This D Group aims to gather a community of practice interested to get to develop a common understanding on the relevance of water accounting to inform policy making and investment planning to ensure water scarcity management in agriculture. It will also be an opportunity to gain knowledge about a range of tools, approaches and issues related to applying water accounting and its interpretation. The first task of the community is to develop a joint white paper for the World Water Forum 2018 which will take place in Brazil. It will be done in a participatory way through email exchange and webinars using this platform as a supporting tool.