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Michael Vardon and Jeremy Webb United Nations Statistics Division

International Recommendations for Water Statistics (IRWS) Training Session on the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting for Water (SEEAW) for the Arab Gulf Countries August 25-28, 2008 UN House- Beirut-Lebanon. Michael Vardon and Jeremy Webb United Nations Statistics Division.

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Michael Vardon and Jeremy Webb United Nations Statistics Division

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  1. International Recommendations for Water Statistics (IRWS) Training Session on the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting for Water (SEEAW) for the Arab Gulf CountriesAugust 25-28, 2008UN House- Beirut-Lebanon Michael Vardon and Jeremy Webb United Nations Statistics Division

  2. Background • The 38th Session UN Statistical Commission adopted the SEEAW as an interim international statistical standard in March 2007 and a SEEAW implementation strategy was developed included in the UNCEEA report to the 39th Session of UN Statistical Commission.

  3. Background, continued • The implementation strategy requires the development of guidance materials to enable countries to implement the SEEAW. • The IRWS will provide this guidance. • UNCEEA approved the process for the development and publication of IRWS at its June 2008 meeting http://unstats.un.org/unsd/envaccounting/ceea/meetings/UNCEEA_3_19.pdf

  4. SEEAW, IRWS and compilation guidelines • The IRWS is being developed by UNSD in accordance with the SEEAW implementation strategy • The IRWS will provide material to enable countries to produce the SEEAW standard tables, fill in international questionnaires and derive commonly used water indicators • After IRWS is completed more detailed compilation guidelines can be prepared as part of a knowledge-based platform, building on the existing material and the UNSD website (e.g. the searchable archive).

  5. Outline of IRWS International standard PART I Chapter 1: Introduction. Chapter 2: Main concepts and the SEEAW Chapter 3: Economic units Chapter 4: Data items PART II Chapter 5: Data collection strategy Chapter 6: Data sources and methods Chapter 7: Data quality and metadata Chapter 8: Dissemination Chapter 9: Indicators ANNEXES Annex 1: Supplementary data items Annex 2: Link between data items and the SEEAW Annex 3: Link between data items and indicators Annex 4: Data quality assessment framework General guidance Compilation guidelines available later

  6. Structure, coding and definition of data items • Similar data items are grouped • Physical and monetary • Stocks and flows • Data items are coded by letters and numbers • Each data item is defined

  7. Data items • Physical data items • Inland water resource stocks • Flows of water into and out of the territory • Natural transfers between inland water resources • Flows of water from the environment to the economy • Flows of water within the economy • Flows of water from the economy to the environment • Losses in distribution • Flows of waterborne emissions within the economy • Flows of waterborne emissions from the economy to the environment

  8. Data items, continued • Monetary data items • Economic flows related to water supply and sewerage • Water supply and sewerage infrastructure • Cost of water supply and sewerage (for own use) • Tariffs and charges for water supply and sewerage • Population data items • Type of water supply • Type of toilet and sewerage disposal

  9. Example of data item grouping:Flows of water from the environment to the economy

  10. Example definition: Abstraction of water (E.) Abstraction of water (E.) is the volume of water that is removed or collected by economic units directly from the environment. The abstraction of water is disaggregated by the source of water: inland water resources (E.1.) and other sources (E.2). Brackish and saline water abstracted for desalinisation from the sea, inland surface water or groundwater, are recorded as abstraction from the sea (E.2.2), abstraction of water from surface water (E.1.1.) and abstraction of water from groundwater (E.1.2). In some cases it may be useful to disaggregate the water sources by salinity class.

  11. SEEAW, IRWS and indicators • SEEAW has an annex on indicators that maps the SEEAW to the indicators used in the 2nd WWAP • SEEAW has a chapter on policy uses, which provides examples of the use of SEEAW for developing policy relevant indicators • IRWS will have a chapter on indicators that will provide general guidance on the characteristics, construction and use of indicators. This chapter will be supported by an annex mapping the IRWS to commonly used indicators, including those of FAO and WWAP.

  12. Link to international questionnaires • UNSD, Eurostat and OECD plan to fully harmonise their questionnaires with SEEAW. • See minutes of UNCEEA meeting for June 2007: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/envaccounting/ceea/meetings/UNCEEA_2_4.pdf ) • FAO is involved in the development of SEEAW. A concordance table of IRWS data items to “Aquastat” variables is planned.

  13. Timetable

  14. Contact details Michael Vardon United Nations Statistics Division New York 10017 USA Room DC2 1532 Phone: +1 917 367 5391 Fax: +1 212 963 1374 Email: vardon@un.org Jeremy Webb United Nations Statistics Division New York 10017 USA Room DC2 1410 Phone: +1 917 363 8564 Fax: +1 212 963 0623 Email: webb@un.org

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