1. 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

2. Scope of the current EEA Water Accounts
(Updating CSI 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

3. Scope of the current EEA Water Accounts
(Updating CSI 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

4. 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 )

5. 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 on monthly resolution
-Spatial coverage (EEA 31 member countries+ 6 Cooperating Countries)
-EIONET consultation (by the end of October)

6. 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%

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. Thanks for your attention!