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de l ’Eau des Organismes
PARIS de Bassin

Ways of improvement

Nantes
2015

Daniel VALENSUELA

Deputy Director
International Office for Water

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 Key pillars of WRM
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 Use IWRM approach and principles

 Legislative framework

 Organise at all relevant basin levels

 Based on integrated information systems

 Based on management plans or master plans or

strategic plan driving Programs of Measures

 Use “polluter-pays” + “user-pays” + “water pays water”

principles for a solid financing system
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 Master plan, strategic plan
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 Based on management plans or master plans or

strategies that define the medium and long-term
objectives to be achieved

 National strategy
 Basin master plans

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 Steps for Elaboration of stragic Plan
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Fig 1. Output structure

Output 9 Capacity building

Output 4.
WRM
Awareness political will

Issues 20..
Challenges
Output 7. Output 10. National
Output 3. Output 5. IWRM Project IWRM
Knowledge WRM Action Plan Portfolio & Plan
Functions prepared Financing Strategy
Output 8. plan
Endorsed
Output 6.
Potential &
Constraints

Output 8 Framework for participation SH

Joburg recommendation
National IWRM Plan 4
 Steps for Elaboration of stragic Plan
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de l ’Eau des Organismes
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Fig 1. Output structure

Output 9 Capacity building

?
Output 4.
WRM
Awareness political will

And what next

Issues 20..
Challenges
Output 7. Output 10. National
Output 3. Output 5. IWRM Project IWRM
Knowledge WRM Action Plan Portfolio & Plan
Functions prepared Financing Strategy
Output 8. plan
Endorsed
Output 6.
Potential &
Constraints

Output 8 Framework for participation SH

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 2005 Implementation of IWRM Plan 2010 ?

Human resources: recruitment Plan,

Office National & local training, public & private Réseau
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de l ’Eau des Organismes
PARIS Institutional framework : national, de Bassin
inter ministerial, local,
decentralization, basin

Gov. Strategy
Research & development
Water policy

Water Law

Water Code Information system: Data

On WR & Uses , Users
Water related
Legislation
Standards

Procedures: allocation,
authorization, arbitration,
cost recovering

Communication, information, promotion,

Comm.
education, consciousness raising plan

Urgent projects Portfolio of projects

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 Strong capacity development programme
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HARD
Program of activities, reforms, timetable, costs,
Responsibilities, inputs, assumptions, risks,
Indicators ...

SOFT
Method, way for elaborating:
LFA,
Participation,
bottom up,
Transparency, Sharing,
Cross
RBM 7

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Inter-relation with other sectors
Elaboration of IWRM strategy

Activities System of Information on WR

defined
with Human Resources, Training
participation
of Procedures of WR management
stakeholders
Legislative Reform

Institutional Reform

Enabling environment

Consensus Diagnosis
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 Basin Master Plan
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 Planning at basin scale medium/ long term

Which Adaptations
Base line
• water, uses
• land
• activities • Institutions (bodies, legislation)

Different • Investments
Scenarios

Trends (population…) • Capacities

Development will
Climate change …
• Research 9
 Basin Master Plan
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de l ’Eau des Organismes
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 Planning at basin scale medium/ long term

Which Adaptations
Base line
• water, uses • Saving incentive
• land • New rules of sharing
• activities • Institutions (bodies, legislation)
• Local adaptation plan
to CC
• Incentive to pollution
Different • Investments reduction
Scenarios • Rain harvesting
• Grounwater
• Capacities • Urban network …
Trends (population…)
Development will
Climate change …
• Research 10
 Basin Master Plan
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International International
de l ’Eau des Organismes
PARIS de Bassin

 Planning at basin scale medium/ long term

Which Adaptations
Base line
• water, uses
• land
• activities • Institutions (bodies, legislation)
• Desalinisation
• water transfers
• withdrawals
Different • Investments • Dam building plan
Scenarios • Programme of rain
harvesting…

Trends (population…) • Capacities

Development will
Climate change …
• Research 11
 Basin Master Plan
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de l ’Eau des Organismes
PARIS de Bassin

 Planning at basin scale medium/ long term

Which Adaptations
Base line
• water, uses • rainfed agriculture
• land • Induistrial process
• activities • Institutions (bodies,saving
legislation)
water
• Water efficiency
in agriculture, ETP
Different • Investments • Soil management
Scenarios • Awareness raising
of population …
Trends (population…) • Capacities
Development will
Climate change …
• Research 12
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 Strategy on transboundary basins

• Ex: BO, common dams, shared vision (ABN),
rules of sharing water and benefits…
 Translation in National Plan

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 With regard to Droughts or in
Office
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Water saving de Bassin

Avoiding Wastages
Leak detection, Recycling
Reuse of treated waste water

Groundwater recharge

Desalinisation

Research on low-consumption uses…

… must become priorities in

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