Similar to fish extraction, Box 1 is used to estimate the resource rent for water abstraction from
UK freshwaters from 2008 to 2012. The data for Gross Operating Surplus (GOS) in the standard
industrial classification “water collection, treatment and supply” are used to estimate the resource
rent for water abstraction for Public Water Supply purposes. To calculate the user cost of the
produced assets, the data for net capital stock and consumption of fixed capital for the standard
industrial classification “water collection, treatment and supply” are taken from ONS. The user cost
of produced asset for each year is deducted from the GOS to derive the resource rent for water
abstraction for each year from 2008 to 2012.