International Recommendations for Water Statistics

The International Recommendations for Water Statistics (IRWS) provides coherent principles, concepts and definitions for the collection and compilation of water statistics on a comparable basis. IRWS is designed to assist all countries in the establishment and strengthening of a multipurpose information system for water in support of integrated water resources management. In particular, it supports the collection, compilation and dissemination of internationally comparable water statistics in countries, as well as implementation of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting for Water (SEEA-Water).