Economic analysis

Last update: 2026-05-08

Purpose and overview

The document revises the Economic Analysis & Services classes used in the 3rd cycle of reporting of the Water Framework Directive River Basin Management Plans (Figure 102) and presents a proposal for the electronic reporting in the 4th cycle.

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        + article9FloodProtection: YesNoCode_Enum
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    Service --> RBMPPoM: 1..*
    

Figure 102 Partial diagram for Economic Analysis and Water Services (RBMPPoM_2022) schema - 3rd cycle

Proposed structure - 4th cycle

For the 4th cycle of reporting, the requested information detailed in (see also Figure 103):

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CostRecovery "1" -- "n" VolumeRevenueCostPerService

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Figure 103 WFD Economic Analysis dataflow - 4th cycle

• The former questionnaire in the EconomicAnalysis class is removed.

• The questionnaires in the new CostRecovery and CostRecoveryPerService tables maintains the same simplified Yes/No approach and requests information only for three collective services (drinking water supply services, irrigation water supply services and wastewater collection and treatment services).

• The Service table is removed. Information about volumes, revenues and costs is requested in the VolumeRevenueCostPerService table, using the standard structure for statistical data commonly used by Eurostat.

Descriptive data - 4th cycle

CostRecovery table

The questionnaire in the CostRecovery table requests information at River Basin District level. See Figure 104 and Table 61.

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    + adequateContributionSectoral: YesNo

    «polluter-pays-principle»

    + pppAccount: YesNo
    + pppERCBased: YesNo
    + pppTargetPolluters: YesNo 

    «incentives»
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Figure 104 CostRecovery table - 4th cycle

Table 61 Questionnaire about CostRecovery - 4th cycle

Column	Definition
euRBDCode	Identifier of the River Basin District
adequateContributionAccount	Is there an account of adequate contribution to service costs?
adequateContributionSectoral	Is such an account based on sectoral cost recovery rates?
pppAccount	Is there an account of the application of the Polluter Pays Principle (PPP)?
pppERCBased	Is the account based on estimates of Environmental & Resource Costs (ERC)?
pppTargetPolluters	Does the account describe how charges target relevant polluters?
incentivesAccount	Is there an account of adequate incentives of the pricing instruments?
incentivesEmpiricalInformation	Is the account based on empirical information on tariff schemes?
incentivesDifferentiated	If incentivesEmpiricalInformation = ‘Yes’, is the information differentiated over sectors or services?
incentivesWaterScarcityUse	Is there information on economic instruments used for water scarcity?

CostRecoveryPerService table

The questionnaire in the CostRecoveryPerService table maintains the same simplified Yes/No approach and requests information only for three collective services (drinking water supply services, irrigation water supply services and wastewater collection and treatment services). See Figure 105 and Table 62.

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Figure 105 CostRecoveryPerService table - 4th cycle

Table 62 Questionnaire about CostRecoveryPerService - 4th cycle

Column	Definition
euRBDCode	Identifier of the River Basin District
waterService	Information is requested for each of the following services: ‘irrigationWaterService’, ‘drinkingWaterService’, ‘sewerageService’.
costRecoveryFull	Does the RBMP report whether cost recovery is (nearly) full? Note: the option ‘notApplicable’ is only valid for waterService = ‘irrigationWaterService’ (if that service does not exist in the River Basin District).
costRecoveryCorroborated	Is the extent of cost recovery corroborated with rate calculations?
nationalMethodologyApplied	Is there a national methodology applied in these calculations?
justificationCostRecovery	If costRecoveryFull = ‘no’, is there a justification based on mitigation factors (Art 9(1))?
justificationFactor	If justificationCostRecovery = ‘yes’, report the mitigation factors.
justificationSectoralInfo	If justificationCostRecovery = ‘yes’, does this justification use sectoral information?
article94Exemption	Does the RBMP mention the “established practices” exemption (Art 9(4))?
article94Justification	If article94Exemption = ‘yes’, is there a justification for this exemption?

Data at water service level - overview

The data structure was simplified to a core set of quantitative data for a limited number of water services and water user sectors. The purpose is to obtain a consistent overview across Europe, at river basin district level.

Information is requested:

• about the physical volumes of water, the revenues and the costs

• for three water user sectors – agriculture, industry and households (see Table 63)

• and for three water services – public drinking water supply services, public irrigation water supply services and sewerage services (see Table 64).

Table 63 Concepts and definitions applicable to water user sectors – 4th cycle

Water user sector	Definition	Notes
AGRICULTURE	Includes: NACE 01 – Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities Excludes: NACE 02 – Forestry and logging NACE 03 – Fishing and aquaculture
MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY	Includes: NACE 10–33 – Manufacturing industry (NACE Section C) Excludes: NACE 05–09 – Mining and quarrying NACE 35 – Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply NACE 36 – Water collection, treatment and supply NACE 37 – Sewerage NACE 38 – Waste collection, recovery and disposal activities; waste management and remediation activities NACE 39 – Remediation activities and other waste management service activities NACE 41–43 – Construction	By definition, the volume of water abstraction by the MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY (NACE 10–33) sector for self‑supply excludes water abstraction by NACE 36 entities. For the 4th cycle of electronic reporting under the WFD, the volume of water use by the MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY sector refers only to drinking water provided via public water supply (V52).
HOUSEHOLDS	Aligned with the OECD/Eurostat Joint Questionnaire on Inland Waters, the term “Households” refers to the resident population as final users of supplied water and generators of domestic wastewater. Households are consumption units, not economic production units, hence there is no applicable NACE code.

Table 64 Concepts and definitions applicable to water services – 4th cycle

Water service	Definition	Notes
DRINKING WATER SERVICE	Water supplied by economic units engaged in collection, purification and distribution of water, i.e. under NACE Code 36.00 (Water collection, treatment and supply). The term “public” means publicly accessible service – provided either by public or private operators – not “public sector”. The term “Public water supply” is equivalent to collective water supply.	For the purposes of the 4th cycle of electronic reporting, note the restriction to “drinking water supply”. Synonyms: • PUBLIC DRINKING WATER SUPPLY • COLLECTIVE DRINKING WATER SUPPLY
IRRIGATION WATER SERVICE	Same as above.	For the purposes of the 4th cycle of electronic reporting, note the restriction to “irrigation water supply”. Synonyms: • PUBLIC IRRIGATION WATER SUPPLY • COLLECTIVE IRRIGATION WATER SUPPLY
SEWERAGE SERVICE	Wastewater collection, treatment and discharge services provided by economic units under NACE Code 37.00 (Sewerage). Operation of sewer systems or sewage treatment facilities; collecting and transporting of human or industrial wastewater from one or several users, as well as rain water by means of sewerage networks, collectors, tanks and other means of transport (sewage vehicles etc.); emptying and cleaning of cesspools and septic tanks, sinks and pits from sewage; and treating wastewater (physical, chemical and biological processes like dilution, screening, filtering, sedimentation, etc.).	For the purposes of the 4th cycle of electronic reporting, note the restriction to the treatment of urban wastewater. Synonyms: • SANITARY SERVICE • COLLECTION, TREATMENT AND DISCHARGE OF URBAN WASTE WATER

Table 65 Overview diagram for the requested data on volumes, revenues and costs - 4th cycle

a)	b) and c)
a) physical volumes of water The following flows are quantified: volume of water abstraction from the environment (e.g. for self-supply and for public water supply), volume of water supplied by public water services, and volume of wastewater discharged to the environment by public water services. The flows represented by grey arrows in the diagram are not required (water returned without use, e.g. due to evaporation or losses during transport, reused/recycled water supplied back to the water user sectors, direct discharges by the water user sectors). Note that the gross freshwater abstraction includes only water abstracted from inland surface and groundwater bodies – desalinated water and water imports are not quantified. The requested data are the estimated average annual volumes in million cubic metre, over a specified reference period, in the river basin district.	b) revenues For the volumes in a), the revenues are quantified: from water abstraction (e.g. from environmental charges paid to the general government institutional sector as resource taxes), from water supply (e.g. from volumetric service fees paid to the Water collection, treatment and supply (NACE 36.00) sector) from wastewater collection and treatment (for example, from volumetric service fees paid to the Sewerage (NACE 37.00) sector) and revenues from discharges to the environment, including emissions to water (for example, from environmental charges paid to the general government, which in this case may include pollution taxes). The requested data are the estimated average annual total revenue in million units of the national currency, in the river basin district, for the volumes quantified in a). c) costs For the provision of the services quantified in b), the total costs are to be quantified, distinguishing between CAPEX and OPEX.

The requested data on water volumes is detailed in Figure 106. The relevant concepts are aligned with the OECD/Eurostat Joint Questionnaire on Inland Waters and the Eurostat Regional Water Questionnaire and defined in Table 66.

Figure 106 Conceptual diagram for the requested data on volumes - 4th cycle

Table 66 Concepts and definitions for requested data on volumes – 4th cycle of reporting.

Diagram	Concept	Relevant concepts	Notes
V1, V2, V3	Water abstraction – for self‑supply	“Self‑supply” refers to the abstraction of water directly by the user for their own final use, rather than obtaining water from a public water supplier or another user. Self‑supply occurs when an entity (e.g., a farm, industrial facility, household, or institution) withdraws water from the environment – such as from a well, borehole, river, lake, or spring – to meet its own operational or domestic needs. It is reported separately from “public water supply” and “other supply” in the OECD/Eurostat Joint Questionnaire.	The volumes are reported in the river basin district where the point of abstraction is located.
V4	Water abstraction – for other water supply - irrigation water	Volume of water abstracted for the purpose of collective irrigation water supply. Note that the balance condition V4 ≈ V41 is not expected to hold, due to losses during transport and water returned without use (which result in V4 > V41) or due to transfers between river basin districts (which may result in V41 > V4).	The volumes are reported in the river basin district where the point of abstraction is located.
V41	Water use – from other water supply - irrigation water	To maintain alignment with the OECD/Eurostat Joint Questionnaire, “Other water supply - irrigation water” refers to the portion of water supplied to agriculture that is not counted under either “self‑supply” or “public water supply”. This includes all irrigation systems operations that are not individual (on‑farm) irrigation systems, and may also include some water originating from self‑supply that is subsequently distributed to other users. See Table 63 for the definition of the water user sector Agriculture.	The volumes are reported in the river basin district where the point of use/consumption is located.
V5	Water abstraction – for public water supply - drinking water	Volume of water abstracted for the purpose of collective drinking water supply. Note that the balance condition V5 ≈ V52 + V53 is not expected to hold, due to losses and transfers, including cases where the user/consumer is outside the river basin district where the water is abstracted.	The volumes are reported in the river basin district where the point of abstraction is located.
V52, V53	Water use – from public water supply - drinking water	Water supplied by economic units engaged in collection, purification and distribution of water. “Public” means publicly accessible service — provided either by public or private operators — not “public sector”. “Public water supply” = “drinking water supply”. See Table 63 for the definition of the water user sectors: Manufacturing Industry (V52) and Households (V53). Excludes: – Non‑drinking water (i.e. unsafe for human consumption) – Treatment of wastewater done solely to prevent pollution – Operation of systems for agricultural irrigation (e.g., irrigation canals) — this falls under “Other supply” in the OECD/Eurostat Joint Questionnaire and under “Other water supply – irrigation water” in the 4th cycle of WFD reporting – Deliveries of water from one public supplier to another (to avoid double counting)	Note that the desalination of marine water to produce water as the principal product is included in the Public Water Supply definition and reporting under the OECD/Eurostat Joint Questionnaire (see ABS_PWS). However, for the 4th cycle of electronic reporting under the WFD, the volumes reported for ‘Water use - from public water supply - drinking water’ (see V52 and V53) do not include desalinated water.
V6	Water returns – Discharge of treated effluents	The volume of wastewater that has undergone a treatment process in an urban wastewater treatment plant (UWWTP) and is subsequently released back into the environment — typically into rivers, lakes, transitional waters, coastal waters, or infiltrated into the soil or groundwater. This return flow is measured after the application of the highest treatment level that the wastewater receives. Note the restriction to urban wastewater, defined as the mix of domestic wastewater, urban run‑off, and non‑domestic wastewater collected in sewerage networks and conveyed to treatment plants. It includes wastewater from households and services, stormwater entering combined sewers, and wastewater from other urban sources discharged into the public sewer system.	The volumes are reported in the river basin district where the point of discharge is located.
V62, V63	Sewerage – Collection and treatment of wastewater	See Table 63 for the definition of the water user sector Manufacturing Industry (for V62) and Households (for V63). The following definitions from the OECD/Eurostat Joint Questionnaire are relevant for the correct apportionment of the volume reported under V6: – “Treatment in UWWTPs – Total inflow” (TRT_URB_IF) – “Generation of Wastewater – Manufacturing Industry” (GEN_MAN) – “Generation of Wastewater – Private Households” (GEN_HH) Total inflow refers to the total volume of wastewater entering wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). This includes all wastewater collected and conveyed to the plant before any treatment is applied. – It covers inflows to urban wastewater treatment plants (UWWTPs) as well as other WWTPs. – It also includes wastewater transported periodically by trucks from independent storage tanks to UWWTPs. – Inflow volume is reported prior to determining the treatment level (primary, secondary, or tertiary).	The volumes are reported as an apportionment of the volume of treated effluents discharged in the river basin district.

Adapted from [1].

All the information is requested at river basin district level and must refer to the same reference year, preferably close to the programming period.

The following generic guidelines apply to the reporting of volumes:

• Volumes related to water abstraction (V1, V2, V3, V4, V5 in Figure 106) are reported based on the location of the point of abstraction. Only abstractions from freshwater surface water bodies (rivers and lakes, including reservoirs) and groundwater bodies are considered.

• Volumes related to water use (V41, V52, V53 in Figure 106) are reported based on the location of the point of use/consumption. In other words, the volumes refer to water used in the river basin district.

• Volumes related to water returns (V6 in Figure 106) are reported based on the location of the point of wastewater discharge. This includes discharges also to transitional and coastal water bodies located in the river basin district.

Given the guidelines above, and the fact that the data is requested at river basin district level (RBD), the following corollaries apply:

• The balance condition V4 ≈ V41 is not expected to hold, due to losses during transport and water returned without use (which result in V4 > V41) or due to transfers between river basin districts (which may result in V41 > V4).

• The balance condition V5 ≈ V52 + V53 is not expected to hold, again due to losses and transfers between river basin districts, including the cases where the user/consumer is outside the river basin district where the water is abstracted.

• Note that V62 and V63 refer to the volume of wastewater collected and treated by the sanitary services, and not to the amount of wastewater generated by the manufacturing industry and household sectors. Note also that the condition V62 + V63 ⪅ V6 is expected to hold, because V62 and V63 represent a partial apportionment of V6, i.e. of the total volume of treated effluents discharged in the river basin district. The equality V62 + V63 ≈ V6 is not expected to hold (it would only hold if the contribution both of urban run‑off and wastewater from other water user sectors were negligible).

• Finally, the condition V52 + V53 ≈ V62 + V63 is not expected to hold if the discharges include a significant amount of wastewater collected from users located outside the basin.

The requested data on revenues is detailed in Figure 107. The information must refer to the same year and to the same totals reported for the volumes of water.

The following generic guidelines apply to the reporting of revenues:

• Water abstraction revenues (R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 in Figure 107) must include all environmental/resource taxes and administrative fees paid (directly or indirectly) to the general government.

• Water supply revenues (R41, R52, R53 in Figure 107) represent the gross revenue of the irrigation water service providers and the drinking water service providers from fees charged to the end‑user sector (agriculture, manufacturing industry and households). The gross revenue must include the base service fee plus any environmental or resource costs incurred during abstraction that are passed through to the consumer to ensure an adequate contribution from that sector.

• Wastewater discharges revenues (R6 in Figure 107) must include all environmental taxes and pollution levies paid directly or indirectly to the government for the emission of pollutants back into the environment.

• Sewerage services revenues (R62 and R63 in Figure 107) represent gross revenue for wastewater collection and treatment services. The revenue must include the service fees charged to users plus any internalised environmental charges related to the final discharge that are passed on to the households or industrial users.

Figure 107 Conceptual diagram for the requested data on revenues - 4th cycle

Regarding the costs, the data is again requested for the same year for which volumes and revenues are reported. The total costs, OPEX and CAPEX should be reported for each of the three services in Figure 107, as well as the estimated global cost recovery rate.

The following generic guidelines apply to the reporting of costs:

• Grant‑financed assets should be included in capital expenditure (CAPEX) estimates for the water service that acquires and owns the asset, and regardless of the source of funding [2].

• Environmental taxes should be included in the current expenditure (OPEX) estimates for the water services [3].

VolumeRevenueCostPerService table

Figure 108 presents the standardised structure for the reporting of volumes, revenues and costs per water service, using the ServiceVolumeRevenueCost table. The column names reflect the SDMX designations (geo, time, dimension, obs_value, obs_unit, obs_status, obs_comment) typically used by Eurostat.

• Volumes must be reported in million cubic metre, revenues and costs must be reported in million units of national currency (except for the cost recovery rate, which is reported as a percentage).

• The dimension codes for the reporting of costs per water service are presented in Table 67.

• The dimension codes for the reporting of volumes and revenues are presented in Table 68.

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Figure 108 VolumeRevenueCostPerService table - volume, revenue and costs per water service – 4th cycle

Table 67 Dimension codes for the reporting of costs per water service – 4th cycle

Dimension	Description
CST_IRR_TOT	Irrigation water services – Total cost
CST_IRR_CAP	Irrigation water services – Capital expenditure
CST_IRR_OPE	Irrigation water services – Operational expenditure
CST_IRR_CRR	Irrigation water services – Cost recovery rate
CST_DRI_TOT	Drinking water services – Total cost
CST_DRI_CAP	Drinking water services – Capital expenditure
CST_DRI_OPE	Drinking water services – Operational expenditure
CST_DRI_CRR	Drinking water services – Cost recovery rate
CST_WWT_TOT	Sewerage services – Total cost
CST_WWT_CAP	Sewerage services – Capital expenditure
CST_WWT_OPE	Sewerage services – Operational expenditure
CST_WWT_CRR	Sewerage services – Cost recovery rate

Table 68 Dimension codes for the reporting of volumes and revenues - 4th cycle

Diagram [4]	Dimension	Description	From	To
V1	VOL_ABS_SS_AGR_IR	Volume – Water abstraction – self‑supply for the agriculture sector	Environment (inland waters)	Agriculture (NACE 01)
V2	VOL_ABS_SS_IND_C	Volume – Water abstraction – for self‑supply for the manufacturing industry sector	Environment (inland waters)	Manufacturing industry (NACE 10–33)
V3	VOL_ABS_SS_HH	Volume – Water abstraction – for self‑supply for households	Environment (inland waters)	Households
V4	VOL_ABS_OS_AGR_IR	Volume – Water abstraction – for other water supply of irrigation water	Environment (inland waters)	Water collection, treatment and supply (NACE 36)
V5	VOL_ABS_PWS_DRI	Volume – Water abstraction – for public water supply of drinking water	Environment (inland waters)	Water collection, treatment and supply (NACE 36)
V41	VOL_USE_OS_AGR_IR	Volume – Water use – for other water supply of irrigation water	Water collection, treatment and supply (NACE 36)	Agriculture (NACE 01)
V52	VOL_USE_PWS_DRI_IND_C	Volume – Water use – from public water supply of drinking water to the manufacturing industry sector	Water collection, treatment and supply (NACE 36)	Manufacturing industry (NACE 10–33)
V53	VOL_USE_PWS_DRI_HH	Volume – Water use – from public water supply of drinking water to households	Water collection, treatment and supply (NACE 36)	Households
V62	VOL_WWT_IND_C	Volume – Sewerage – Collection and treatment of wastewater from the manufacturing industry	Manufacturing industry (NACE 10–33)	Sewerage (NACE 37)
V63	VOL_WWT_HH	Volume – Sewerage – Collection and treatment of wastewater from households	Households	Sewerage (NACE 37)
V6	VOL_DIS_TWW	Volume – Water returns – Discharge of treated effluents	Sewerage (NACE 37)	Environment
R1	REV_ABS_SS_AGR_IR	Revenue – Water abstraction – from self‑supply for the agriculture sector	Agriculture (NACE 01)	General government*
R2	REV_ABS_SS_IND_C	Revenue – Water abstraction – from self‑supply for the manufacturing industry sector	Manufacturing industry (NACE 10–33)	General government*
R3	REV_ABS_SS_HH	Revenue – Water abstraction – from self‑supply for households	Households	General government*
R4	REV_ABS_OS_AGR_IR	Revenue – Water abstraction – from other water supply of irrigation water	Water collection, treatment and supply (NACE 36)	General government*
R5	REV_ABS_PWS_DRI	Revenue – Water abstraction – from public water supply of drinking water	Water collection, treatment and supply (NACE 36)	General government*
R41	REV_USE_OS_AGR_IR	Revenue – Water use – from other water supply of irrigation water	Agriculture (NACE 01)	Water collection, treatment and supply (NACE 36)
R52	REV_USE_PWS_DRI_IND_C	Revenue – Water use – from public water supply of drinking water to the manufacturing industry sector	Manufacturing industry (NACE 10–33)	Water collection, treatment and supply (NACE 36)
R53	REV_USE_PWS_DRI_HH	Revenue – Water use – from public water supply of drinking water to households	Households	Water collection, treatment and supply (NACE 36)
R62	REV_WWT_IND_C	Revenue – Sewerage – from collection and treatment of wastewater from the manufacturing industry	Manufacturing industry (NACE 10–33)	Sewerage (NACE 37)
R63	REV_WWT_HH	Revenue – Sewerage – from collection and treatment of wastewater from households	Households	Sewerage (NACE 37)
R6	REV_DIS_TWW	Revenue – Water returns – Discharge of treated effluents	Sewerage (NACE 37)	General government [5]

Documents dataset - 4th cycle

The Documents dataset follows the standard structure used in various WISE dataflows (Figure 109):

• The dcMetadata table provides the basic Dublin Core metadata elements about the delivery.

  • If required by the data providers, the licenseDocument attribute allow the provision of additional information about the dataset.

  • The dcMetadata table also functions as a “manifest file” explaining if the delivery contains data for a given river basin district or not.

• The Document table allows the upload of documents (for example, PDFs) or the provision of a hyperlink to a document stored in a publicly accessible national web site.

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Figure 109 WFD EconomicAnalysis dataflow - 4th cycle - Documents

The following criteria apply:

1. The dcMetadata table must contain one and only one record for each of the country’s river basin districts, identified by the euRBDCode.

2. The descriptive dataset tables are national, but the quality control will allow deliveries where some of the river basin districts have includesDescriptiveData = no.

Annexes - Ancillary data sources

Information about annual volumes is reported voluntarily by MS under the OECD/Eurostat Joint Questionnaire on Inland Waters and Eurostat Regional Water Questionnaire [6] [7]. Although the questionnaires have a much higher level of detail than required for the 4th cycle of electronic reporting, it is important that MS provide consistent data, which may allow more detailed analysis to be performed if necessary.

Table 69, Table 70 and Table 71 provide an overview of some of the OECD/Eurostat Joint Questionnaire tables and dimensions that are directly related to the data requested for the WFD 4th cycle of reporting.

Table 69 Annual freshwater abstraction by source (dimension 1) and by sector (dimension 2).

Dimension 1	Dimension 2	Description
FSW	ABST	Fresh surface water total gross abstraction (NACE 01–99)
FSW	ABS_PWS	→ by Public water supply
FSW	ABS_AGR	→ by Agriculture, forestry, fishing (NACE 01–03)
FSW	ABS_AGR_IR	→ → of which for irrigation
FSW	ABS_IND	→ by Manufacturing industry (NACE 10–33)
FSW	ABS_HH	→ by Private households
FGW	ABST	Fresh groundwater total gross abstraction (NACE 01–99)
FGW	ABS_PWS	→ by Public water supply
FGW	ABS_AGR	→ by Agriculture, forestry, fishing (NACE 01–03)
FGW	ABS_AGR_IR	→ → of which for irrigation
FGW	ABS_IND	→ by Manufacturing industry (NACE 10–33)
FGW	ABS_HH	→ by Private households

Table 70 Water use by supply category (dimension 1) and by sector (dimension 2).

Dimension 1	Dimension 2	Description
PWS	TOTAL_HH	Public water supply – TOTAL (NACE 01–99)
PWS	A	→ Agriculture, forestry, fishing (NACE 01–03)
PWS	C	→ Manufacturing industry (NACE 10–33)
PWS	EP_HH	→ Private households
SOWS	TOTAL_HH	Self and other water supply – TOTAL (NACE 01–99)
SOWS	A	→ Agriculture, forestry, fishing (NACE 01–03)
SOWS	C	→ Manufacturing industry (NACE 10–33)
SOWS	EP_HH	→ Private households

Table 71 Generation, treatment and discharges of wastewater: volumes (dimension 1).

Dimension 1	Dimension 2	Description
VOL_WW	GEN_PS	GENERATION OF WASTEWATER – POINT SOURCES – Total (NACE 01–99)
VOL_WW	GEN_AGR	Agriculture, forestry, fishing (NACE 01–03)
VOL_WW	GEN_IND	Industry – total (NACE 05–43)
VOL_WW	GEN_MAN	→ Manufacturing industry (NACE 10–33)
VOL_WW	GEN_DOM	Domestic sources – total
VOL_WW	GEN_HH	→ Private households
VOL_WW	GEN_URB	Urban wastewater – total generated
VOL_WW	TRT_URB_IF	Treatment in WWTPs – total inflow
VOL_WW	GEN_IND_XURB	Industrial wastewater (not part of Urban WWV) – total generated
VOL_WW	DIS_IND_IW	→ Discharges to inland waters – Total
VOL_WW	DIS_IND_IW_AT	→ → of which: Discharges to inland waters after treatment
VOL_WW	DIS_IND_IW_NT	→ → of which: Discharges to inland waters without treatment
VOL_WW	DIS	Total discharges of WWTPs (urban and other) – after treatment

References

Warning

The original document containing this revised model can still be downloaded but should no longer be used. See PROPOSAL - Version 2026.02.20 PDF

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[1]

Eurostat and OECD. Data Collection Manual for the OECD/Eurostat Joint Questionnaire on Inland Waters and Eurostat Regional Water Questionnaire. Eurostat, Luxembourg, version 5 edition, 2024.

[2]

According to Eurostat’s methodological frameworks, specifically the Environmental Protection Expenditure Accounts (EPEA) and the European System of Accounts (ESA 2010), grant-financed assets should be included in capital expenditure (CAPEX) estimates for the sector that acquires and owns the asset. In Eurostat statistics, CAPEX is primarily measured as Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF). GFCF consists of resident producers’ acquisitions, less disposals, of fixed assets during a given period. The recording of an asset’s acquisition in GFCF is based on the change of ownership and the total value of the asset at the time of purchase. It does not depend on whether the purchase was funded through internal cash flow, loans, or external grants.

[3]

Current expenditure includes intermediate consumption (goods and services used in production), compensation of employees, and other taxes on production. Taxes such as those on water abstraction or pollution discharges are considered “taxes on production” because they are unrequited payments to the government linked to the ongoing activity of the utility.

[4]

Codes used in the diagrams of Figure 106 and Figure 107.

[5]

Includes both direct and indirect payments to the general government institutional sector. May also include payments to private sector owners.

[6]

See https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/metadata/en/env_nwat_esms.htm

[7]

See https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/metadata/en/env_rwat_esms.htm