Beate Werner and Nihat Zal European Water Assets Accounts and Regionalized Water Exploitation Index (WEI+) Beate Werner and Nihat Zal ETC/ICM-NTUA George Bariamis Alexandros Zachos Dimitris Panagos Evangelos Baltas WG PoM, 15 October 2015, Brussels Photo: © Peter Kristensen

Scope of the current EEA Water Accounts (Updating CSI 0018- Use of freshwater resources/Water exploitation index) The pattern of water stress prone areas (temporal and spatial) across Europe Type and level of pressures over the renewable water resources Assessing resource efficiency and sustainability of water use across Europe Providing further information on Natural Capital Accounting of Water

Scope of the current EEA Water Accounts (Updating CSI 0018- Use of freshwater resources/Water exploitation index) The pattern of water stress prone areas (temporal and spatial) across Europe Type and level of pressures over the renewable water resources Assessing resource efficiency and sustainability of water use across Europe Providing further information on Natural Capital Accounting of Water Using the data Assessment reports

EEA Water Accounts Components (UN System of Environmental Accounts for Water- CF 2012) Flow accounts (a) Physical supply and use tables (b) Emission accounts (c) Hybrid and economic accounts 2. Asset accounts (a) Produced assets (b) Water resources (c) Quality accounts 3. Valuation of non-market flows   Covered by EEA At the catchment scale (Ecrins delineation) on monthly resolution (for the years 2002-2012)

Timeline of updating CSI 0018 (Regionalized WEI+) March-May 2015 June-August 2015 September-November 2015 Eionet consultation on the WA report Possible revisions and inclusions into the EEA WA results based on the MS feedbacks Second version of the EEA WA Report Country review of CSI 18 including Eionet and WFD Water Accounts Experts - Revision of SoE WQ database Full integration of SoE WQ data where available and feasible - Cooperation with Joint Research Center on runoff data integration Validation of the current EEA climatic database with the SoE WQ data Update water use datasets Upgrading ECRINS (Spatial reference data) Proposal of revised CSI 18 MS review of CSI 18 Publication of new CSI 18 on the EEA website -Temporal coverage 2002-2012 on monthly resolution -Spatial coverage (EEA 31 member countries+ 6 Cooperating Countries) -EIONET consultation (by the end of October)

Water abstraction by source (Annual and Quarterly) European overview on Water abstraction and use by source and sector Water abstraction by source (Annual and Quarterly) Winter captures almost 70% of total annual renewable water resources compared to summer has only around 10%

European overview on Water abstraction and use by source and sector Water use by sectors (Annual and Quarterly)

European overview on Water abstraction and use by source and sector Water use by sectors in Biogeographical regions (Winter and Summer)

Drivers of water stress prone areas across Europe (2002-2012) Population driven Climate driven

Water exploitation index – Water stress prone areas across Europe (2002-2012)

Water exploitation index – Water stress prone areas across Europe (2002-2012)

About 70 million inhabitans are living under the water stress conditions in summer months across Europe.

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