These driving forces are depreciating the country's natural capital or stock of forest ecosystem assets, because, as forests disappear, so may the benefits that these provide in terms of regulating water run-off, reducing soil erosion, capturing and sequestering carbon, etc. Deforestation rates range from 130,000 to 500,000 ha per annum (FRA, 2010), with different sources setting the rate at 142,720 ha in 2013 (GFW, 2015) and 372,816 ha per annum between 1995 and 2010 (NAFORMA, 2014). The NAFORMA figure has been used for the analysis in this study. One way to look at this is as follows: If deforestation affects the water cycle it will have a negative impact on the value added of the hydropower or energy sector if energy generation is impaired.