Abstract: In order to research the relationship between economic growth and natural resources and strengthen water resources management, with technical support of UN statistics division, the Ministry of Water Resources and National Bureau of Statistics began to research water accounting system. Water accounting system include the supply and consume tables in the physical volume, emission accounts, hybrid accounts, water resource assets accounts and water quality accounts. This article describes economic accounts and hybrid accounts, including the purpose of the compilation, compiling methods, the accounting-table models, as well as the data sources.
 

Key words: Water resources, Accounting, Hybrid accounts, Economic accounts