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Water accounts - supply and use

<p style='margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;'>Water flow accounts describe flows of water, in physical units, encompassing the initial abstraction of water resources from the environment into the economy, to the water flows within the economy in the form of supply and use by industries and households, and finally, flows of water back to the environment.</span></p> <p style='margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p style='margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;'>Physical supply and use tables can be compiled at various levels of detail, depending on the required policy and analytical focus and data availability. A basic PSUT for water contains information on the supply and use of water and provides an overview of water flows. The PSUT is divided into five sections which organize information on (a) abstraction of water from the environment; (b) distribution and use of abstracted water across enterprises and households; (c) flows of wastewater and reused water (between households and enterprises); (d) return flows of water to the environment; and (e) evaporation, transpiration and water incorporated into products.</span></p> <p style='margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p style='margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;'>Data source(s)</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;'>: Joint OECD/Eurostat questionnaire on Inland Waters. Data for non-OECD countries is sourced from UNSD (</span><a href="https://unstats.un.org/unsd/envstats/country_files"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;'>https://unstats.un.org/unsd/envstats/country_files</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;'>)</span></p> <p style='margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p style='margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;'>Contact</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;'>:&nbsp;</span><a href="mailto:ENV.Stat@oecd.org"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;'>ENV.Stat@oecd.org</span></a></p> <p style='margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p style='margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;'>Dataset release date</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;'>: April 15, 2026</span></p> <p style='margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style='font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;'><a href="https://webfs-env.oecd.org/files/WATER%20PHYSICAL%20SUPPLY%20AND%20USE%20TABLES%20METADATA.pdf"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;'>Database documentation</span></a></span></p>