An economic analysis of water use in the Scotland river basin district

An economic analysis of water use in the Scotland river basin district

SUMMARY REPORT

Contents

	Foreword
	Executive Summary
1.	Introduction
1.1	Purpose
1.2	Overview
1.3	The Scotland river basin district
1.4	Summary of the roles of economics in the Water Framework Directive
1.5	Water usage
2.	Results of economic analysis
2.1	Background
2.2	Summary of current analysis of use
2.3	Economic sectors and their water use
2.4	Amenity and recreation
3.	Economics of water use and pressures on water bodies
3.1	Point source discharges
3.2	Diffuse source discharges
3.3	Abstraction and impoundment
3.4	Alterations to physical habitats
4.	Cost recovery
4.1	Summary of the extent of cost-recovery in Scotland:
4.1.1	Direct costs
4.1.2	Recovery of environmental and opportunity costs
5.	How pressures on water use are predicted to change over time (dynamics)
6.	Further work
7.	Annexes
	Annex 1 Stakeholder Input
	Water Framework Directive: Economic Assessment of Water Use Agriculture Sector: NFU Scotland
	The Federation of Scottish Aquaculture Producers Sector Report 2004
	Opencast Coal Mining Industry in Scotland Sectoral Study Paper
	Scotch Whisky Distilling Industry Sector Report
	Scottish Leather Sector Sector report
	Report on the Current and Future Significance of Water to the Paper Manufacturing Sector in Scotland
	Hydropower Scotland
	Economic Analysis for Scotland: Case Study from British Waterways