Eurostat’s activities in the area of Water Accounts

Stephan Moll

Water Accounts and Economics Workshop7 and 8 October, 2010EEA, Copenhagen

Objectives

Overall: provide overview on Eurostat‘s activities

Water Accounts by Eurostat

How it is embedded into Eurostat‘s Environmental

Accounts programme

Main message => limited scope of Eurostat‘s activities!

Contributing to

“Mapping of who does what in Europe?”

Water information by Eurostat

Distinguish !

1. Water Statistics => water policies

2. Water Accounts => macro-economic policy

(sustainable consumption and production)

Unit E.3 “Environmental and Forestry Statistics”

– Jürgen Förster => Joint Questionnaire on Inland Water

(OECD/Eurostat)

Unit E.7 “Environmental Accounts and Climate Change”

– Stephan Moll => add water-”vectors” to Input-Output framework

Eurostat’s Environmental Accounts Programme - E.7

based on SEEA

2003:

Monetary Flow

Accounts relate to

accounting-block A.

It comprises 6

modules

Physical and Hybrid

Flow Accounts relate

to accounting blocks

C and E.

It comprises 5

modules

flowaccounts

asset accounts

monetary

Aenvironmental transactionshighlighting

(zooming in) existing SNA

B

asset accounts in monetary terms:

e.g. valuation

physical

Cuse of natural

resources (emissions, raw materials, water,

energy, land)

D

asset accounts in physical terms: e.g.

reserves

hybrid

E

e.g. environmentally-extended Input-Output tables

F = B + D

e.g. forestry accounts

Why Water Accounts at Eurostat ?

…the mandate

European Strategy for Environmental Accounts ESEA (2008 revision):

…develop Water Accounts in the longer run (2012-13)

=> joint project of the European Statistical System ESS

Eurostat = “project manager”

Decision: to start with physical flow accounts !

…taking into account international developments

…the typical project cycle WHAT ? objective

– Set of tables (Water Accounts: physical flow accounts)

HOW ? options to reach objective

– Compilation methods (standards)

DO IT ! decide and implement

– Data production (questionnaire, testing, pre-filling, legal base)

Eurostat’s NAMEA Task Force on Water

Meeting 22-23 September 2010

Objectives:

1. ...develop set of tables for Water Accounts

2. …clarify conceptual issues

3. …start develop compilation methods

Set of Tables (water PSUTs)

Basic choice:

=> employ concept of Physical Supply and Use Tables (PSUT)

.

Set of Tables (water PSUTs)

1. Physical Supply and Use Tables on water flows

RoW Nature RoW Nature

S U P P L Y U S E

activitiesflows .

activitiesflows .

(iii) residuals

activities

Industries final uses

wat

er fl

ows

(i) resources

(ii) products(ii) products

(iii) residuals

wat

er fl

ows

Industries

activities

(i) resources

Set of Tables (water PSUTs)

2. Physical Supply and Use Tables on emissions to water

RoW Nature RoW Naturesubstance 1 substance 1

substance 2 substance 2

substance 3 substance 3

substance 4 substance 4

substance 5 substance 5

… …

substance n substance n

em

issi

on

s to

wa

ter

S U P P L Y

activitiesflows .

activities

Industries final uses

em

issi

on

s to

wa

ter

U S E

activitiesflows .

activities

Industries final uses

…link to SEEA-Water

bridge

water flows

SEEA-W:

Table 3.1

RoW Nature

S U P P L Y

activitiesflows .

(ii) products

(iii) residuals

wat

er fl

ows

Industries

activities

(i) resources

RoW Nature

U S E

activitiesflows .

(iii) residuals

activities

Industries final uses

wat

er fl

ows

(i) resources

(ii) products

…link to SEEA-Water

RoW Naturesubstance 1

substance 2

substance 3

substance 4

substance 5

…

substance n

emis

sion

s to

wat

er

S U P P L Y

activitiesflows .

activities

Industries final uses

RoW Naturesubstance 1

substance 2

substance 3

substance 4

substance 5

…

substance n

emis

sion

s to

wat

er

U S E

activitiesflows .

activities

Industries final uses

bridge

emissions to water

SEEA-W:

Table 4.2 A

Table 4.2 B

Outlook

Next steps in ESS process:

– Final layout of Water PSUTs (2010)

– Testing 1: populating with NL and JQ data (ca. 2011)

– Testing 2: voluntary questionnaire to countries (ca. 2012-

2014)

– Manual (compilation methods) (starting 2011)

– Legal base ?

Discussion

How do Eurostat’s activities fit into WISE?

Exchange of raw data ?

(e.g. modelling evapotranspiration)

Help finding “right“ indicator (e.g. water consumption)

Ensuring consistent use of concepts, terminology etc.