Final Report Republic of Botswana BOTSWANA WATER ACCOUNTING REPORT 2014/15 April 2016 Botswana Water Accounting Report 2014/15 Table of Contents List of Tables .................................................................................................................................. 4 List of Figures ................................................................................................................................. 5 Abbreviations .................................................................................................................................. 7 1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 8 2 Main findings of the 2014-15 Water Accounts .................................................................... 10 3 Water supply industry ........................................................................................................... 18 4 Agriculture ............................................................................................................................ 20 4.1 Livestock subsector ........................................................................................................ 21 4.2 Irrigation sub-sector ....................................................................................................... 22 5 Mining ................................................................................................................................... 23 5.1 Water consumption and abstraction by the mining sector ............................................. 23 5.2 Trend in regional mining water consumption and abstraction .......................................... 24 6 Government........................................................................................................................... 26 7 Other industries and electricity generation ........................................................................... 27 7.1 Other Industries ................................................................................................................... 27 7.2 Electricity ............................................................................................................................ 29 9 Water accounting indicators and policy issues ..................................................................... 32 9.1 Water resources availability indicators .......................................................................... 32 9.2 Indicators for water use for human activities ................................................................. 34 9.3 Indicators for water costs and revenues ......................................................................... 37 9.4 Water use efficiency indicators ...................................................................................... 40 9.5 Emerging policy issues................................................................................................... 42 10 Data sources and methods ..................................................................................................... 43 2 | P a g e Botswana Water Accounting Report 2014/15 10.1 Agriculture ................................................................................................................. 43 10.1.1 Livestock ................................................................................................................. 43 10.1.2 Irrigation ................................................................................................................. 44 10.2 Mining ............................................................................................................................... 44 10.3 WUC data.......................................................................................................................... 45 10.3.1 Customer data ............................................................................................................ 45 10.3.2 WUC water abstraction and use ................................................................................. 45 10.4 SEEA-Water supply and use table .................................................................................... 45 10.5 SEEA terminology ...................................................................................................... 46 10.6 Data quality statement ................................................................................................ 46 10.6.1 Institutional environment ........................................................................................... 47 10.6.2 Relevance ................................................................................................................... 47 10.6.3 Timeliness .................................................................................................................. 48 10.6.4 Accuracy .................................................................................................................... 48 10.6.5 Coherence .................................................................................................................. 48 10.6.6 Interpretability............................................................................................................ 48 10.6.7 Accessibility ............................................................................................................... 48 10.6.8 Overall assessment ..................................................................................................... 48 10.7 Revision Policy ........................................................................................................... 49 References ..................................................................................................................................... 50 Appendix 1: Physical Supply and Use Tables for 2012-13, 2013-14 and 2014-15. ..................... 52 Appendix 2: Time series report..................................................................................................... 55 3 | P a g e Botswana Water Accounting Report 2014/15 List of Tables Table 2.1: Physical supply and use for 2014/15 (MCM) .............................................................. 11 Table 3.1: Water supply by WUC MC 2014-15 ........................................................................... 18 Table 3.2: Non-revenue water by WUC MC 2014-15 .................................................................. 19 Table 4.1: Water consumption in agriculture (2014/15; MCM) ................................................... 20 Table 5.1: Water consumption and abstraction from the mining sector (2010/11-2014/15; MCM) ....................................................................................................................................................... 23 Table 5.2: Abstraction and consumption in the mining sector (2010/11-2014/15; MCM) .......... 24 Table7.2: Use of water within the electricity sector in 2011-15 (MCM) ..................................... 29 Figure 8.1: Trend in household water consumption (2010-11 to 2014-15; MCM) ..................... 30 Figure 8.2: Household Water Consumption by Region (2014-15; MCM) ................................... 31 Figure 8.3: Long term trend in household water consumption (1990-2015; MCM) .................... 31 Table 9.1: Policy indicators for water availability of reservoirs ................................................... 33 Table 9.2: Water use indicators. ................................................................................................... 34 Table 9.3: WUC Water Tariffs (effective 01 April 2015) ............................................................ 37 Table 9.4: Indicators for water costs and revenues in the public sector ....................................... 40 Table 9.5: Value added and employment creation per unit of water (2010-11 to 2014-15) ......... 41 Table 9.6: Estimated water losses by WUC (as % of abstraction & imports) .............................. 41 Table 10.1: Livestock standard daily water consumption ............................................................ 43 4 | P a g e Botswana Water Accounting Report 2014/15 List of Figures Figure 2.1: Diagram of physical water supply and use in Botswana, 2014-15 (MCM) ............... 12 Figure 2.2: Long term time series for water consumption within selected sectors (MCM) ......... 13 Figure 2.3: Water consumption by economic sector, 2013-14 and 2014-15 (MCM) ................... 14 Figure 2.4: Water productivity by economic sectors (VA in constant 2006 BWP/m3; 2014-15) ....................................................................................................................................................... 15 Figure 2.5: Share in GDP and water consumption (average for period 2010-11 to 2014-15) ...... 16 Map 1: Water consumption by WUC Management Centers ........................................................ 17 Figure 4.1: Trend in livestock water consumption (1990 – 2015; MCM) .................................... 21 Figure 4.2: Livestock water consumption by Management Centre (2013-14; MCM) ................. 22 Figure 5.1: Trend in water abstraction and Consumption by the mining sector (2010/11 to 2014/15; MCM) ............................................................................................................................ 24 Figure 5.2: Water abstraction and consumption by the mining sector by MC (2014/15; MCM). 25 Figure