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Water and ecosystem accounting

exercise

Instructions

This exercise aims to test your understanding of water accounting and in particular if

you can use information from a diagram to populate two accounts. These are:

1. The water asset account of the SEEA Experimental Ecosystem Accounting and

2. A simplified version of the SEEA-Water physical supply and use table to account

for the ecosystem service of water provision

Each account should take about 15 minutes to complete.

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1. Using the figure below populate the water asset account.

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2. Using the figure below populate the simplified version of the SEEA-Water physical supply and use table to account for the

ecosystem service of water provision.

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Table. Simplified version of the SEEA-Water physical supply and use table to account for the ecosystem service of water provision.

Total useAgriculture, forestry and

fishing

Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning

supply

Water collection,

treatment and supply

Other industries Households

Sources of abstracted water Inland water resources

Surface waterGroundwaterSoil waterTotal

Other water sourcesPrecipitationSea waterTotal

Use abstracted waterAbstracted water

Distributed waterOwn useUse of water from other economic units

Total use of water (abstracted and from other economic units)

Use of water

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Use of water Total use

Agriculture, forestry and

fishing

Electricity, gas, steam

and air conditioning

supply

Water collection, treatment

and supply

Other industries

Households

Sources of abstracted water Inland water resources

Surface water

Groundwater

Soil water

Total Other water sources

Precipitation Sea water

Total

Use abstracted water Abstracted water

Distributed water

Own use Use of water from other economic units

Total use of water (abstracted and from other economic units)