater, surface water and infiltrated water related supplies necessary
for the application of the weighing method is obtained from three so-called
"Base Reports". This last report deals primarily with the groundwater
collected for public water supplies, particularly concerning drinking-water
propduction. Much information of a highly variable quality is used. In
this report, the difference between the types of groundwater abstraction
(abstraction of unconfined or semiconfined groundwater and riverbank
infiltrated water) is given wherever possible.
