The document summarizes key elements of a water profile for the Canadian forest products industry, including: 1) Forest and forest management operations account for the vast majority of water usage, though precise estimates are challenging given the industry's broad landscape. 2) Pulp and paper manufacturing accounts for most industrial water usage, estimated through mass balance calculations, with over 90% of water inputs returned to surface water systems. 3) The entire Canadian forest products industry uses approximately 0.3% of the total freshwater produced annually through managed forests.

1. ncasiThe Value of Current Knowledge – A Case Study of the Forest Products Industry Water ProfileCanadian Water SummitJune 17, 2010 (Toronto, ON)Kirsten ViceVice President, NCASI

2. MotivationAccess to water increasingly controlled

3. FPI large user of fresh water

4. Information gaps for stakeholders

5. Water Profiles provide holistic overview of interconnections between water resources and forest products industry operationsElements of Water Profile Forest and Forest Management

6. P&P and WP Manufacturing

7. Effects of Effluents on the Ecology of Surface Waters

8. Canadian Industry Water Profile

9. Forest and Forest ManagementThe Challenge: to estimate therelationship between forest management areas and water resources (precipitation and hydrology) across a vast landscape.Forest and Forest ManagementForest and Forest Management

10. Forest Management ElementsPrecipitation – all water thatenters the system not lost toimmediate evaporation- Rainfall

11. Forest Management ElementsPrecipitation – all water thatenters the system not lost toimmediate evaporation.- Rainfall Fog interceptionForest Management ElementsPrecipitation – all water thatenters the system not lost toimmediate evaporation.- Rainfall Fog interception

12. Snow (and melt)Forest Management ElementsAssumes constant water-tablePrecipitation – all water thatenters the system not lost toimmediate evaporation.- Rainfall Fog interception

13. Snow (and melt)Runoff – all water thatleaves the system via surfaceor subsurface flow

14. Forest Management ElementsAETPrecipitation – all water thatenters the system not lost toimmediate evaporation.- Rainfall Fog interception

15. Snow (and melt)Runoff – all water thatleaves the system via surfaceor subsurface flow.Annual Evapotranspiration –calculated by subtractingrunoff from total precipitationAET = Precipitation - Runoff

16. Forest and Forest ManagementAssumptions: an ecozone-based approachMajority (>98%) of forestry occurs in nine ecozones (probably)Forested areas are unequally distributed among ecozones (true)Forestry operations are equally distributed among forested areas within ecozones (untrue – Boreal Shield has ~50% of forestry operations)Mean precipitation levels can be estimated across entire ecozones (??)

17. Forest and Forest Management

18. Manufacturing Element: ConceptsWater use:Total amount of water used for process and cooling needsPortion of water removed from a water source that is not immediately returned to the water source (e.g., evaporative losses)Water consumption:Water Evaporated (WE)Water Intake (WI)Water in Purchased Chemicals (WCH)ManufacturingWater in Raw Materials (WRM)Water SourceFinal Effluent (FE)Water in Final Product(WFP)Water in Residuals (WR)