Towards IRWS
The International Recommendations for Water Statistics (IRWS) are being developed to assist countries in the establishment and strengthening of an information system for water in support of integrated water resources management. In particular, the draft international recommendations for water statistics: (a) support the collection, compilation and dissemination of internationally comparable water statistics in countries; (b) support the implementation of SEEAW; and (c) provide the necessary information for deriving coherent and consistent indicators over time and across countries.
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The draft IRWS is organized into two main parts: Part I forms the international recommendations and provides the main concepts on water statistics, including definitions and classifications of statistical units related to water and a list of recommended data items that countries are encouraged to compile; Part II provides guidance on the collection and compilation of the water statistics. A number of annexes provide additional reference information in particular on supplementary data items, links of the data items with the SEEAW standard tables and links of the data items with commonly used water related indicators.
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The structure of the IRWS is the following:
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Introduction
Part I
Chapter I - Scope of water statistics
Chapter II - Main concepts and frameworks
Chapter III - Statistical units and classifications
Chapter IV - Water data items
Part II
Chapter V - Data collection strategy
Chapter VI - Data sources and methods
Chapter VII - Metadata and data quality
Chapter VIII - Data dissemination
Annexes
Annex I: List of recommended data items
Annex II: List of supplementary data items
Annex III: Links of recommended data items with the SEEAW
Annex IV: Indicators and the links of recommended data items to the WWDR Indicators
Annex V: Measurement units and conversions
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