User-Producer Conference
Water Accounting for Integrated
Water Resource Management
UNCEEA
(New York, 19 - 21 June 2006)
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Objectives of the Conference
• Present the draft water accounting
handbook
• Seek users’ endorsement of the SEEAW as
THE hydrological framework for IWRM
• Promote the SEEAW implementation
• Establish a Roundtable on Water
Accounting under the auspices of the
UNCEEA
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Main conclusions
The Conference:
• Endorsed the SEEAW as THE hydrologicaleconomic framework for IWRM
• Recommended it become a statistical standard
• Recognized that SEEAW fills a vacuum by
developing a conceptual framework for water
• Recognized the timeliness of the handbook
• Stressed that SEEAW focuses the improvement of
basic data by allowing the identification of data gaps
and overlaps
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Main conclusions (2)
The strengths of the SEEAW
• Link with the economic system
• Mainstream of water in economic decisionmaking
• Evaluation of trade-offs and priorities
between different policies
• Integrated analyses vs sectoral analyses
• Developed by NSOs
• Rigour, reliability, independence,
consistency and regularity
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Main conclusions (3)
• SEEAW as a framework for deriving
indicators – majority of WWDR indicators
can be derived from SEEAW
• SEEAW can improve inter-institutional
cooperation
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Main conclusions (4)
• Weaknesses of SEEAW
• Does not systematically address links
with the social aspects
• Does not deal with extreme events
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Actions
• Cooperation between WWAP, GWP and
UNSD
• Training course by UNESCO-IHE
• Integrate SEEAW standard table in IWRM
programmes by World Bank (pilot projects)
• Establishment of twinning projects
• Translation in other languages by countries
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Actions
• Promotion of the SEEAW to users
• Brochure
• Presentation in International Conferences
• August 2006 UN Water- Stockholm
• Other international conferences
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Roundtable on Water Accounting
Under the auspices of SEEAW
• Objectives:
• Promotion of SEEAW
• Advancement of implementation
• Work programme
• Development of toolkits
• Country practices
• Training programmes/material
• Promotion material
• Communication tools
• Implementation
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