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t The 4 WORLD WATER FO- For more than 10 years, they have „ in November in Niamey (Niger) RUM will take place in carried out exchanges between them during the 2nd General Assembly within INBO to identify and dissemi- of the African Network of Basin Mexico City FD. - BANAMEX nate the most useful and effective ap- Organizations (ANBO). e Congress Center (Mexico) - proaches, but also to raise the deci-

l from 16 to 22 March 2006 sion-makers’ awareness on the en- In addition, INBO will participate in countered difficulties. the International Conference on Wa- and will be, as for the previ- ter in Central Asia on 30 and 31 May s ous events of Marrakech Within the Network, the partners 2005 in Dushanbe (Tajikistan), and al- (1997), the Hague (2000) or have organized themselves at the re- so in the initiative of UNESCO and of Kyoto (2003), the meeting gional level, either African, American, the International Water Academy of Asian, European or Mediterranean, in Norway on the resolution of conflicts place for all the stakeholders order to strengthen neighborhood

w on shared waters, at the beginning of of the water sector of the relations and to take into account all November in Stavanger. whole world. the diversities of local and regional Contacts are ongoing with our Japa- The International Network of Basin situations. e nese colleagues for the consolidation Organizations (INBO), which now In Europe, the Water Framework Di- of the Asian Network of Basin Orga- gathers 153 permanent members rective (WFD) is obviously the big nizations. or observers from 52 countries, endeavor that mobilizes the INBO

n as well as the majority of the Interna- partners of the 25 Member States of In liaison with the Council of Europe, tional Commissions or Transboun- the European Union and of the Can- the International Secretariat for Water

dary Basin Organizations, will be a dy- didates or associated Countries, as it and Solidarity-Water-Europe, INBO namic partner in this event and in its includes the main management princi- will also be a partner in the week de- preparation phase in 2005. ples that have been formalized by our voted to the citizen’s approach to water management, in Strasbourg

k Network for a decade. Of course, it is on the topic of inte- (France), from 17 to 21 October 2005. grated water resource management INBO proposed to the Mexican A preparatory meeting might also be

r (IWRM) on the scale of the basins of Authorities, the World Water rivers, lakes and aquifers, that INBO Council and GWP to organize, organized during this autumn in Cen- can share the practical experience ac- with all interested partners, a tral America. quired by its members in the field. session on the participation of ¡Our ideas are progressing, o The specificity of the Network is in- the public and water users in let’s get mobilized to make deed to gather the Governmental and basin management, on 18 March our results known 2006 in Mexico City, within the in Mexico City! Basin Organizations, which are really th in charge of defining and implemen- "IWRM" topic of the 4 World w ting water policy in their respective Forum. countries: far from academic speech- In order to prepare this session and t es, INBO members are directly res- to mobilize its members, INBO al- ponsible for water management and ready plans for three large region- have to face the daily realities that it al preparatory meetings in 2005:

e implies and the preparation of the fu- ‚ from 23 to 25 May in Mar- ture. rakech (Morocco) for the Better than anybody else, they know Mediterranean basin, with

n the stakes and the problems to be MENBO General Assembly, solved locally in each basin and com- ƒ from 29 September to

mit themselves to carry out the ac- tions they deem necessary, either for 1 October in Namur (Wal- loon region - Belgium), with applying the regulations, or for mobi- rd lizing financial resources and imple- the 3 Assembly of the Group e menting projects or for dialogue and of European Basin Organiza- the involvement of users and of all tions for the Implementation of the citizens concerned. the Framework Directive, h www.inbo-news.org T GENERAL ASSEMBLY - 24 / 28 JANUARY 2004 - THE MARTINIQUE

"DECLARATION OF TROIS ILETS"

In order to achieve these ob- When translating into the jectives, while taking account national water policy of of all adaptations required by each Country the princi- the different field situations, ples of integrated manage- the delegates recommended ment of water resources, that the following procedures and in consistency with regarding good governance of their own IWRM national inland freshwater resources plans, basin manage- and coastal zones should be ment plans (or master used all over the World: plans) should be pre- ‚ This Integrated Water Re- pared, through dia- source Management at the logue and transparency, river basin level should aim to set the objectives to at meeting, in a holistic, be achieved in the me- Pierre BARIL, former President, consistent, sustainable dium term, opens the General Assembly, and inter-sectoral man- † Reliable, representative, in the presence of Pascal BERTEAUD, ner, all essential and le- harmonized and easily ac- French Water Director gitimate needs of the ci- cessible integrated infor- tizens, at combating was- mation and monitoring tage, protecting against risk, systems and specific re- Better governance of International Network of preventing pollution, at pre- search should be organized freshwaters, which are Basin Organizations (IN- serving and rehabilitating in each basin, limited and vulnerable, is BO), to define, all together, ecosystems, ‡ The establishment of spe- one of the main keys to the most suitable actions need- ƒ In each country, a clear cific financing systems, sustainable development, ed for achieving the objectives legal framework must based on the users’ as it is essential to sustain of integrated and participatory specify the rights and obli- (consumers and pol- life on our planet and en- management of inland surface gations, the possible levels luters) contribution and sure the health and socio- and ground water resources of decentralization, the ins- common cause, is re- economic progress of our and of related coastal zones. titutional responsibilities of quired in each basin to en- societies, while respecting The delegates reaffirmed that the different stakeholders, sure the implementation of the environment. the problems linked to water the processes and means successive priority ac- From 24 to 28 January governance are challenges that needed for good water tion plans and a ba- 2004, 178 representatives can no longer be tackled on a governance, lanced management of of governmental adminis- sectoral or local basis, or in- „ The representatives of the resource and im- trations in charge of water deed separately. populations, local authori- prove or maintain its management, of Basin Or- In fact, the search for solu- ties, water users or of or- quality, as well as the ganizations, already exis- tions must pass through an ganizations representing smooth operation of ting or being created, integrated and holistic ap- collective interest should community utilities. coming from 39 countries, proach, organized at the participate in this manage- These contributions, de- and from interested bi- relevant level of basins of ment beside administra- fined by consensus in Basin and multilateral coopera- rivers, lakes and aquifers, tions, especially in Basin Committees, should be tion agencies, met in either local, national or Councils or Commit- managed at the level of the Trois-Ilets in the Mar- transboundary. tees. basin, in a decentralized tinique, during the sixth manner, by a specialized, General Assembly of the Indeed, river basins are the Information, awareness and natural territories in which education of populations technical and financial water runs on or users and of their repre- basin Organization. The new INBO President: the soil or in sentatives are required. Madeleine JOUYE De GRANDMAISON the sub soil, whatever are the national or adminis- trative boun- daries or li- 178 Delegates from 39 Countries mits crossed.

The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 2 1 8 M a r c " h P a 2 r 0 t 0 RY 2004 - THE MARTINIQUE ic 6 M in ip – a e b n a 4 t x a d t h i s io W c i w n o n a o m t o r e f l a r t d n u h W a e g se a e r p t m s u e b r ˆ As regards transboun- Water has no national or It is necessary e l F Pierre BARIL n ic o dary rivers, lakes or administrative boundary: to support t r Quebec Sub-Minister " u aquifers, cooperation jointly managing the resources the creation for Water m agreements should be shared between several neigh- and strengthening signed by riparian Coun- boring States of the 263 trans- of Basin tries and Management boundary rivers and lakes and Organizations Plans designed at the level hundreds of transboundary over the world! of the whole basin, espe- aquifers over the world is The delegates of cially in international or strategic and a priority and the General As- transboundary Basin should take this reality into ac- sembly of the In- Commissions, Authori- count. ternational Net- ties or Organizations. The islands are systems which work of Basin Or- offer a wide range of biodiversi- ganizations reques- ty, ecosystems and ted that Official bi- socioeconomic en- or multilateral De- Christiane RUNEL, tities, where mana- velopment Aid and Director of gement of freshwa- the programs of In- "INBO Newsletter" ter and coastal ternational Coope- areas is a complex ration Organiza- issue which re- tions should be re- quires special at- focused to support tention, a specific projects aiming at legal framework implementing real and adapted means. concerted actions www.inbo-news.org Implementation of which meet the above princi- the European Wa- ples, and experimentations, ter Framework Di- evaluations and exchanges of [email protected] rective is a major know-how in these areas. milestone for pro- moting the princi- ples of good gover- nance advocated by INBO. This topic is a priority for mobi- INBO’s next World Session lizing its members. on 18 March 2006 in Mexico!

Agency (Morocco), the Organi- SIGs will be created in the zation for the Development of future, in particular for the the Senegal River (OMVS), the "transboundary rivers" to- National Water Commission pic. (Mexico) and Apele Romane The project was selected (Romania). within the "Global change The main orientations defined and ecosystems" priority by this Steering Committee of the 6th Framework Pro- were: gram for European Re- G the need to prioritize assis- search. The European finan- cing of the project will cover XN tance to the existing twin- The TWINBASIN project Africa (ANBO) and the ning arrangements; the operating expenses of the aims at facilitating twinning Mediterranean (MENBO), the Network (travels, tool deve- between Basin Organiza- Seine-Normandy Water Agen- G the advantage of a "prelimi- lopment, scholarships, etc.) for tions in order to disseminate cy (France), the International nary study" that compiles a a 48-month period. summary report and car- good practices and streng- Office for Water, (France), the A restricted Steering Commit- then their human resources. Secretariat for Water Re- ries out an analysis of the past twinning arrange- tee met again in Dakar (Sene- It was officially launched sources (Brazil), the Global Wa- gal) in November 2004, during ter Partnership (Sweden), Tech- ments: outcome, succes- on the occasion of the ses, failures; the joint Assemblies of the General Assembly of the ware (Italy), the University of African Network of Basin Or- International Network of Pretoria (South Africa), the Na- G the significance of defining ganizations and of the Net- Basin Organizations, in the tional Water Authority - OVF very stringent and deman- work of International Com- Martinique in January (Hungary), the Interstate Coor- ding criteria for accessing missions and Transboundary 2004. dination Water Commission - to mobility scholarships; Basin Organizations. It will ICWC Aral Sea (Uzbekistan), It relies on a Steering Com- G the creation of the first hold its next meeting in Mar- Jara Tirta I Corporation (In- three Specific Interest rakech on 23 May 2005. mittee regrouping the 18 donesia), the Algérois - Hodna - founder members: Groups (SIG) on the "twin- INBO Soumman Basin Agency (Alge- Contact : and its Regional Networks for ning", "mobility" and "dis- ria), the Sebou River Basin semination" topics. Other [email protected] The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 3 LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL COOPERATION OVER TRANSBOUNDARY AQUIFERS The 14th Session of the Inter- (OAS), the Program was natural resources" in its work The third report is to be sub- governmental Council of the launched in Africa and Ameri- program. mitted in 2005. International Hydrological ca, and is being developed in The IHP is committed to pro- A regional meeting with ex- Program, held in June 2000, the Balkans or the Middle East, vide the Special Rapporteur perts from the Arab world was having recognized that trans- with UN ESCWA. As a first re- with scientific, technical and le- held in June 2004 at the UN- boundary aquifer systems are sult, about forty transboundary gal support on the issue of ESCO and a second meeting important sources of fresh wa- aquifer systems were identified transboundary groundwater. will take place in March 2005 ter in some regions of the in Africa, compiled in a map Two reports were already pre- with groundwater experts world, particularly under arid and table which will be publi- from America, with INBO par- and semi-arid climatic condi- shed soon. pared and debated at the UN ILC: the first one (in 2003) ad- ticipation. tions, the Council decided to International law applicable to launch an inter-agency initia- dressed the background of the Contacts: transboundary groundwater is topic and provided a hydroge- Alice Aureli, tive, called the Internationally still in its first stage of develop- Shared Aquifer Resources ological overview of the [email protected] ment. There already exist in- groundwater resources of the Raya Marina Stephan, Management program (IS- ternational rules that apply to [email protected] ARM), dealing with scientific- world. UNESCO-IHP transboundary aquifers, but Fax: (33 1) 45 68 58 11 hydrogeological, socioeco- they do not cover all types of The second report (in 2004) nomic, environmental and legal aquifers, and do not consider includes several draft articles http://www.unesco.org and institutional issues. their specific characteristics. for a future transboundary http://unesdoc.unesco.org With the collaboration of re- groundwater international le- However, in 2002, the Interna- gal instrument, while the ad- gional organizations such as tional Law Commission of the the "Observatoire du Sahara et dendum provides case studies United Nations (UN ILC) has and a selected bibliography on du Sahel" (OSS), or the Orga- included the topic of "shared nization of American States the topic. APFM:ASSOCIATED PROGRAM ON FLOOD MANAGEMENT

Meeting of the Community Flood Management Water-related This series is available on the Another pilot project is on Committee in Bangladesh disasters, such APFM web site in English, "Community Approaches to as floods and French and Spanish. The first Flood Management", five Com- droughts, need paper in this series, written in munity Flood Management to be integrated collaboration with the Inter- Committees have been esta- in water resour- national Water Law Research blished in selected communities ces management Institute (IWLRI) at the Uni- in India, in Bangladesh and to achieve sus- versity of Dundee (Scotland), Nepal, and manuals describing tainable deve- is on the "Legal Aspects of In- specific activities for communi- lopment. tegrated Flood Management". ty based flood management The APFM has This issue touches on many have been translated into local been working areas of law on various institu- languages. on case studies tional and geographical scales, APFM Newsletter is available The Associated Program on flood management prac- addressing flood prevention, on its website. (APFM) is a joint initiative of tices from all over the world, preparedness and mitigation, the World Meteorological the implementation of pilot and emergency response, re- Contact: Organization (WMO) and covery and rehabilitation. Hisaya Sawano projects and the compilation APFM Technical Support Unit Global Water Partnership of materials on integrated A pilot project on Flood (TSU) (GWP) to promote Integrated flood management. Management Strategy for the Fax:+41(0) 22 730 8316, Flood Management. It is sup- [email protected] A series of documents des- Lake Victoria Basin in Kenya ported by the Governments has been developed to serve http://www.apfm.info of Japan and the Netherlands. cribes the basic tenets and re- quirements of this kind of as a model for developing the management. country’s national strategy on flood management. RIVER RESTORATION 3RD ECRR CONFERENCE The European Center for 3rd ECRR Conference on River restoration or rehabilita- a greater awareness about the River Restoration, ECRR, River Restoration in Eu- tion includes a number of mea- values of intact rivers. and Croatian Waters have rope. sures with the common goal to INBO members are them- organized in Zagreb, from INBO Permanent Technical restore the natural functions selves directly involved in river 16 to 20 May 2004, the Secretariat delivered a speech, of rivers which were disturbed restoration projects. by human activities. entitled "Together for Inte- Contact: grated Water Resource Mana- It has become clear that most European Centre for River gement". European rivers are trans- Restoration The Conference underlined boundary and that one country http://www.ecrr.org that, in recent years, many Eu- will not be able to solve water ropean rivers encountered ex- quality and quantity problems treme hydrological events, on its own. Exchanges of expe- floods and droughts in particu- riences and practical approach- lar, which created stress on es within the European coun- ECRR participants water resources. tries are needed together with The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 4 WATER IN MOUNTAINS INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF UPPER RIVER BASINS Following the international con- ² Launching of a website between ference on "Water in mountains "Water in Mountains - Inte- downstream and integrated management of grated management of up- consumption upper river basins", which took per river basins", areas and place in MEGEVE, on 4, 5 and ² Creation of a forum "Wa- mountainous 6 September 2002, the "Megè- ter in Mountains" with all areas, defi- ve Group" met on 14 Novem- the elected officials, scien- nition of tools ber 2003, in the presence of tists, academics, environ- for land or- Mr. Mike BONNEL, in charge of mental technicians wishing ganization the HELP project of UNESCO, to work on this issue, and the laun- to validate a program to be im- ² Progressive setting-up of a ching of hy- plemented from 2004 to 2006 network of pilot sites to drogeologi- Signing of the Gran Sasso agreement and including the following ac- test effective solutions of cal parks. on 22 March 2004 tions: integrated management. ² Finally, a new ² Enhancement of the Megève Original experiments will conference "MEGEVE 2", The "Savoy County - Mount conference proceedings, be undertaken within this to be held in September Blanc - Leman" area and the program, such 2006, will draw up a Natural Reserve and National as: the use of progress report on the Park of Gran Sasso in Italy have Geographic In- most significant experi- already decided to initiate a formation Sys- ments since 2002. technical cooperation on the tems and water A new pilot site "Savoy County occasion of the World Water quality indica- - Mount Blanc - Leman", com- Day on 22 March 2004. tors, contrac- prising 5 basins (Upper Arly Organization Secretariat: tualized rela- Valley, Upper Arve Valley, Company of Alpine Economy tions between Giffre, Leman/Voiron, the An- of Upper Savoy necy Lake) was validated on 30 Fax: +33 450 88 43 88 the agricultu- [email protected] ral-pastoral, June 2004 by the "HELP forest and tou- BASINS" Committee as being www.echoalp.com rist activities "an operational program". and water mana- gers, contracts ASIA TAIWAN TAIWAN WATER 2004 INDIA The Taiwan Authorities invited INTEGRATED PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT Mr. Jean-François DONZIER, OF SABARMATI RIVER BASIN (GUJARAT) INBO Permanent Technical Secretary, to deliver the intro- Union Government of In- The results revealed that even ductory Conference of the dia and the State Go- with different strategies, more first International Trade Show vernment of Gujarat under water will have to be impor- "Taiwan Water" which was the World Bank assisted ted to this water stressed held in Taipei Exhibition Cen- "Hydrology" Program. It basin by year 2025. ter from 3 to 6 September aims at providing experi- A new project entitled "Su- 2004. The topic selected was ence to the Government jalam Sufalam" (Good water- "the new European water officers in the use of ad- Good yield) is being imple- policy". vance modeling tools and mented by the Government of of a Decision Support Sys- Mr. DONZIER was also invited Gujarat to combat water by the National Taiwan Uni- tem (DSS) for evaluation stresses in the region. and comparison of various versity (NTU) for a one-day developmental and mana- It is actively considering the set- course on the institutions and The Sabarmati River is one of gement options. ting-up of River Basin Organiza- means of water management in the major west-flowing rivers tions (RBOs) with the Sabar- Europe, the Water Frame- of Gujarat, which originates in The System has been deve- mati basin as a pilot basin and work Directive in particular. Rajasthan and flows out into loped, using "RIBASIM", a this experience shall be applied the Gulf of Cambay. package for simulating the be- to other basins of the State. havior of a river basin under Following the "Integrated various hydrological condi- The Sabarmati river basin is al- Management of the Sabarmati tions, developed by Wl | Delft so being studied by the Inter- river basin project", financed hydraulics of the Netherlands. national Commission on Irri- Opening of the by French Cooperation and gation & Drainage (ICID). "Taiwan Water 2004" implemented by IOWater bet- The river basin has been ana- Trade Show ween 1998 and 2001, the pro- lyzed with different scenarios: Contact: the planning of needs for year M. S. Patel - Secretary ject entitled "Integrated River Government of Gujarat Basin Planning and Manage- 2025 has been based on cur- Narmada Water Resources Water ment of Sabarmati river basin" rent demands for all sectors. Supply & Kalpsar Department Fax: +91-79-23252137 is jointly taken up by the [email protected] The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 5 DAKAR - SENEGAL - 03 / 06 NOVEMBER 2004

GENERAL ASSEMBLIES OF THE AFRICAN NETWORK OF BASIN ORGANIZATIONS (ANBO) AND OF THE NETWORK OF TRANSBOUNDARY BASIN ORGANIZATIONS

Official opening ceremony with President WADE OBJECTIVES OF THE NETWORK: PRIORITIES FOR ACTION In addition to the presentation ‚ statutes and responsibilities of the strategies of bi and multi- of transboundary Basin Or- lateral cooperation institutions ganizations, involved and to the study of se- ƒ preparation of basin mana- veral real cases of organization gement plans and action on the scale of transboundary programs, basins, the Dakar Assembly widely dealt, in 4 workshops „ financing Basin Organiza- and 69 papers presented tions and their programs, during the meeting, with 4 monitoring and informa- central topics for the imple- tion systems in the manage- mentation of IWRM and for ment of transboundary facilitating the creation and basins. strengthening of basin orga- nizations over the world: "Water has no boundary" delegates of go- Water has no boundary GENERAL RESOLUTIONS 168 vernmental admi- and appropriate integra- The participants noted links towards new docu- nistrations, responsible for ted resource management with appreciation the ad- ments and information managing water resources, of the basins of rivers, vance achieved for a better produced at the interna- of Basin Organizations and lakes or aquifers, shared by management of trans- tional level. International Organizations several riparian countries, boundary basins and the coming from 34 countries, is now of strategic signifi- H Promoting training pro- significant progress al- grams for executives and met in Dakar (Senegal) cance. ready made in the imple- from 2 to 6 November staffs of Basins Organiza- Cooperation agreements need mentation of policies and tions. 2004, under the auspices of to be initiated or signed bet- real actions at this level. the International Network H Establishing twinning ar- ween the riparian countries for G The Dakar participants ex- of Basin Organizations (IN- these rivers and aquifers. Such rangements between BO), at the invitation of the pressed their wish to con- Basin Organizations of an integrated management ob- tinue exchanging their Organization for the Deve- viously requires methods for different countries facing lopment of the Senegal Ri- experiences through four common problems, notably observation, management, complementary activities: ver (OMVS) and with the protection and development. within the "TWIN- support of French Coopera- H Organizing regular BASIN" project or al- tion. Their specific situation should meetings, either plenary ready existing agreements. be better taken into account in sessions on a yearly basis The meeting was honored by the debates and multilateral G The organizations repre- the effective presence of se- or topical workshops sented in Dakar expressed agreements on a new gover- whenever necessary. Apart veral Ministers in charge of wa- nance of water resources. their support to Pilot Ri- ter in the sub-region, of the from an exchange of expe- ver Basins exercises, President of the Council of In Evian in 2003, INBO, jointly riences, these meetings will such as those developed in Ministers of OMVS, of the with several large NGOs con- result in the identification the European Union for Prime Minister of Senegal. cerned, especially drew the at- of the main concerns of WFD implementation or His Excellency Adboulaye tention on these stakes of the Basin Organizations in- within the European Water WADE, President of the G8 Heads of State and Go- volved in the field. Initiative for Africa for ins- Republic of Senegal came vernment, who retained this H Developing a website tance, within that of GEF to officially open the mee- issue among their priorities for based on the methodolo- and in an increasing num- ting on November 3 and to future actions in the water sec- gies, techniques and con- ber of countries. They re- support the Network’s ini- tor. tents already elaborated commended to propose tiatives. This is the reason why the nu- within "AQUADOC-IN- additional pilot basins for merous participants in the IN- TER" in Central Europe widening the exercise to PREAMBLE BO International Conference, and "EMWIS" in the adapt it to the context of The International Network held in Thonon-les-Bains Mediterranean region. This each region of the world. of Basin Organizations (IN- (France) on 25 and 26 Novem- common website should G The Delegates also wished BO) is especially mobilizing ber 2002, decided to consti- include case studies and to enlarge the direct dis- for better management of tute "an informal Network documents produced by semination of Pilot River transboundary rivers, lakes of International Commis- Basin Organizations (ab- Basin results to all other and aquifers. sions and Transboundary stract in English and Basin Organizations. Gene- Indeed, there are 263 trans- Basin Organizations", ba- French, links with the sites rally speaking, in spite of boundary rivers or lakes and sed on a voluntary and free of the Basin Organizations). the Web facilities, access hundreds of aquifers over the participation of its members This site would also include to information remains world, the basins of which are and observers. current information, a fo- complex. shared by at least two or more rum for discussions and (18) riparian countries. frequently asked questions, The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 6 N M e a x r t MBER 2004 2 r A a L 3 k ia N - e i B 2 c so O 5 h n :

M (M B K OF BASIN ORGANIZATIONS (ANBO) a o u y r r 2 o e c a 0 c u IN ORGANIZATIONS 0 o 5 ) G As regards transboun- G A joint thinking on the dary basins, it seems ne- methods and means for cessary to support the cre- consulting and mobili- ation of International Com- zing the populations is missions or similar Organi- urgent. It would also be zations and to provide bet- very useful to jointly for- ter means to those already malize strong and easily ap- existing, and to reinforce propriable arguments likely cooperation between the to justify a real interest and neighboring countries of an effective participation of each of these basins. the populations, whose ap- The case of rivers of large proval is essential for the federal countries may, for successful implementation some aspects, be com- of the projects related to pared to the one of trans- water policy in the basins boundary basins. that are still expecting tan- gible results. G As regards the specific as- ANBO Bureau chaired by Mr. Mohammed pects of the prevention G The participants also drew Bello Tuga, Executive Secretary of NBA and control of floods the attention of the proper and droughts, which Authorities on taking ade- heavily affect many coun- quate measures to prevent tries, the Delegates con- the introduction and the REGARDING firmed that there is a need dissemination of inva- THE AFRICAN CONTINENT to better exchange infor- sive aquatic species mation and know-how and which cause considerable IN PARTICULAR that it is essential to har- ecological and economic ® ANBO proposes to all in- countered problems and to monize the control plans damage and of which new terested organizations of make the syntheses neces- between the countries of specimens are continuously the water sector, of South- sary for disseminating the transboundary basins. discovered. ern, Central, North, East lessons learned on the In particular, they recom- G They wished a better parti- or West Africa, to govern- whole African continent. mended to build reliable cipation of the transboun- mental Administrations, ® ANBO also proposes to and effective systems for dary basins supported by Basin Organizations, either organize training courses quick warning against GEF in the Network activi- existing or being created, bi on "the six pillars of floods and droughts and to ties and they asked the IN- and multilateral coopera- IWRM" open to the Afri- create mechanisms for pre- BO Member Organizations tion Organizations, to be- can executives and techni- vention and action to face to get actively involved in come a member to jointly cians concerned. develop a true common the natural disasters caused the activities initiated during ® ANBO wishes that a pro- by water and to protect the operational phase of African expertise on ject for an African Water human lives and properties. "IW-LEARN" Project the management of the Information and Do- with GEF support. sixty, or about, trans- G Consistency of the wa- cumentation System Mr. OULD MERZOUG, boundary basins of (AWIS) be very quickly ter monitoring and in- Africa. formation systems, har- OMVS High Commissio- launched to federate the in- monization of data and Ge- ner, will chair the Network ® ANBO proposes to the Eu- formation centers, either ographic Information Sys- of International Commis- ropean Union, to the bila- existing or to be created in tems and the use of com- sions and Transboundary teral and multilateral co- the interested basins or mon models are essential Basin Organizations up to operation Agencies in- countries, to share their for sharing information and its next Plenary Assembly. volved and to the countries references, useful docu- following up actions in concerned, to assist in the ments and African studies, transboundary basins. implementation of its mul- to store them and make ti-year action plan. It pro- them easily available to poses, in particular, to everyone. Mrs. JOUYE De GRANDMAISON and Mr. OULD MERZOUG create and facilitate a hand INBO medal to President WADE The Delegates retained "Permanent Technical with thanks the proposal Committee" of the from Morocco and the African Basin Organiza- Niger Basin Authority tions, especially the pilot (NBA) to organize in 2005 basins selected for the first the next meetings of the phases of the European Bureau and General As- Water Initiative, in order sembly respectively. to allow the managers of these basins to regularly Contact: exchange their experience, ANBO to evaluate their projects, Fax: (+221) 822 01 63 identify the best practices [email protected] adapted to the African con- www.omvs-soe.org/raob.htm texts, to define the en- The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 7 AFRICA TRANSBOUNDARY BASIN MANAGEMENT EUROPEAN WATER INITIATIVE A working group, NEL-SAP), and Kagera Basin In order to be supported un- led by the French Organization (KBO); der the program, priority ac- Ministry for Foreign G West Africa: Niger Basin tivities should add value to Affairs, was entrus- Authority (NBA) and Volta other activities and help to re- ted, according to the river basin. move obstacles to improved Strategy approved The International Office for water management in the by the EU and the Water was entrusted by the basin. African Ministerial French Ministry for Foreign Af- First orientations Council on Water fairs with the identification, in (AMCOW), with "Institutional frameworks relation with the other Euro- strengthening" seems to the launching of a pean Cooperation Agencies in- program: be a permanent need, in all volved, of the priority actions basins. Indeed, even when fi- ¯ for transbounda- that could be financed by the nancial means appear to be ry water resour- European Union starting from available, it is sometimes diffi- ce management 2005. cult to apply them because of (TB); A budget of Euro 10 millions weakness of administrative ¯ for drafting natio- has been allocated to this pro- structures. nal IWRM plans. gram. The funds should be "Ownership" is clearly an There are over 60 interna- Indeed, in each transboundary tional river basins in Afri- shared reasonably and equi- important issue. The River basin, each riparian country tably between the four sub- Basin Authorities (main benefi- ca, and virtually every Afri- should have the capacity to can country shares at least regions, following the identi- ciaries) and Regional Economic manage the resources of its na- fied priorities in each of the Commissions will have to own one of them. Implementa- tional part of the basin. tion of basin-level integra- 5 pilot basins. the program. Ownership will ted water resources ma- AMCOW identified the needs Stakeholders’ definitely be a key factor for nagement in Africa there- for support in four sub-regions involvement the sustainability of foreseen fore requires international and selected five "pilot" trans- actions. boundary basins for which sup- During the whole process, liai- cooperation among ripari- son and consultation were Involving Countries an countries. port will be requested from the 9th EDF intra-ACP budget: made with both African (AM- and Basin Following the Earth Summit on COW-TAC, NEPAD, River G Southern Africa: Or- Organizations Sustainable Development of ange-Senqu Commission Basin Authorities, Regional Some institutions still have Johannesburg, a strategic part- (ORASECOM); Economic Commissions, Na- problems to switch from an of- nership was established bet- tional Authorities such as ficial stereotyped speech ween African countries and G Central Africa: Lake Ministries of Water and Envi- Chad Basin Commission (IWRM, Civil Society involve- the European Union on Inte- ronment or Water Authori- ment with decision-making grated Water Resource Mana- (LCBC); ties) and European officials G East Africa: Lake Victoria process, etc.) to its field appli- gement (IWRM) especially at (European Delegations in ri- cation. the level of Transboundary basin (Nile Equatorial Lakes parian countries, European bi- Basins to achieve the Millen- Subsidiary Action Program - lateral Cooperation and Local Many countries still do not nium Development Goals. Technical Assistants). have suitable legislative and regulatory frameworks that Preparatory missions also al- define statutes, tasks, responsi- A NEW STRATEGIC lowed meetings with the local bilities for national institutions APPROACH stakeholders of each basin to and that allow inter-sectoral discuss priority actions. and inter-administrative coor- The Strategic Approach In total, nine workshops were Methodology dination between them. to sustainable, efficient held in ACP countries, inclu- Project analysis is based on six Most countries have no Na- and fair development of ding 7 in Africa: in South Africa IWRM "pillars" or priority tional Water Resources Mana- water resources is based (2 workshops), Kenya, Burkina areas of intervention: gement Plan. on the new European co- Faso, Djibouti, Chad and Nige- ® institutional frameworks, Real participative processes, operation policy, the tool ria. ® mobilization of financial re- which involve water users, lo- of which includes "Guide- Discussions with the DG Ex- sources, cal collectivities, NGOs, etc, lines" for project support. ternal Relations and EU Dele- ® capacity building, are rare. The European Commission gations identified main areas of ® assessment and monito- Improving this situation is ur- has organized workshops for interest and specific country ring, gent, so that strategies elabo- building awareness to this ap- needs. ® awareness and confidence rated at transboundary level proach, with the local help of building, can really apply within each na- CEFOC (West and Central tional section of the basins. Africa), NCWSTI (Southern ® basin management plans and South Africa), and action programs. NETWAS (East Many already available docu- Contact: Africa) and NWRI Group of trainees in the Ouagadougou ments were reviewed and nu- Martin Parent workshop - Burkina Faso French Ministry for Foreign (Kaduna - Nigeria), merous meetings and talks Affairs - DGCID HR Wallingford and with local and regional stake- Fax: 01 53 69 33 35 IOWater. holders, in each of the five pi- [email protected] lot basins, allowed the neces- sary integration of due infor- mation and the identification of priorities.

The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 8 EUROPEAN COMMISSION DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION IN POOR COUNTRIES: EU LAUNCHES Û 500 M WATER FACILITY The European Union (EU) has Long-term - fostering im- which are a precondition ˜ improve the coordination launched a e 500 million Wa- proved and integrated for recipient countries’ of projects; ter Facility for African, management of water re- ability to attract more ™ encourage regional and Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) sources. funds; sub-regional cooperation; countries. The Facility will dri- At the Johannesburg Summit, I Ownership: to support š generate additional, flexible ve progress towards achieve- the EU launched a Water Ini- and deepen the involve- and innovative funding. ment of the water and sanita- tiative (EUWI), which aims at ment of actors in ACP tion related Millennium Deve- The Commission launched the rallying Member States, civil States in the design and im- first Call for Proposals during lopment Goals as well as the society and financial institu- plementation of water poli- targets set at the World Sum- the autumn of 2004 in ACP tions, as well as water industry. cies; States for: mit for Sustainable Develop- It is based on the principle that I Flexibility: by providing ment, held in Johannesburg in G Improving water manage- our objectives for drinking wa- the necessary seed capital ment and governance; 2002. ter and sanitation should be to launch projects for for- The Facility marks a change in achieved with an integrated ap- ging the public/public part- G Co-financing water and the EU’s development strate- proach to river basin manage- nerships needed to in- sanitation infrastructures; gy. It will be: ment. crease funding. G Co-financing civil society Open - soliciting proposals The Water Facility will be able Within the framework of the initiatives. from national and local to promote new initiatives, EU Water Initiative, the part- Further information will be governments, municipali- provide technical assistance, ners are working together to: available at: ties and civil society organi- build research and manage- ‚ reinforce the political com- http://europa.eu.int/comm/ zations; ment capacity in ACP coun- mitment to improve access europeaid/projects/index_en.htm Demand-driven - sup- tries and most importantly to clean water and sanita- Contact: porting communities in provide a flexible source of tion in the context of André Liebaert greatest need; grant-funding. poverty reduction; EC Water Facility [email protected] Innovative - providing The Facility is based on the fol- — promote public/private grants for blending with lowing key principles: partnerships, and streng- http://europa.eu.int loans, public-private part- I Governance: to build or then institutional capacity nerships and other sour- strengthen institutional at regional, national and lo- ces; and regulatory frameworks cal level;

NGOs POINT OF VIEW AN EXPERIENCE TO PROMOTE IN CAMEROON Cameroon is concerned with we take into consideration up the development of the ties in the design and deci- the four large basins of Lake the numerous advantages of communities. sion-making that concern Chad, Niger, Atlantic Ocean water management by basin An experiment on a small them. Thanks to this partici- and Congo, having a great and the creation of a system scale (Bamenda Urban Coun- patory process better urban ecological and climatic diver- for the financing and manage- cil) carried out by IDF, a local and agricultural practices sity, starting from the arid Sa- ment of water resources. NGO, has established that have been noticed. hel to a dense and humid fo- An approach, with the cre- better education of commu- Contact: rest zone passing through a ation of Management Coun- nities leads to a great im- DJIA Jean Baptiste mountainous area. cils (for local dialogue) and provement in water resource IDF Deputy Coordinator This climatic and ecological Basin Committees could be a management with the in- [email protected] diversity could be an asset, if good starting point to speed volvement of these communi- WATER MANAGEMENT ISSUES IN THE CONGO RIVER BASIN The Congo River, with a to the water code were sub- for Water and Sanitation is decision-making on the use of strong and regular average mitted to the Parliament to responsible for formulating water resources. flow (40,000 m3/sec), has be- promote better integrated rehabilitation and develop- Contact: come a strategic source of management from an institu- ment programs in the drink- Ing. Yolande Munzimi water for nations with water tional viewpoint. The joint ing water sector and super- Water and Forestry Department deficits. The Democratic Re- management of the resources vising their implementation. (Avocats Verts NGO) public of Congo extends on is still assigned with some am- Assistant Professor Until these reforms take place, Faculty of Agronomic Sciences two thirds of the basin, which biguity to the Ministries of the the insufficiency of the national (Unikin) is shared by 7 countries. In Environment and Energy. The policy and of the institutional Fax:+1-419-715-6485 the DRC, draft laws relative National Action Committee framework is a handicap for [email protected] NIGER RIVER BASIN: FIGHT AGAINST THE WATER HYACINTH For fifteen years, the Niger and perturbs water abstrac- Fund of UNDP, to teach the facts, such as baskets, basket- River has been attacked in its tions. riverside residents (fisher- work, etc. higher course in Mali by the men, paddlers, washer- The Group of Action for the Contact: water hyacinth. It covers all Safeguard of the Niger River women, farmers, etc.) a sim- Aly N. DEMBELE the surface of the river, (GASFN) undertook, with ple composting technology President pumps water, that it evapo- the financial support of the for producing a biological fer- GASFN rates, chokes all the animals, tilizer and the conversion of BP : E 385 Bamako – Mali Program of Small Subsidies [email protected] is an obstacle to navigation from the Global Environment desiccated stems into arti-

The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 9 IWMI TOWARDS AFRICAN MODELS OF BASIN GOVERNANCE A project in Sub-Saharan In particular, the project will be: digenous principles throu- ter Issues Research Unit Africa, supported by the Chal- ‚ networking the resear- ghout Sub-Saharan Africa. (AWIRU, Pretoria), and the lenge Program on Water and chers and implementers to The project partner institutions Department of Soil, Science Food (www.waterforfood.org), increase awareness of include the International Water and Agricultural Engineering, hypothesizes that through an African indigenous struc- Management Institute (IWMI), University of Zimbabwe. indigenous African approach, tures and disseminate pro- the International Food Policy Contact: starting from local traditions ject results, Research Institute (IFPRI), the Douglas J. Merrey and social arrangements, it will ƒ creating profiles of gover- Water Research Institute International Water be possible to create more re- (Ghana), the "Institut National Management Institute, silient water institutions, while nance in two basins, the Fax: 27-12-845 9110 Volta and Limpopo, de l’Environnement et des [email protected] also giving greater voice to the Recherches Agricoles" (INERA, inhabitants in the process. „ developing specific recom- Burkina Faso), the African Wa- www.iwmi.org mendations for including in- UN-WATER-AFRICA A BI-ANNUAL REPORT ON WATER IN AFRICA The Interagency Water Group, water for Africa on a bi-annual tion of data and help in data ex- This series will be continued in UN-WATER, endorsed the fo- basis (AWDR). change between the databases. the other sub-regions in 2005. cus on Africa at its 8th session The key qualities of the system Three workshops were held in Contact: held in Niamey in April 2001, as are an easy access for all mem- Accra, on 15-17 June and 15-18 Stephen Maxwell Donkor part of the World Water As- ber nations, the availability of September 2004, and in Mom- UN-Water/Africa sessment Program (WWAP) raw data and analyses, inter- bassa, on 13-15 October 2004. UN Economic Commission and decided to develop an In- for Africa connectivity with databases on They gathered more than Fax: +251 1 51 44 16 formation System (African African Water Resources, the 100 participants from 20 coun- [email protected] Water Information Clearing initiating of a systematic collec- tries. House) to support a report on www.uneca.org/awich. PARIS CONFERENCE A COOPERATION FRAMEWORK FOR THE NIGER RIVER BASIN The "Management and Gover- tate the implementation of further cooperation among † Each partner is committed nance Principles for the Sus- rational management of wa- the Members States. to enhance coordination tainable Development of the ter resources and ecosys- ƒ They attach specific impor- with the others and to de- Niger River Basin" were tems of the Niger River tance to carrying out im- velop synergies among on- adopted in Paris on 26 April Basin through enhanced pact studies and socioeco- going or future projects 2004 by the Heads of State distribution of the water re- nomic integrating studies, and programs. and Government of the Niger source and its benefits which can better facilitate ‡ The partners commit them- Basin Authority (NBA): based on the needs of the the assessment of stakes, selves to support NBA in its ‚ The aim of the partners is, various users and, on the constraints, impacts and capacity building process, in on the one hand, to facili- other hand, to encourage benefits to be shared from accordance with the resolu- the planned investments tions of the Council of Mi- or management actions. nisters of 8-9 January 2004, „ The projects which can sig- held in Yaoundé. nificantly affect the quality ˆ The NBA Partner Consul- and/or quantity of the wa- tation Committee, coordi- ter resource will be subject nated by the World Bank, to prior information of all is the implementing struc- partners by NBA. ture of these projects. In the absence of such pri- INBO is one of the signa- or information, the pro- tories of this Cooperation jects and works will not be Framework. financed by one of the partners.

PAN-AFRICAN CONFERENCE ON WATER ADDIS ABABA - DECEMBER 2003 The aim of the Pan-African 18 African countries partici- The rapporteurs noted the Management (IWRM) at the Conference, that took place in pated at ministerial level, and low efficiency of efforts in fa- river basin level, as recom- Addis Ababa in December all the donors attended. vor of food sufficiency, particu- mended by INBO. 2003, was to determine how larly in Africa. At the invitation of the Contact: to jointly achieve the Millen- FAO, INBO contributed to Our representative described Lionel Robaux nium Development Goals the topic "Water for food the possibilities offered by In- INBO PTS regarding water in Africa. security". tegrated Water Resource [email protected] The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 10 LAKE CHAD BASIN COMMISSION (LCBC) ² to gather, review and dis- Among the other achieve- Aerial view of Lake Chad seminate information on ments of the Commission the projects of the Mem- there are the Diagnostic ber States and to recom- Analysis of Environmental mend joint planning, Degradation in the Basin, the ² to maintain relations bet- Strategic Action Plan (SAP) ween the Contracting Par- and the Vision for 2025 of ties for the most effective LCBC. The latter plans that: use of the basin waters, Ì the Lake Chad - common ² to follow up the execution heritage - and other wet- of the studies and work in lands should be sustainably the basin, preserved to ensure the economic security of the ² to prepare common regula- freshwater ecosystem re- tions related to navigation, sources; ² to formulate rules for its Ì the national and regional staff and to have them ap- Authorities accept an inte- plied, grated and sound manage- Statutes ter manage the natural re- ² to examine complaints and ment of the river basin in and assignments sources of the basin for the contribute to the solution order to achieve sustai- well-being of the populations of disputes. nable development; The convention, signed on concerned. 22 May 1964 in Fort Lamy, This Commission has an Exe- Ì each Member State has now N’Djamena, by Came- This organization’s mandate cutive Secretariat which was equitable access to healthy roon, Niger, Nigeria and Chad concerns "the conventional restructured in 1990 and its and sufficient water re- created the Lake Chad Basin basin" of Lake Chad, which task was refocused on: sources to meet its needs covers a surface area of and rights and to preserve Commission (LCBC). It is a 2 G the inventory of the basin sub-regional and intergovern- 984,455 km . water resources, the col- its freshwater resources, mental organization which The basic assignments of the lection, analysis and pro- its ecosystem and biodi- gathers, in addition to the four Commission are: cessing of data, the plan- versity and to reduce the riparian countries of Lake ² to share common regula- ning and follow-up of de- level of poverty. Chad, the Central African Re- tions allowing the full ap- velopment activities, Contact: public which became member plication of the Statutes G the implementation of re- AHMED Sédick in 1994. The main goal of this and Convention, gional projects and the pro- Hydrologist- LCBC organization is to use and bet- Tel: (235) 52 41 45/53 06 97 motion of national projects. [email protected] CREATION OF THE VOLTA BASIN TECHNICAL COMMITTEE We, Experts representing G the lack of a Basin Organi- Convinced: Adopted the States sharing the Volta zation being a handicap, in I of the need for streng- the following Basin, namely: many ways, to the con- thening cooperation bet- resolutions: O the Republic of Benin; certed development of ween the Governments of N a resolution relative to Burkina Faso; the Volta river and of an the States, which share O international partnership. the constitutive docu- O the Republic of Ivory the Volta Basin, for the ments of the Volta Basin Coast; Considering: sustainable management Technical Committee; of these resources; O the Republic of Ghana; Ì the significance of the N a resolution on the Euro- economic, social, cultural I that the creation of a O the Republic of Mali; pean Union Initiative for and environmental func- Basin Organization is es- the improved manage- O the Republic of Togo; tions of water resources; sential for the implemen- ment of transboundary gathered in Ouagadougou Ì the will of our States to tation of the IWRM prin- basins in Africa; on 29 and 30 July 2004, promote Integrated Wa- ciples and practices on the Basin scale; N a work plan for the Au- Aware of: ter Resource Manage- gust-December 2004 pe- ment in the Volta Basin; I of the need for promoting G the vulnerability and riod; Ì that the river basin is the economic development in scarcity of freshwater re- our countries with the in- N a motion of thanks. sources; relevant planning unit for water resource manage- tegrated development of In addition, the meeting cre- G the increasing water de- ment; the Volta Basin; ated a unit for the follow-up mands and the vulnerabili- of its conclusions. Ì the willingness of our I that the creation of an in- ty of our economies facing tergovernmental commit- climatic hazards; States for joint venture and solidarity regarding tee for dialogue is a pre- www.inbo-news.org G the demographic, social, the development of all the requisite to the process All information economic and environ- leading to the creation of on INBO resources of the Volta is available mental pressures on the Basin with a shared vision; a Volta Basin Organiza- resources of the Volta tion. Basin, which affect the ri- Ì the recommendation of parian populations and the meeting, held in Accra hinder poverty reduction from 8 to 11 July 2002, and sustainable develop- relative to the creation of ment; a Technical Committee for the Volta Basin (CT- on the WEB BV). www.inbo-news.org

The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 11 COOPERATION ON THE NILE INTERNATIONAL APPROACH support of CIDA. In 1998, "on the ground" at the The Nile River recognizing the mutual bene- lowest appropriate local fits to the region, all riparian level, taking into account countries, except Eritrea, the benefits from, and im- joined in a dialogue to create a pacts of, these activities in regional partnership to facili- all riparian countries. tate the common pursuit of sustainable development and Celebrating management of Nile waters. Cooperation The River But the Nile offers significant The transitional mechanism of on the Nile The River Nile is one of the opportunities for develop- the Nile Basin Initiative ment that could enhance food (ICCON-1) world’s great rivers. (NBI) was officially launched The first meeting of the Inter- production, energy availability, in February 1999 in Dar es It is shared by ten countries: transportation, industrial de- national Consortium for Burundi, Democratic Republic Salaam, Tanzania, by the Cooperation on the Nile velopment and environmental Council of Ministers of Water of Congo (DRC), Egypt, Eri- conservation. (ICCON), which took place trea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Affairs of the Nile Basin States. on June 26-28, 2001, in Gene- Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Evolution NBI Vision va, Switzerland, was a major The river serves as home to of cooperation and Actions milestone for the Nile Basin world-class environmental as- in the Basin Initiative. The meeting, for the "To achieve sustainable so- sets, such as Lake Victoria (the Although cooperation started first time, brought together second largest freshwater cioeconomic development Ministers and senior officials in the form of bilateral agree- through the equitable utiliza- body by area in the world) and ments a long time ago, the from Nile basin countries with the vast wetlands of the Sudd. tion of, and benefit from, the representatives of bilateral countries of the Nile Basin common Nile Basin water re- It also serves as home to an have been engaged in regional and multilateral donors, pro- estimated 160 million people. sources" is the shared vision fessional organizations, media cooperative activities over the of the Nile Basin Initiative. Nile Basin past thirty years: Hydromet, and NGOs. As a first step, which was launched in 1967, To translate the Shared Vision USD 140 Million was raised to Challenges into action, the riparian coun- support both SVP and SAP and Opportunities with the support of UNDP, was one of the first regional tries have developed a Strate- programs. Despite its extraordinary projects. It was followed by gic Action Program that focu- ses on two approaches: Contact: natural endowments and rich the Technical Cooperation Dr. Abdel Fattah Metawi cultural history, today the Committee for the Pro- G a basin-wide Shared Vi- Nile Water Sector, Chairman Basin is characterized by motion of the Develop- sion Program (SVP) to Fax: (202) 5723147 poverty, instability, rapid po- ment and Environmental create an "enabling envi- [email protected] pulation growth, and environ- Protection of the Nile ronment" for cooperative mental degradation. Four of Basin (TECCONILE) cre- action through building the Nile riparian countries are ated in 1993. trust and skill, among the world’s ten poor- a Subsidiary Action est, with per capita incomes in Also in 1993, "Nile 2002", the G first in a series of ten Confe- Programs (SAP) to plan the range of USD 100-200 per and implement activities year. rences was organized with the GUINEA THE "WATER TOWER" OF WEST AFRICA The Republic of Guinea is OMVG assignments are the transmission in the OMVG During the 30th Session of drained by twenty three (23) development and sustainable Member States. OMVG’s Council of Ministers river basins including fourteen management of the natural re- In its first phase, the latter held on 21 and 22 October (14) international ones, which sources and energy of the project concerns the feasibili- 2003 in Conakry, the Guinean gave it the usual name of "water transboundary river basins of ty of the Sambagalou Dam on Government agreed, in princi- tower" of West Africa. Guinea Gambia, Koliba/Corubal and the Gambia river (in Sene- ple, on the integration of the is member of the Organization Kayanga/Géba rivers, which galese territory) and of the in- Kaleta project in the regional for the Development of the are under its jurisdiction. terconnection of the electric system of the Organization’s Gambia River (OMVG), the With such a prospect, it has, transmission systems of the Member States. Niger Basin Authority (NBA) thanks to the technical and fi- OMVG Member States. Following this agreement, the and of the Union for the Mano th nancial assistance of ADB and The study established that this 29 Session of the Conference river. It develops a cooperation IDB, identified and implemen- of the Heads of States and Go- with the Organization for the whole arrangement, made up ted two large projects: of the Sambagalou dam and vernments of the CEDEAO, Development of the Senegal held on 19 December 2003 in River (OMVS). I The project for the De- the interconnection line, will velopment and Mana- only be financially viable if the Accra (Ghana), adopted the The Organization gement of Natural Re- production of the Kaleta hy- Sambagalou / Kaleta project for the Development sources, with a cost droelectric development, lo- and its transmission system of the Gambia 17.738 billion FCFA, which cated on the Konkouré river within the framework of started on 1st April 2004 which is under the sole sove- OMVG. River (OMVG) for a 6-year duration. reignty of the Republic of Created on 30 June 1978, it Contact: I The Energy program, Guinea, is taken into account. Lansana FOFANA gathers the Republics of Gam- which falls within the OMVG Focal Point in Guinea bia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Tel: (224) 34 85 67 framework of a study of [email protected] Senegal. the means for energy pro- duction and electricity The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 12 KENYA EWASO NGI’RO SOUTH BASIN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (ENSDA) The EWASO Ngi’ro south ri- ciation, local authorities and ver basin crosses one of the organizations representing most vital resource belts of various interest groups. These Kenya and Tanzania: 70% of forums provide a framework Kenya wheat is produced in for dialogue and effective wa- the basin which supports a ter governance. huge number of livestock and Over the past few years, there wildlife. The world famous have been problems due to "Maasai Mara", which is home the weakness of information to diverse wildlife species, falls systems on water resources in within the Ewaso Ngi’ro basin. the basin. The authority has The river originates from Mau just established a regional re- Escarpment which is the source center with a compu- largest water tower in Kenya. terized information system. The catchment area has been The center is a documentation excised and deforested over center with GIS for hydrology, the last six years. Today the pollution, abstraction levels, The Maasai Mara river and its tributaries are catchment degradation. Ho- facing severe threats as some wever this tool is yet to be ful- ENSDA will soon establish a Most rivers (Sondu, Nyando, of them have started drying up ly operationalized and streng- basin-based participatory plan- Mara, Yala and Ewaso Ngi'ro) or flows reduced. thened. ning unit within its five sub- draining into Lake Victoria To achieve sustainable re- The recently introduced inte- basins that form the EWASO originate from Mau. All these source management in the grated water development NGI’RO south river basin, to rivers are transboundary and basin, the Ewaso Ngi’ro South and management is gaining ensure greater cooperation face severe threats from hu- Basin Development Authority support from stakeholders. and conflict resolutions on man activities. There are on- (ENSDA) has just concluded The argument is that water natural resources utilization. going surveying and restora- the drafting of its 2005-2009 development should address To achieve this objective, the tion of forests. ENSDA is de- strategic plan. issues of food security, health authority is building strong veloping an information ma- To carry out this plan, ENS- and sanitation, catchment con- partnerships with institutions nagement system to monitor DA has embarked on es- servation and information ex- of higher learning, local au- the evolution of flow, water tablishing basin commit- change. Development of wa- thorities, civil societies, pri- quality and management. ter schemes should integrate vate sector and other similar tees comprising various Contact: stakeholders. The role of the related socioeconomic sec- organizations. Charles Talengo Sunkuli committees is to provide lin- tors, the meeting, in a sustai- For example, close links have Regional planning manager kages to ensure water quality nable and inter-sectoral man- been established with Egerton Ewaso Ngi'ro South River ner, of all essential and legiti- Development Authority control and catchment pro- University and Narok county [email protected] tection, which is a key to sus- mate needs, the protection council in the conservation of [email protected] tainable water management. against risks and the preserva- the Mau catchment area. The committees will work tion and rehabilitation of closely with water users asso- ecosystems. NIGERIA TOWARDS REFORMS Nigeria, with a land area of dense population concentra- International Agreements The Participation of Water 923,000 sq. km, is located in tion which is increasingly and Conventions Users - the Basin Committees the tropics where its climate is putting pressure on scarce on Integrated River Basin In 1973, the Federal Govern- semi-arid in the North, gradu- water resources. These re- Management ment created the Sokoto Rima, ally becoming humid in the sources are shared by Nigeria Nigeria is a member of the Chad and Hadejia Jama'are South and is subject to signifi- on the one hand and Niger, Niger Basin Authority (NBA) Basins. Presently, there are cant temporal and spatial vari- Chad, Cameroon and Central and Lake Chad Basin Commis- twelve River Basin Develop- ations. African Republic on the other sion (LCBC). ment Authorities (RBDAs) Need for Reforms hand. The Hadejia-Nguru Water Financing: in the country charged with the The threats and challenges Wetlands (HNWs) have im- Use of the "User-polluter- responsibilities of full develop- facing the nation’s water re- mense local, national and in- pay" Principle ment of irrigation schemes, wa- sources led the Government ternational economic and eco- Water Resources Develop- ter supply, flood control, reset- to move towards integrated logical importance. ment and Management are ba- tlement and food production. management that underpins The National Council on sically a function of the Govern- These Authorities are to initiate the nation’s socioeconomic Water Resources took ment. This responsibility is programs to encourage partici- development. charge of the program of shared among the three levels pation: the Water Users Associ- A number of programs and reforms of the Water Re- of Government: Federal, State ation was set up to promote In- projects were initiated. sources Sector in 1998. and Local. The Government tegrated Water Management. Hadejia-Jama’are- The reform program is based largely finances the construc- on the "Governance cycle" of Contact: Komadugu-Yobe tion of large dams and irrigation Adeniran A. Oluwaseyi basin Project sector reform, which divides projects. International Organi- Federal Ministry of Water the process into several phases: Resources, The Hadejia-Jama’are-Ko- zations and NGOs however in- Review, Policy Development, tervene in the area of feasibility [email protected] madugu-Yobe Basin (HJKYB) Reform and Implementation. is of strategic national and in- studies, design and capacity The review phase was comple- building. ternational importance, with a ted in June 2001. The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 13 CENTRAL ASIA INTERNATIONAL SECRETARIAT FOR WATER ORGANIZATION OF THE CIVIL SOCIETY AND COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT

General assembly meeting of CAAW, centralizing the management water, hygiene and envi- Osh, Kyrgyzstan of drinking water supply and ronmental activities. improving hygiene at the vil- O Building of a regional net- lage level. SDC has provided a work of practitioners who grant of US 1.7 million over share information and ex- three years (2004-2007). perience to replicate the The main expected results sustainable community are: management practices in O Rehabilitation of drinking new sites. water supply systems or A few figures building of new ones in The results of the last six twenty villages. years were: O Understanding of the com- G Water-borne diseases munity ownership concept have decreased by 70%; by the people concerned and local authorities. Vil- G Infant mortality has been lage peoples pay monthly almost eradicated in all vil- Since 1998, the International drinking water through 14 vil- water charges to operate lages; Secretariat for Water (ISW), in lage committees which manage and maintain the system. collaboration with NOVIB, the the water system of their own G 132 ecological sanitation Swiss Agency for Development village. They collect 80% of the O Creation of water manage- toilets have been con- and Cooperation (SDC) and operating costs from the users. ment committees, func- structed; tioning democratically, in the "Comité Catholique contre In March 2001, ISW, with local G Micro-credit programs de- la Faim et pour le Développe- all villages concerned, livered loans to more than Water village Committees, cre- which become self-reliant ment" (CCFD), has been imple- ated the Central Asian Alliance 4,000 women and genera- menting a community water to operate and maintain ted employment to about for Water (CAAW) to expand the system. management project in nine vil- and share with other villages its 8,000 people. The reim- lages in Kyrgyzstan and five vil- knowledge and skills. The Al- O Reduction by 10% of chil- bursement percentage is lages in Uzbekistan. This pro- liance is a member of Solidarity- dren’s diarrhea; hand- 99% and portfolio risk is ject aims to create and Water Europe. washing practices by chil- 1.5%; strengthen local civil society or- dren and households have Since January 2004, ISW is G Women represent about ganizations capable of managing increased by 30%. 50% of water committee’s water, hygiene, health and working in Andijan and Fer- gana provinces of Uzbekistan O Organization of "youth members and are presiding other community development parliaments" in targeted over 3 water committees; issues. Since its beginning, to manage a new phase of the project. This phase aims at de- schools, which are able to G Youth parliaments are ac- 53,000 people gained access to plan, fund and implement tive in 15 schools. Contact: Gabriel Regallet Program Director in Central Asia International Secretariat for Water [email protected] or [email protected] http://www.i-s-w.org

Village collective work Meeting of the management board Loan officer preparing in Kunelek, kyrgyzstan to discuss the extension micro-credit for Gulcha of the water system women’s group

"RIVERTWIN" PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND AWARENESS The SIC ICWC of Central Asia, Three river basins were selec- One of the components of the with a strong inter-sectoral co- together with partners from ted for modeling (the Neckar project is the Public Participa- ordination and finally to con- European countries (Germany, river, the Queme river, and the tion and Awareness (PPA). tribute to the involvement of Greece, the Netherlands, and Chirchik river in Germany, The aims of PPA in the project the civil society and ensure Sweden) and from Benin Benin, and Central Asia, res- are to inform all concerned transparency in the decision- (Africa), is implementing a spe- pectively). parties about the project objec- making process. cific RIVERTWIN research SIC ICWC carries out research tives, to involve the public in Various workshops are planned Project. The project objective on the transboundary Chirchik discussions on river basin de- to gather representatives of the is to develop an integrated re- river basin, which is located in velopment scenarios, to deve- concerned institutions. gional model for the strategic three Republics: Kazakhstan, lop a system of public support planning of integrated water re- Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. to bodies in charge of selecting Contact: sources management (IWRM) Yu. Rysbekov the development scenarios Fax: (998 71) 166 50 97 in twinned river basins. [email protected] The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 14 ARAL SEA "ESCAP" Within the ESCAP "Capacity National Work Teams toge- INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT Building on Strategic Planning ther with SIC ICWC have de- OF THE AMU-DARYA and Management of Natural Re- veloped proposals which were AND SYR-DARYA RIVERS sources in Asia and the Pacific" a examined at the 40th ICWC project was initiated in 2002 in meeting held in Cholpon- 5 countries of the Central Asian Ata, Kyrgyzstan on 19 August Region: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, 2004. Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Contact: Uzbekistan, with the support of Yu. Rysbekov the Swiss Agency SDC and the Fax: (998 71) 166 50 97 U.S. State Department. [email protected]

"CAREWIB" The aim of the "Central Asian planned to connect all Regional Water Information oblast water authorities of Base (CAREWIB)" project, the Aral Sea basin. which started in January 2004, I Capacity building. is to help the public to have ac- cess to information and thus I Production of publications. improve sustainable develop- The project is implemented by Taking into account the in- mented for two years under ment and partnership in the SIC-ICWC in Tashkent to- crease in water shortages and the aegis of ICWC to study area of rational use of national gether with UNECE/SPECA ecological aggravation in the mechanisms for sharing water natural resources. and UNEP/GRID-Arendal and Aral Sea Basin, an "Agreement resources between the Cen- The Project’s priority tasks: financed by the Swiss Agency SDC. It involves 13 oblast wa- between Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz- tral Asian States with the sup- I Opening of a regional In- stan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and port of the Swiss Agency for ter authorities from the five ternet portal of informa- countries in the region. Turkmenistan about coopera- Development and Coopera- tion, tion at regional level on the tion (SDC). Contact: management and conservation I Creation of an interstate I. Beglov Based on the Fergana Valley information system on the of international water re- experience, a new regional Fax: (998 71) 166 50 97 sources" was signed, on natural resources in the [email protected] project is being implemented Aral Sea basin to which it is 18 February 1992. It created by the Scientific Information the Interstate Commission for Center of the Interstate Com- Water Coordination (ICWC) mission for Water Coordina- THE REGIONAL CENTER of Central Asia, whose main tion (SIC ICWC) with the as- ON HYDROLOGY - RCH tasks are to formulate com- sistance of USAID, to enhance mon orientations, to deter- cooperation between Central A meeting of the Directors of casts and for developing and mine water consumption limits Asian countries in the field of National Hydrometeorological upgrading the hydrological net- for each State and the suitable joint use of water resources of Services (NHMS) of the Aral work for forecasting river operating mode for reservoirs the Amu-Darya and Syr-Darya Sea basin (Kazakhstan, Kyr- flows in the Aral Sea Basin. and international waterways. rivers by using four pilot sites gyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkme- The RCH assists national insti- ICWC meetings are held in Kazakhstan (Kzyl-Orda nistan, Uzbekistan) took place tutes in conducting regional 3-4 times a year, alternatively province), Turkmenistan (Dash- on 22-23 February 2004 in hydrological researches. in each Central Asian State, govuz province), and Uzbe- Almaty. The chairman of the One of the priorities is the under the chairmanship of the kistan (Horezm province and Executive Committee of the creation of the ARAL-HYCOS receiving country. Karakalpakstan). International Fund for Saving system supported by WMO, the Aral Sea, representatives which will allow not only to The ICWC executive agencies Contacts: of Swiss Development Co- are the "Amu Darya and Syr U.K. Buranov upgrade hydrological monito- operation (SDC), Swiss Mis- ring, but also to provide maxi- Darya" River Basin Organiza- Fax: 8 10 998 712 550249 sion on Aral Sea Problems and tions (BVO). [email protected] mum efficiency in hydrological Yu. Rysbekov of USAID participated in the The regional project "Integra- information exchanges by Fax: (998 71) 166 50 97 meeting. means of satellite communica- ted water management in Fer- [email protected] An agreement regarding the tion. gana Valley" has been imple- organization of the Regional Center on Hydrology (RCH) Contact: Sergey Myagkov under the aegis of EC-IFSAS Deputy Director was signed by the five regional Central Asia Hydrometeorological NHMS during the meeting to Institute (SANIGMI) allow the on-line hydrological Fax: (998 71) 133 11 50 information exchange for fore- [email protected]

THE INFORMATION-CONSULTING CENTER (ICC) SIC ICWC has created an In- tems and rational water use, by formation-Consulting Center overcoming the isolation of re- on the European Commis- gional researchers. sion’s "FP6" in Central Asia for Contact: developing cooperation bet- B. Turdibaev ween European and Central Fax: (998 71) 166 50 97 Asian scientific groups in the [email protected] field of sustainable develop- www.fp6.cawater-info.net ment, global change, ecosys- The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 15 KAZAKHSTAN - RUSSIA TRANSBOUNDARY MANAGEMENT OF THE IRTYSH BASIN OMSK CONFERENCE, MAY 2004 This model, developed by SAFEGE, was exploited lo- cally by engineers of Omsk Agrarian University and then made available to the Russian Water Depart- ment and to the BVU in Kazakhstan. ® Finally, the creation of the International Irtysh Commission with the Au- thorities of the two coun- tries and with a possibility of its opening to China. Within this project, the Omsk Oblast in Russia organized an International Conference on 20 and 21 May 2004, which gathered 250 persons around the topic of the protection of The Irtysh in Omsk Irtysh waters and their trans- boundary management. As soon as 1998, during a first charges. It could be ex- ® A need-resource model French support (IOWater, project for the improvement tended to other parame- was built and develo- SAFEGE, ANTEA) was re- of water quality in the Irtysh ters in the future. It is ma- ped. quested to the FFEM for the river in Kazakhstan, the idea of naged by a computer net- It covers an area of about three coming years, starting in implementing basin manage- work, and this allows each 1,000 km along the Irtysh 2005, in order to better rein- ment for this river, a tributary country to integrate its da- between the Chinese- force the International Com- of the Ob, started to grow. ta and, as a counterpart, to Kazakh border in Bouran mission and to continue the In 2001, a project started, with benefit from the informa- and the Krasnoyarska sta- development of the hydrologi- financing from the French Fund tion coming from every- tion downstream of Omsk cal model. for Global Environment (FFEM), one. This network, cal- in Russia and takes into ac- led IRBIS (Irtysh Basin Contacts: for a transboundary basin ma- count the main tributaries RUSSIA nagement approach between Information System) is and groundwater, mainly in Sergei KOSTAREV Russia (Omsk Oblast) and now operational; a Web the downstream area, to- Tel./Fax: (+7) 3812 25 17 50 Kazakhstan (Pavlodar and Eas- site (http://www.irmic.org) [email protected] gether with the important KAZAKHSTAN tern Kazakhstan Oblasts). makes available to the pu- diversions made (Irtysh blic any information re- CPC (Pavlodar) It allowed the development of Karaganda canal and the fu- Tel./Fax: (+7) 3182 32 26 98 quested by the new Inter- ture diversions in China). [email protected] cooperation between the two national Irtysh Commis- countries with the support of sion. http://www.irmic.org French experts concerning 4 main topics: ® The harmonization of procedures and stan- ® The creation of a com- dards and the collection mon water database of qualitative and quan- between the two coun- titative data, that could tries. be integrated in the data UZBEKISTAN Using the inventory of data files of the IRBIS base. For suppliers, the new system this purpose, an important BASIN MANAGEMENT concerns the qualitative work of data synthesis and OF IRRIGATION SYSTEMS and quantitative aspects of conversion was needed, surface and ground waters, with the help of the Inter- Following the Presidential De- G managing rational and effi- polluters and water users, national Office for Water. cree on "Urgent directives for cient use of river basin wa- abstractions, uses and dis- reform extension to agricul- ter resources; ture", a Government resolu- G providing reliable mecha- tion on the transition to basin nisms for water resource Omsk Vice-Governor and the project team management of irrigation sys- control. tems was issued in 2003. The Basin Management Organiza- The Central Asian Research In- tions (BMO) are responsible stitute for Irrigation (SANIIRI) is for: developing a mathematical mo- del, computer programs and G increasing the effectiveness of water resources use by software for improving the applying market mecha- management of runoff problems nisms; and water regulating works in the main irrigation systems. G applying a common policy on water saving; Contact: Malika R. Ikramova G ensuring reliability of irriga- Central Asian Research Institute tion systems and hydraulic for Irrigation infrastructures; (SANIIRI) c/o [email protected] The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 16 NORTH AMERICA DRAFT AGREEMENT ON THE SUSTAINABLE WATER RESOURCES OF THE GREAT LAKES - ST. LAWRENCE BASIN Protecting the waters of the The standard specifies relying on this consultation in Great Lakes and the St- the elements that need order to make the agreement Lawrence River, as well as the to be implemented for an initiative that will contribute water-dependent natural re- the review of with- to preserving the integrity of sources, is the issue that has drawal projects, such as the water resources of the given rise to a consultation. Af- the absence of signifi- Great Lakes - St. Lawrence ter three years of negotiations, cant negative impact on River Basin for future genera- the Premiers of Quebec and the quantity and quality tions. Ontario, and the Governors of of the waters of the It is a first event regarding in- the eight American States bor- basin, the implementa- ternational water management dering the Great Lakes (Illinois, tion of water saving of the shared basin. Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, measures, the return of New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, withdrawn water to the This initiative is likely to inte- Wisconsin), are consulting basin of origin, and im- rest many INBO members. their populations on the draft provement of the wa- All the texts and documen- agreement entitled: "Great ters and water-depen- tation are available on the Lakes Basin Sustainable Water dent natural resources. following websites: Resources Agreement" (see Under the umbrella of For Quebec: Network Newsletter N°11). the Council of Great This Basin covers an area en- At the heart of the draft agree- Lakes Governors, an extensive http://www.menv.gouv.qc.ca compassing the five Great Lakes ment is a common standard for public consultation took place For the Council of Great Lakes watersheds (Ontario, Erie, the management of new water from 19 July to 18 October Governors: Huron, Michigan and Superior) withdrawals carried out in the 2004. Each State and Province Basin. The common manage- http://www.cglg.org as well as the St. Lawrence Ri- also held their own public For Ontario: ver Basin as far as the City of ment standard applies to all types meetings where the population Trois-Rivières in Quebec (the of withdrawal (diversions of wa- was invited to express their http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca tidal limit). It represents 18% of ter out of the basin, projects of opinions on the draft agree- water consumption in the basin, Contacts: world freshwater reserves, but ment. The recommendations Lucie Bouchard remains fragile and sensitive to projects intended to increase the resulting from this consulta- and Jérôme Faivre climate variations and human existing withdrawals), all uses tion will be taken into consi- Ministry of the Environment actions; a mere 1% of the vo- (agricultural, urban, industrial, deration in order to draw up of Quebec etc.) and all waters of the basin [email protected] lume of the Great Lakes is re- the final version of the agree- [email protected] plenished each year by precipi- (surface of the Great Lakes, tri- ment, planned for 2005. The tation and runoff. butaries, groundwater). Governors and Premiers are QUEBEC - CANADA QUEBEC MUNICIPALITIES AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT "CANWELL 2004" In 1996, the Quebec Govern- The "Fédération Québécoise The entire FQM membership With the support of the ment joined the International des Municipalités" (FQM) re- feels action is imperative at all French Consulate-General in Network of Basin Organiza- presents 900 local municipalities levels. The resource must be Vancouver, Mr. Jean-François tions (INBO), thus formalizing and 85 regional county munici- protected through planning DONZIER, Permanent Tech- Quebec's commitment to im- palities (RCMs) throughout schemes that will guide local nical Secretary, was invited to plementing the provisions of the length and breadth of Que- regulations from a standpoint deliver an inaugural speech on integrated watershed manage- bec. These municipalities are of sustainable development. European water policy during "CanWell 2004". ment. Quebec’s leading water ma- In coming years, the challenge The Quebec Government nagers. They manage and pay for all Quebec municipalities This great event, which was agreed, in 1998, that a public for drinking water supplies and will be to achieve water-pro- held this year in Kelowna consultation was needed to let water purification, maintain lo- tection and water-manage- (British Co- the public voice their views on cal and regional watercourses, ment over their territories, lumbia), this important issue. The con- manage development of the while respecting points on gathered sultation, whose conclusions recreation/tourism potential of which community partners North- were tabled in May 2000, water bodies, and determine have reached consensus during American found a broad consensus from allowable uses on their territo- development of water master professionals an overwhelming majority of ries while taking ecosystem in- plans. on ground- participants. tegrity into account. The FQM water, wells has been touting the virtues of Contact: and bore- In 2002, the new water policy integrated watershed manage- Me Jean Maurice Latulippe holes. was adopted, thus establishing ment in Quebec for many Director General River Basin Agencies in 33 wa- FQM years now. As early as 1992, [email protected] tersheds deemed high priority the FQM was a partner in a pi- Fax: (418) 651-1127 (see Network Newsletter, lot project to create Quebec’s www.fqm.ca n°12). Through this joint initia- first watershed committee. tive, representative local and regional stakeholders are brought together to develop a Water Master Plan.

The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 17 TEXAS "GLOBAL FORUM ON WATER" HELLO HOUSTON,WE HAVE A PROBLEM… Water scarcity is not restric- vate property. The use of wa- tance of the well-known "Rice This topic aroused some inte- ted to the countries of the ter and other natural re- University", it aimed at analyzing rest in a country where water South. Some of the richest re- sources is considered there to the situation and finding possible price is very low, where infra- gions of the Western coun- be completely free for the ways of improving water re- structures are degrading and tries are also encountering an landowner. He may thus with- sources in Texas. where any action of the public accelerated depletion of the draw the quantities he wants INBO TPS, supported by the administration is considered resource, likely to hinder their and use them as he wishes, French Consulate in Houston, with mistrust: would the "prin- development in the medium without asking anything to any- highlighted the European Com- ciple of cost recovery" have and short term. body or paying any water tax. munity approach, formalized in many beautiful days ahead on It is the case of Texas, which is Obviously, this approach the Water Framework Direc- the other side of the Atlantic? hosting the biggest internatio- finally raises problems! tive, and more particularly the nal oil companies and is a con- A "Global Forum on Water" use of economic instruments to centrate of the pioneers’ spirit was held in Houston from 2 to control uses and orientate wa- for whom each acre of con- 4 April 2004, to address this to- ter management policies. quered land constitutes a pri- pic. Organized with the assis- THE CARIBBEAN WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR A JOINT AND LASTING APPROACH G to face crises, We can also share our obser- A regional network inside IN- G to manage waste and pollu- vations in a regional network BO could be the first step. tion of any kind to preserve such as a Caribbean-HYCOS. May this partnership become water and pubic health. Lands to preserve real, be consolidated for the Here is a first possible field of The need for yield in agricul- Sustainable Development of cooperation. ture and excessive flexibility our islands. Water, a component with respect to regulations are of cultural life going to endanger our assets: One should not forget the so- Land - Sea - Water. cial field: a major concern shall Finally a large part of our eco- be the education of the chil- nomic expectations lies with dren, the information of the tourism and, more than for young adults, multidisciplinary others, on natural resources. education. Our environment constitutes The first enemy of water in "our business" and at this level A Caribbean network the management of the Carib- for islanders closed spaces such as ours is waste. Our societies do not bean Sea falls with us all, the Within the global vision, close escape from the consumption first vigilance dealing with con- to specificities of the land, Re- fever; the treatment and elimi- trol of telluric pollution. gional Networks are orga- nation of wastes are a major An inter-island cooperation nized, especially inside INBO. challenge for the islands. network There is indeed a need for neighborhood cooperation The removal of wastes may At the last General Assembly based on common cultures. create many activities and jobs of the International Network Contact: in our geographical sphere. of Basin Organizations (INBO), Madeleine Jouye de Grandmaison In this context, the Caribbean held in January 2004 in the President of INBO Basin, a Regional Sea, as de- Professional training, [email protected] a need Martinique, we especially un- fined by the United Nations, derlined water management in www.inbo-news.org will require more and more The management of natu- islands. joint management. ral resources and wastes With the support of the Land-Sea: A system requires professional trai- ning for which there is Caribbean Insular Community, Managing the natural re- matter to cooperate. By an Associated Program must sources of islands means man- sharing our resources, we will be launched for the manage- aging Land-Sea systems. The be able to act in synergy and ment of natural resources, as functioning of terrestrial envi- recommended by the Regional www.inbo-news.org not in opposition. The econo- All information ronments cannot be dissociat- mies and activities of our Meetings on Sustainable Deve- ed from that of marine envi- lopment which took place in on INBO islands condemn us to be com- is available ronments and reciprocally: the plementary. 1996 in the Martinique. We vulnerability and fragility of will have to seek together to such systems are the issue Risks to be managed remove the political barriers with, in addition, a specificity We share a climate which re- that isolate us more than the for each island. gularly exposes us, and each sea does. But we cannot reinvent every- one in its turn, to angers of na- The Regional Meetings recom- thing alone on our own: ture. mended an inter-island body G to preserve water, Here too, the experience of for permanent dialogue on some could be made profitable Sustainable Development: G to mitigate its uneven dis- on the WEB tribution in space and time by others in terms of crisis perhaps we have to create it? on the WEB for each island, forecast and management. www.inbo-news.org The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 18 LATIN AMERICA FAO PAYING ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES

SAINT-CHRISTOPHE IN RIVER BASINSET NEVIS Mer des DOMINIQUE Antilles SAINTE-LUCIE BARBADE SAINT-VINCENT ET LES GRENADINES The Agriculture and Food Or- tion, with representatives GRENADE N

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G Panamá Atlantique U A A PANAMA N tions (FAO) formulated some companies and NGOs. VENEZUELA A Nord Y Georgetown U G Paramaribo recommendations for a suc- The most outstanding envi- Santa Fe de Bogotá O SURINAM cessful application of PESs in Guyane ronmental impacts of the Française river basins. COLOMBIE RORAINA AMAPÁ PESs have been the reduc- Quito Among the main conclusions, tion of illegal wood cuttings EQUATEUR

PARÁ the following can be under- and deforestation for agri- MARANHÃO AMAZONAS RIO GRANDE lined: culture and animal hus- DO NORTE CEARÁ PARAÍBA PIAUÍ bandry, the conservation PERNAMBUCO O The PES can be, in the long ACRE BRESIL ALAGOAS and reforestation of the RONDÔNIA SERGIPE term, a sustainable mecha- BAHIA Lima PEROU TOCANTINS nism if generated by local forest cover and the de- MATO GROSSO BOLIVIE crease in forest fires. GOIÁS resources. La Paz Brasília O It is essential that the rela- In addition, they generate a MANAS GERAIS MATO high sensitivity towards the GROSSO ESPÍRITO SANTO tions between land use and DO SUL Océan the service are clearly iden- environment among the P acifique SÃO PAULO RIO DE JANEIRO populations involved. PARAGUAY tified. Sud PARANÁ Asunción Océan O It is necessary to carry out O A specific legal framework SANTA CATARINA Atlantique studies on the demand and is not usually required for RIO GRANDE DO SUL Sud offer of environmental ser- implementing a PES at local vices. level. URUGUAY Santiago ARGENTINE Montevideo O The PES does not neces- Contacts: Buenos C Aires sarily involve cash pay- S. de Hek, B. Kiersch, A. Mañon ments, but can be fiscal in- FAO Regional Office In Latin America the concept usually managed by a NGO, to Santiago, Chili of Paying EnvironmentalH Ser- a national program supervised centives, a credit or ano- Fax: +56-2-337-2101 vices (PES) was given much at- by the State: some countries of ther type of fee, which can [email protected]

I tention in the last few years. the region, such as Costa Rica, be individual or collective. http://www.rlc.fao.org

As compared toL other regions have formulated a policy to O The silvicultural, silvipas- over the world, there are stimulate reforestation and the toral, agri-silvicultural sys- many PES in LatinI America. management of existing forests tems are favored, as well as The PESs were applied in river for instance. conservation agriculture. basins on very different scales The primary idea of the PES is O The mechanism for PES and with various objectives, to create a market for an envi- management could be a from the micro-river basin - ronmental service that usually multi-stakeholder organiza- with a very effective service - has no price. ECLAC CENTRAL A REPORT AMERICA ON THE MUNICIPALITIES AND WATER RESOURCE REGIONAL INTEGRATION MANAGEMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF SHARED RIVERS The search for regional inte- San Juan, Rio Coco, Rio Paz, In the countries of the region, the water management sys- gration for better water mana- etc.). the last decades were tem. gement is a priority for all the Experiments deal with: marked by strong and con- The aim of the ECLAC re- local stakeholders and coope- ration Organizations in Cen- N the sharing of information flicting processes for the de- port (November 2003, Series and data; centralization of various ac- Natural Resources and Infra- tral America. tivities and responsibilities to In fact, the rationalization of N the organization of bi or structure no. 66) is to con- tri-national cooperation: the municipal level. tribute to the discussions car- water resource management in Central America requires creation of Commissions, These reforms have resulted ried out on these matters. mandates, statutes, etc.; in the consolidation of the better management of trans- traditional participation of Contact: boundary rivers in this region, N methodologies and the de- Andrei S. Jouravlev finition of common objec- municipalities in the providing Natural Resources where 57% of the water re- of public water services. and Infrastructure Division sources is shared. tives; In addition, the municipalities Economic Commission The European experience is an N the financial means used to for Latin America implement the decisions have a strong impact on and the Caribbean (ECLAC) example regarding the level of basins’ water resources, on [email protected] regional integration and the made. methodological inputs of the the one hand, and on their http://www.eclac.org Contact: uses and users, on the other. new Water Framework Direc- Virginia Reyes Gatjen tive. GWP-Central America This raised questions about [email protected] appropriate arrangements for Several projects are under way integrating municipalities in in the region (Rio Lempa, Rio www.gwpcentroamerica.org

The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 19 "CARU" BIODIVERSITY PROTECTION IN THE URUGUAY RIVER The Uruguay river is an inter- Since 1983, "CARU", together national waterway. Its spring is The Uruguay River with the fisheries Institutes in Brazil and it constitutes the from both countries has been frontier between Argentina executing a broad research and Brazil and later between program on the fish fauna in Argentina and Uruguay. The the shared reaches of the latter countries, in a spirit of Uruguay River. Activities were integration and in pursuit of centered on the main fishing their national interests, deci- grounds, south to Gualeguay- ded to seek a rational and chú river mouth, and in Salto shared use and exploitation of Grande Lake. their common stretch of the The main breeding areas and River Uruguay, by creating the nursery grounds of the popula- "Comisión Administradora del tions of sábalo (Prochilodus Río Uruguay" (CARU). lineatus), boga (Leporinus ob- The general objective for the tusidens) and other migratory activities of the Commission is species are located at the lo- the protection of the Uruguay wer and middle reaches of the River as a whole, with special at- Paraná river, but there are also tention to the preservation of local populations in the fish species and aquatic biota. channel and both shores of the 40 times lower than the re- Uruguay river that should be Since 1987, "CARU" has been river, over 500 km. ported discharge to La Plata protected. executing the Water Quality Up-to-date, results have evi- River through the Parana River Contact: and Contamination Control denced that standards are met and the levels of chlorinated Comisión Administradora Program (PROCON), which in the river’s main channel. pesticides and PCBs found in del Río Urguay (CARU) consists in regular samplings of Fax: 598 722 6786 fish from the river are not sig- [email protected] water and sediments in four The average annual input nificant and make fish edible. annual campaigns in the main of chlorinated pesticides is http://www.caru.org.uy BRAZIL PIRACICABA-CAPIVARI-JUNDIAÍ CONSORTIUM 15 YEARS MANAGING WATER RESOURCES Resources (Law n° 7,663, 30 December 1991), and also in the elaboration and establish- ment of the National Policy for Water Resources (Federal Law n° 9,663, 8 January 1997), besides participating in the National Water Resources Council (CNRH), as a leader of the group of river basin or- ganizations. In the region, the PCJ Consor- tium participated in the cre- ation of the Committee of the Piracicaba, Capivari and Jun- diaí River Basins (CBH-PCJ). To celebrate these 15 years of advances and successes in in- The Intermunicipal Consor- level capacity of mobilizing tegrated water resource tium of the Piracicaba, Capi- these sectors. management, the PCJ Consor- www.inbo-news.org vari and Jundiaí River Basins is The organization’s goals are tium will hold a special cere- All information completing its 15th year of ac- planning, promoting and de- mony to honor the main peo- tivity, directly related to the on INBO veloping actions in the areas of ple and companies who have is available integrated management of wa- environment, sanitation and contributed to the recovery ter resources in Brazil. water resources, with the and preservation of water The Consortium was founded purpose of recovering, pro- sources during this period. on 13 October 1989, as an au- tecting, preserving and con- Contacts: tonomous non-governmental serving the environment and PCJ CONSORTIUM and non-profit association. implementing sustainable de- Vitório Humberto Antoniazzi The PCJ Consortium, whose velopment. President members include municipali- Francisco C.C. Lahóz The organization has taken an Executive Secretary ties and companies, is an asso- active part, in the State of São Dalto Favero Brochi ciation of private and public Paulo, in the discussions on Project Coordinator on the WEB end users of water, with a high the State Policies for Water [email protected] www.inbo-news.org www.agua.org.br The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 20 1 8

a M n IN a r d B c w O h a : 2 MEXICO t " 0 w e P 0 r a w r 6 M CREATION OF THE NATIONAL u t – w s i e e c 4 t x i h AND REGIONAL WATER INFORMATION SYSTEMS . r p ic i s a W o n in t o N Unanimous adoption by b io r b l the Basin Committee of the ¯ pre- o a n d o - si W Yucatan Peninsula and by serving n n f a e t t the Basin Committee of water m h e w a e r Mexico Valley (basin in- quality and s n p F a u o .o g r cluding Mexico City), of the promoting the e b u r l m technical and financial pro- effective and sus- g m ic e n jects proposed for the tainable use of wa- t launching of the first two ter resources in co- " pilot "CICAs", and this with ordination with the a strong support from the States and the Basin States concerned; Councils; N Participation of representa- O A redefinition of the role of tives from "CNA", "INEGI", the "Basin Council", The 13 hydrological regions "SEMARNAT", "IMTA" and which has, from now on, of Mexico the Government of Quin- the function of a consulta- tana-Roo, in a study tour in tive body of the Basin Or- In order to comply with the de Información y Consulta France for an analysis of ganization. Mexican Water Law of 29 April sobre el Agua). the methods adopted for With regard to the informa- 2004, the main part of the work The "CNA" wished to benefit the management of data tion systems, the law: carried out hitherto within the from the French experience in and obtained results. H Reminds the general princi- framework of the "CICA" pro- the field of management of wa- Changes in the context ples of free access to wa- jects (Centros de Información y ter-related data and informa- ter-related information; Consulta sobre el Agua) is going tion and IOWater and the and new orientations… to be included in the setting The Mexican water law of H Entrusts the "CNA" and French Water Agencies pro- the Basin Organizations up of the National and Re- vided an organizational and April 2004, appreciably gional Water Information modifies the organization with the task of dissemina- technical assistance, financed ting this information; Systems (SINA and SIRA). by the French Ministry for Fo- of water management at reign Affairs since 2001. basin level and provides for: H Plans that "the national Brief reminder planning and programming Since 2003, the various recom- O the creation of autonomous of the context …. Basin Organizations, of water resources will be At the end of the 1990s, the mendations have started to be carried out on the basis of approved and take effect: which will be in charge of, "Basin Councils", created in among other things: a National System and Re- N Coordination between Mexico according to a logic ¯ formulating and propo- gional Information Systems, of decentralization of water "CNA" and "INEGI" (Insti- which will be supported by tute of Statistics and Car- sing Hydrological Plans resource management, very for their basins; the Commission and the quickly felt the need to access tography), "SEMARNAT" Basin Organizations". ¯ operating the basin fi- the information allowing them (Secretariat in charge of The implementation de- to make suitable decisions. the Environment) and "IM- nancial system; allocating concessions cree should be promulga- In order to meet this expecta- TA" (Mexican Institute of ¯ ted in April 2005. tion, the "CNA" (National Wa- Technologies on Water), for the exploitation of ter Commission) then planned for the preparation of co- facilities and water re- Contact: the creation of information cen- operation protocols for sources; Juan Carlos VALENCIA VARGAS the exchange of informa- CNA ters called "CICAs" (Centros Fax : 00 52 56 62 09 43 tion at the national level; [email protected] VENEZUELA TOWARDS THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT The Republic of Venezuela cycle and the criteria of Council, the Councils of Hy- River Basins" was given by through the Ministry of the land use planning". drographic Regions and the Professor Axel Dourojeanni in Environment and Natural Re- The Draft Law states that inte- River Basin Councils. October 2004. sources, specifically the Direc- grated water management is an The Hydrographic Region Contact: torate General of River basins, element necessary for the sus- Council of the Central Plains Ing. Ligia Galiz undertook actions for the ins- tainable development of the is now being created in accor- Director of Water Management titutionalization of integrated country to everyone’s benefit, dance with the new legal General Directorate water resource management. of River Basins allowing the interested stake- framework. It corresponds to Ministry of the Environment For this purpose, a Draft Law holders of the different sectors the Guárico River Basin. and Natural Resources is being debated at the Na- to act. It divides the country in- As part of the [email protected] tional Assembly. to Hydrographic Regions, iden- training of the It establishes the following: tifies the river basins which be- staff working "Water is a good of the Na- long to each region and esta- in the MARN’s tion’s public domain which blishes management principles Directorate is vital for life and develop- and the institutional organiza- General of Ri- ment. The law will set out tion, which includes Water Au- ver Basins, a the provisions necessary for thorities: the National Water course on "In- guaranteeing its protection, Authority, under the supervi- tegrated Wa- development and rehabili- sion of the Ministry of the Envi- ter Resource The hydrological ronment and Natural Re- regions tation, while respecting the Management in Venezuela steps of the hydrological sources, the National Water at the level of The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 21 EURO-INBO

INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE KRAKOW (POLAND), 27 - 29 SEPTEMBER 2004

group, created on a voluntary G Organizing regular mee- basis and free involvement. tings, either yearly plenary 49 papers were presented sessions or thematic work- during the Krakow meeting. shops whenever necessary. Apart from an exchange of GENERAL ISSUES experiences, these meetings will result in the identifica- Five topics were dealt with in st tion of the main concerns of this 1 meeting of "EURO-IN- Basin Organizations in- BO" Group of European Basin volved in the practical imple- Organizations in Krakow: mentation of the WFD, ‚ Status of the districts ini- G Developing the "EURO- The Polish Minister for the Environment tial characterization: INBO" website, based opened the "EURO-INBO" Group meeting It should be stressed that a on the methodologies, common conclusion of all techniques and contents al- FINAL Numerous and interesting countries in their initial ready elaborated within RESOLUTIONS studies and works were also characterization work is AQUADOC INTER in the developed in many districts that agriculture will, in Czech Republic, Hungary, 126 representatives of the and in "Pilot Basins", and it is governmental administrations many cases, be the limiting Poland and Romania and useful for them to exchange factor to achieving the en- EMWIS in the Mediter- responsible for managing water the difficulties encountered, resources and of the Basin Or- vironmental objectives. ranean region. This com- obtained results or very ope- mon website could include ganizations or Water Authori- rational and concrete experi- ƒ Economic component of ties coming from 32 coun- the WFD; case studies and docu- ences accumulated in the field. ments produced by Basin tries, Belgium, Belarus, Bulga- „ Environmental objectives ria, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Re- During the INBO meeting in Organizations such as the Valencia, Spain, on 11 and 12 and the "good ecological "initial characterizations" public, Denmark, Estonia, Fin- status" in particular; land, France, Greece, Hungary, November 2003, it appeared for the end of 2004 (ab- that there was a need for in- The transboundary ba- stract in English, links with Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, sins; Luxemburg, Macedonia, Moroc- formal exchanges of practical the sites of the Basin Orga- co, Moldavia, Norway, Poland, experiences between the vo- † Flood prevention and nizations). This site would Portugal, Romania, Russia, lunteer Basin Organizations, in control. also include current infor- Senegal, Serbia and Montene- addition to the official Euro- mation, a forum for discus- gro, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, pean platform, organized in CONCLUSIONS sions and frequently asked Tunisia, Ukraine and Interna- working groups led by the Eu- questions, links towards Generally speaking, the new documents and infor- tional Commissions (Moselle- ropean Water Directors and participants considered Saar, Scheldt, Helsinski, Oder), the European Commission. mation sources produced very favorably the pro- at the European level, GWP CEE and the European That is the reason why, it gress made allowing a bet- Commission, met in Krakow, was decided to organize, ter understanding of the G Promoting training pro- on 27 and 28 September within INBO, an open WFD and of its instru- grams for executives and 2004, under the auspices of the Group of European Basin ments on the one hand, staffs of Basins Organiza- International Network of Basin Organizations, called "EU- and on the other the signi- tions, Organizations (INBO), of the RO-INBO", for the imple- ficant progress already G Establishing twinning ar- Mediterranean Network of mentation of the WFD. made in the first stages of rangements between Basin Organizations (MENBO) INBO activities must indeed be its implementation. Basin Organizations of different countries facing and of the Central and Eastern complementary to ongoing ef- ® The Organizations partici- European Network of Basin forts and must avoid setting up common problems, espe- pating in the "EURO-IN- cially within the "TWIN- Organizations (CEENBO), at parallel or competing struc- BO" group expressed their the invitation of the Polish Mi- tures. BASIN" project or existing wish to continue ex- agreements. nistry of the Environment and changing their experi- Polish RZGWs. The "EURO-INBO" work- ing group aims at enri- ences through four com- ching the common strate- plementary activities: PREAMBLE gy for the implementation In the member or candidate of the Water Framework 49 papers countries of the European Directive (WFD) without were presented Union, the implementation of duplicating work already the Water Framework Direc- done, by presenting different tive has entered, since 2002, in approaches and mentioning an active and operational the very pragmatic questions, phase, which directly involves which arise in the European the existing Basin Organiza- Districts. tions or the "District Authori- The objective is to facilitate ties" being created, that are process in the field by direct facing many practical and effec- contacts between the public tive problems in its field imple- bodies in charge, which would mentation. be or are yet interested in our

The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 22 N B a 3 r a d 2 m o si A 9 u f n S r t O s e ( h se p W e r m t g e a F a b m ll r n l o a iz y b o m a o e n e t f r R w i t - o h e o n 1 s g r s e t i k f G O o o r c n D r o t – ir t u o B ON OF THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE e h p b c e e e t o r lg iv Im f i e E 2 u p u 0 m – l r 0 ) E e o 5 U m p ® The Organizations re- ® Consistency of water G Institutional organiza- The "EURO-INBO" R e e n a presented in Krakow monitoring and infor- tion of the District Au- Group reminds that the O t n - a thorities according to European Commission is IN t expressed their full sup- mation systems, harmo- io B n port to the Pilot River nization of data and Geo- their specific constraints, permanently invited to its O Basins exercise deve- graphic Information Sys- for supporting a better meetings and works, as well as loped under CIS during tems and the use of com- convergence for the effec- the Water Directors of all in- the first phase ending in mon models are essential tive implementation of the terested countries. 2004. The "EURO-INBO" for sharing information and WFD, The delegates thanked the Po- group recommended pro- following up actions, in G Need for regular infor- lish Ministry of the Environ- posing additional Pilot transboundary basins as a mation of the District Au- ment and RZGWs for having Basins for testing in the priority. thorities on the progress initiated this first meeting and second phase of CIS star- ® A joint thinking on the made in European work on for their perfect organization ting in 2005. The Delegates methods and means for the definition of "good of the meeting and their warm also recommended enlar- consultation of the ge- ecological status", welcome in Krakow. ging the direct dissemina- neral public and for the G Effects of the classifica- Mr. Mieczyslaw OSTOJS- tion of PRB (Pilot River processing of the re- tion of Water Bodies KI, Polish Water Director, Basin) results to all other ceived opinions is ur- and designation of pro- will chair the "EURO-IN- Basin Organizations. Gene- gent. It would also be very tected areas on future BO" Group up to its next rally speaking, in spite of useful to jointly formalize regional planning and Plenary Assembly. the Web facilities, access strong and easily appropri- development, to information remains able arguments likely to The delegates retained the G Economic aspects: con- proposal from the Wal- complex. justify a real interest and an solidation of the informa- ® As regards transboun- effective participation of loon Region and Basins Or- tion already collected, cre- ganizations of the Maas in- dary basins, it seems the general public, whose ation of databases and ex- necessary to support the approval is essential for the ternational district to or- changes at the level of the ganize the next plenary creation of International consultations on the ac- international districts, tools Commissions and pro- tions and projects related meeting of "EURO-INBO" for public consultation, in Namur, Belgium, from vide better means to to water policy in the training of specialists, st those already existing, basins. 29 September to 1 Octo- G Improving knowledge ber 2005. and to reinforce coopera- ® At this stage of their first of hydrobiology and tion with countries borde- exchanges, the delegates hydro-morphology. www.inbo-news.org ring EU (Candidate coun- already stressed several The participants thanked tries, NIS countries and other main concerns of in- Balkans), through projects the representative of the [email protected] terest for future exchanges European Commission for supported by the European of experiences: Commission, inviting the "EURO-INBO" G Specific implementa- group to present the con- ® As regards the specific as- tion of the WFD in is- clusions of the Krakow pects of the prevention lands, meeting to the Commit- and control of floods, G Water management in tee of the European Water which heavily affect many areas with current or Directors. European countries, the past mining activities, delegates confirmed that It will be a great honor for the there is a need for better G Treatment of historic group of European Basin Orga- exchanging information and and future pollution and nizations, which confirms its know-how and that it is es- its impact on the re- willingness to be fully associa- sential to harmonize the sources and environ- ted to the CIS process as the control plans between the ments (polluted sites and other partners already in- countries of transboundary soils, mines subsidence, se- volved. basins. They support the diments, phytosanitary resi- proposal to initiate ex- dues, invading species, etc.), changes between opera- G Design of an iterative 126 representatives coming from 32 countries tional Centers for flood and dynamic approach participated in the "EURO-INBO" Group meeting control and prevention. for formulating pro- In this field, the recent pa- grams of measures, ta- per of the European Com- king into account the exis- mission should be consi- ting and future situations dered as the basis for fu- without delaying the ac- ture initiatives. tions to be implemented in the short term, Compatibility between the WFD and flood control in G Link between the WFD im- heavily affected areas should plementation and the re- especially be looked for. form of the Common Agri- cultural Policy: Improve- ment of consistency between different offi- cial aid for agriculture and the environment, The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 23 EUROPE "RHINE-NET" TO DEVELOP PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

The Rhine Valley Project activities I a "Bathing Day" in the The activities carried out in Rhine; this project include 6 real case I the "Neckar festival". studies: Knowledge gained about the G revitalization of the upper participation practices will Rhine, then be discussed in 2005 G development of the Drei- to prepare an "operational sam in Feiburg, guide for participation" ad- dressing stakeholders in water G protection of springs in management. Luxemburg, The results will be widely dis- G classification of the delta seminated on the Internet, in wetlands, particular. G renaturalization of banks in The project, which invol- Karlsruhe, ves 13 partners, is led by G flood prevention in the "Naturlandstiftung Saar" The Rhine Network or "Rhine- with a true citizens' participa- Moselle / Saar basin. Net", created with the help of tion. and coordinated by "Soli- In addition to these case darité Eau Europe". the INTERREG program, aims The aim of the "Rhine Net- at identifying and enhancing studies, public information The INBO PTS will eva- work" is thus to identify and awareness activities good practices in public in- and develop local practices luate the participatory volvement over a 5-year pe- will be organized on the management practices and of participatory manage- basin scale: riod up to the end of 2006. ment of water resources, will draft the operational These good local practices are to strengthen European I local information work- guide, which will enable the especially significant for imple- cooperation on the scale of shops on the active partici- capitalization of the best menting the European Water the river basin and to dis- pation of the Civil Society; practices. Framework Directive that pro- seminate the acquired lo- I a poetry contest "Rivers of Contact: motes a new public involve- cal knowledge. pictures, rivers of words" Christine Bismuth ment in water management in schools; Solidarité-Eau Europe [email protected] IWRM.NET A EUROPEAN NETWORK OF PUBLIC AND REGIONAL RESEARCH PROGRAMS ON INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IWRM.Net was born in Stock- Based on an inventory of re- appears that real synergies are It clearly appears that the Wa- holm in August 2004 and ga- search and of its organization possible between each ongoing ter Framework Directive thers 35 water research pro- in the Integrated Water Re- research program on water to (WFD) strongly renews a de- gram managers from 20 coun- source Management (IWRM) succeed, in the next 5 years, in: mand for research and will re- tries of the European Union field, carried out in 2003-2004 ¯ Systematizing exchan- sult in changes in the methods and neighboring countries. in 13 European countries, it ges of experiences and of thinking, acting, planning in good practices, the water field. ¯ Defining common stra- The Stockholm Conference tegies, such as for exam- clearly shows that research re- "WFD-COMMUNITY" ple the assessment of the sults deserve to be better en- IN INBO, needs for research, in rela- hanced and are not sufficiently tion with the Framework visible to the community of WE ARE A COMMUNITY! Directive, water managers. If our proposal is accepted by In order to facilitate the im- opportunities of virtual ¯ Developing joint activi- G ties by favoring crossed the European Commission, plementation of the Water meetings in addition to within the framework of ERA- Framework Directive, the the events organized by participations between programs or the planning Net (European Research Area "WFD-Community" project INBO, Networking), the effective consists in testing a new of real transnational re- G a teaching scenario based launching of the work of the method for training young search programs. on exchanges between INBO has developed this IWRM Network is scheduled professionals from Basin Or- working colleagues. for the summer of 2005. ganizations, based on a virtual network, by initiating a Eu- community of professionals. The computerized infrastruc- ropean cartography of re- ture was installed and the ex- search programs on water Contact: It deals with: periment started in the first in 13 pilot countries. Jean-Antoine FABY G the creation of a place on quarter of 2005, thanks to http://www.oieau.org/ [email protected] the Internet for training volunteers. eranet and tutorship between ju- If you wish to participate nior and senior profes- in the project, contact us: Namur (Walloon Region – Belgium) sionals, Natacha Jacquin: 29 September - 1st October 2005 G remote exchanges of [email protected] 3rd Assembly of the Group of European knowledge on the Web, Basin Organizations for the Implementation of the Framework Directive – EURO-INBO The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 24 MEIF - WATER THE SCHELDT METHODS FOR EVALUATING INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT THE INVESTMENTS AND MODES On 21 December 2004, the experience sharing process for OF FINANCING Scheldt’s riparian Countries and defining the stakes of an Inter- Pricewaterhouse Coopers ® Significant efforts re- Regions (France, the Nether- national River Basin District. (PWC), BIPE and IOWater main to be made for lands, Federal Belgium, Flanders, When approving the "Scaldit" presented the results of the each country to obtain Walloon and Brussels-Capital report, the contracting parties European MEIF project (Me- sound approaches and pro- Regions), approved the "Scaldit" insisted on the need for conti- thods for Evaluating the Invest- cedures for estimating in- report, which is the first nuing their cooperation. Year ments and modes of Finan- vestments. transnational analysis of the In- 2005 will thus be remembered ternational River Basin District cing), on 10 and 11 June 2004 ® The possible sources of by the preparation of a single at La Défense-Paris. financing vary from one of the Scheldt. management plan for the whole The objectives of this project, country to another and An international river of 430 Scheldt District, thus meeting financed by the DG Research yet the strategies used are km, the Scheldt runs from the requirements of the Water within the 5th Framework Pro- very limited and often in- Cambrai to Antwerp. Its catch- Framework Directive. gram, were to draw up a re- sufficient to meet total re- ment area covers 21,800 km2. The International Commission port on the practices and covery of investment costs. It drains a population of more of the Scheldt formulated an the procedures used in ® The price is not a vari- than 10 million inhabitants, action plan and set up a mea- 10 European countries to able for adjusting a which makes it one of the surement network to evaluate evaluate the cost of the in- good balance between most densely populated zones the field results of this coope- frastructures and invest- of the European Union with ration on the Scheldt. Opera- investments/finan- 2 ments needed in the co- cings/tariffs of services. 500 inhabitants per km . tional since 1998, the quality ming years, to outline the fi- In several situations en- The "Scaldit" report shows the monitoring network of the nancing strategies and identify countered, the water price general characteristics of the Scheldt is directed by the Ar- the effects of tariffs on water is subjected to such an ad- entire Scheldt International tois-Picardy Water Agency. price. justment constraint that River Basin District. It deals This network meets the re- The field investigations, the the investment programs with various topics such as quirements of the Water syntheses carried out using the are often deferred or large- economy, hydrology, biology Framework Directive, which literature collected in each of ly truncated (Central Euro- or past and current pollution. requires international coordi- the 10 countries (France, Ger- pean countries in particu- Through the "Scaldit" INTER- nation of measurements and many, Italy, Spain, United King- lar). REG project, supported by Eu- plans planned for each Interna- dom, on the one hand, and rope, the Scheldt’s riparian tional District. Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, countries and regions have ini- Hungary, Poland and Romania, Contact: http://www.meif.org tiated an international coope- Artois-Picardy Water Agency on the other), finally the ration within the International Fax: 03 27 99 90 15 lessons learned by experts of Commission of the Scheldt, www.eau-artois-picardie.fr each country show that: which is used as a training and

A EUROPEAN ETC BASE THE INTERNATIONAL WTR ON EMISSIONS COMMISSION INTO WATER OF THE MAAS First tests the sources with few data, led The Member States and Re- EURO-GROUP provided sup- In 2003, a new tool was deve- to develop a table of emission factors associated with their gions represented in the Inter- port to the Secretariat to co- loped for the storage of data national Commission of the ordinate the work and follow- on emissions into water, ac- characteristic sizes and the corresponding bibliography. Maas (Germany, Belgium, up the working groups on the cording to the concepts used France, Luxembourg, the various aspects of the invento- for the management of all the Lastly, a prospective study of the changes in sanita- Netherlands, and the Brussels- ry. IOWater participated in water data of the European Capital, Flanders and Walloon the methodological analysis for Topic Center on Water (ETC) tion in Europe before 2020 was carried out. Regions) agreed to develop, in consolidating the assessments gathered in the European "Wa- complement to the national coming from the various coun- terbase". Reporting report drawn up in accordance tries concerning the risk of This tool has been made avai- The EEA’s "Reporting with article 5 of the WFD, a non achievement of the envi- lable on the Internet under Obligations Database - joint report on the charac- ronmental objectives and of protected access, restricted, ROD base" gathers all Euro- terization of the interna- the economic analyses. for the time being, to the ETC pean and international repor- tional river basin district of members. This site uses the ting obligations deriving from the Maas. Contact: most modern cartography International Commission of the the commitments of its Mem- Maas techniques to enable anyone ber States. Fax: 00 32 434 90 083 to create his/her own map and The elements are available in [email protected] have access to the data. the form of summary sheets gi- In 2004, the European Topic ving access, in particular, to the Center on Water of the Euro- texts of the Directives, to the pean Environment Agency guidelines and formats for col- (EEA) continued the collection lection, to the deadlines and of data on emissions from vo- other useful information. This luntary Basins and Member tool is also used by EEA to alert States. the people in charge of repor- At the same time, the need for ting when a deadline is near. being able to estimate the For more information: emissions of the not indexed sources and more widely of all http://rod.eionet.eu.int The Maas River The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 25 SPAIN JUCAR PILOT RIVER BASIN ADVANCES IN THE WFD, REPORT ON ARTICLE 5 The report has fol- ditions according to these eco- Water of the Spanish Ministry lowed the specifica- types, and the use of the con- of the Environment. tions set out in An- cept of hydrogeological unit At last, the report includes an nexes II and III of the for the characterization of economic analysis of the use of WFD. It describes groundwater bodies. water, based on a specific hy- the coordination of The third chapter of the re- draulic system and its associa- administrative arran- port covers the register of ted users, which is a system gements within the protected areas, which in- considered very representa- Jucar River Basin Dis- cludes the identification of tive of the Jucar basin. It in- trict. areas designated for the ab- cludes a description of the The first part of this straction of water intended for existing Spanish economic report includes a de- human consumption, areas for regime for surface waters, tailed description of the protection of significant such as recovery of the costs the Pilot Basin, which aquatic species, water bodies of water services, estimates of describes its adminis- designated for recreational the costs associated to the use trative framework, use, nutrient-sensitive areas, of groundwater and the eco- the physical, climatic areas designated for the pro- nomic characterization of wa- and biological condi- tection of habitats or species. ter use. The Jucar River Basin was se- tions, the existing resources, lected in 2002 as the Spanish Pi- The report continues with an Contact: and the biological and physi- analysis of anthropogenic pres- Teodoro Estrela Monreal lot Basin to implement the Eu- cal/chemical quality control ropean Water Framework Di- sures, such as point or non- Head of the Planning Depart- networks. point sources of pollution, in ment, rective (WFD). The Jucar River Jucar River Basin Authority Basin Authority (CHJ) has as- The section on characteriza- order to assess the risk of fai- Fax:+ 34 96 393 8801 sumed the highest level of com- tion of the Pilot Basin des- ling the environmental quality [email protected] mitment by accepting the imple- cribes different activities: the objectives established by the mentation of all Guide Docu- definition of surface water and WFD for each water body. ments of the WFD. It presented groundwater bodies using a This identification has been de- a report early in 2004, which in- national GIS model, the classifi- veloped by following the Ma- cluded the works developed up cation of the existing ecotypes, nual of pressures and impacts to now. the selection of reference con- of the General Directorate of THE NETHERLANDS FRANCE - SPAIN THE "WIN" WATER THE GARONNE WITHOUT BORDER INFORMATION NETWORK In 1995, exchanges took place This joint project focuses on To strengthen the implemen- non-governmental organiza- between the Generalitat of Ca- four main orientations: tation of IWRM in the Dutch tions, research and training talonia, the General Council of N The setting-up of a "Trans- water sector, the Netherlands institutions and private compa- the Aran Valley and the French boundary Information Sys- Water Partnership (NWP) has nies in order to ensure an ef- Mixed Syndicate for Studies and tem on the Garonne"; Development of the Garonne developed the Internet based fective contribution between N A study program for better Water Information Network them into finding lasting solu- and led to the signing of an agreement protocol in June knowledge of the Garonne, (WIN). tions to the water problems. its functioning and uses, in- Set up jointly by the govern- WIN, a gateway to Dutch 2000. In 2001, the first "French- Spanish General Convention on cluding the building of a ment, the private sector and knowledge and expertise, opti- transboundary hydrome- the civil society to be a natio- mally streamlines the informa- the Garonne, a European river" was held in Toulouse. tric network; nal information and coordina- tion, which is circulating both N An action plan for the pro- tion center, the Netherlands inside the Netherlands, and A 3-year project, with a budget of two million euros, was pro- tection of the river ecosys- Water Partnership is binding between the Netherlands and tems, including a Master together governmental and other interested countries. posed to the European Union under its program: INTERREG Plan for the joint mainte- III A. nance of bed and banks, a coordinated management Contact: Netherlands Water Partnership Rafting on the Pyrenean of floating wastes and of www.inbo-news.org Fax: +31 (0)1521517 59 Garonne the French and Spanish All information mailto:[email protected] Natura sites 2000; on INBO www.nwp.nl N The citizens’ information is available and awareness. At last, the building of an ac- cess road is planned to the Tower of the Plan d’Arrem (between the Bridge of Roy and Fos), and a walking space in Vielha. Contact: Fabienne Sans on the WEB SMEAG-EPTB Garonne Fax : 05 62 72 27 84 www.inbo-news.org [email protected] The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 26 FRANCE RHONE-MEDITERRANEAN & CORSICA THE AGENCY IS WORKING OUTSIDE ITS BASIN’S AREA Hitherto, the Rhone-Mediter- bery in 1994 as well as the voluntary manner, yet target- Because of the dramatic tsuna- ranean and Corsica Water meeting of the Network of ed in accordance with the fol- mi that occurred in South East Agency has worked outside its Transboundary Basin Or- lowing principles: Asia, the intervention of the area of responsibility to a li- ganizations in Thonon. Work using the expertise Agency has been widened to fi- mited extent: A partnership is being es- of Agency employees to nancial aid to countries in Receiving visitors from tablished with the Water broaden and share our emergency situations, within a abroad or taking part in Office of the Reunion Is- skills; decentralized cooperation with conferences to present the land. Some work limited to its basin partners and on a li- role of an agency in water However, our environment is Overseas Departments, mited number of operations. management in France. The changing: the European Water and Mediterranean or Eu- This would rest on all the ex- Agency has received trai- Framework Directive is re- ropean Union countries, in perts of the Agency and this re- nees for longer periods; forming water policy in order to capitalize on ex- quires internal coordination for Cooperating with borde- France, which must be perience in similar envi- which I am responsible. Work ring countries on rivers brought in line with other ronments from a geogra- to date will be intensified; in par- crossing the border; this is countries of the European phical or legal point of ticular, INBO will continue to the case with the Interna- Union; in addition, new view; play its invaluable role in foste- tional Commission for the French legislation has just con- Work in partnership with ring relations, observing changes Protection of Lake Leman firmed the task of the Agen- contracting authorities in and cooperating with foreign (CIPEL); cies to operate outside their the basin, regional and in- basin organizations. Active participation in the basin. The Board of Directors dustrial communities, agri- Contact: International Network of of the Rhone-Mediterranean cultural organizations, re- François Guerber Basin Organizations, since and Corsica Water Agency search departments and Rhone-Mediterranean decided on its international & Corsica Water Agency the Water Agency hosted educational establishments. Tel: (33) 4 71 72 27 68 its Constitutive meeting in relations strategy based on [email protected] Aix-les-Bains and Cham- this new context and in a http://www.eaurmc.frr

RHINE-MEUSE A TOOL FOR KNOWLEDGE WHICH IS COMPREHENSIVE … AND FREE www.eau2015-rhin-meuse.fr Since summer of and groundwater tables of the tricts", with the register of pro- 2004, the site "water basin and their characteristics. tected areas and wetlands, the 2015", devoted to To allow its availability to the progress made in the Master the Water Frame- largest audience, the Rhine- Plan for Water Development work Directive in Meuse Basin Committee has and Management (SDAGE). the Rhine-Meuse ba- chosen to put online an elec- The site offers a search engine sin, presents to the tronic version of about 2,000 to allow easy navigation. For public the entire "in- pages in Web format. In paral- each "water body", it presents ventory of the dis- lel, all the stakeholders con- all the identified watercourses tricts" carried out by cerned by the consultation, as and groundwater tables and all the State depart- specified in the Water Frame- the related data. ments and the Wa- work Directive, which started ter Agency. This do- in autumn 2004, received a Contacts: cument is comple- Catherine Meyrer CD-Rom presenting this inven- Dominique Kergosien mented by a module, tory, with a summary docu- In charge of external relations which introduces all ment, "the water stakes in the [email protected] the watercourses French Rhine and Meuse dis- www.eau2015-rhin-meuse.fr

SEINE-NORMANDY REVIEW OF THE 8TH ACTION PROGRAM THE AGENCY CLASSIFIES ITS PRIORITIES

Noting the extent of the work Without inconsiderately in- the Agency to classify the contracts, anticipating the ob- necessary for achieving the creasing the total amount of 8th program’s actions and pri- jectives of the Water Frame- WFD objectives of good water taxes and charges and without orities regarding the projects work Directive, and imple- quality in 2015 and the big in- reducing granted aid, these having a direct impact on the menting the methods used for crease in investment costs, the decisions will enable the resource and the environ- assisting industrial activities, Board of Directors of the Agency to support an annual ments (coastal areas inclu- accepted by the European Seine-Normandy Water Agen- work program higher than ded), developing preventive Commission. cy made new decisions, after 1,100 Million Euros in 2005 solutions, allowing territorial Contact: advice from the Basin Commit- and 2006. consistency, enabling to meet Olivier Bommelaer tee, on the financial balance of In reply to the strong demand the requirements of the Seine-Normandy Water Agency its 8th Action Program. of the contracting authorities, UWW Directive and "PMPOA 2", Fax: 01 41 20 16 89 the Board of Directors asked already included in multiyear www.eau-seine-normandie.fr The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 27 FRANCE THE CHINESE YEAR IN FRANCE ON THE "WATER CLASSES" TOPIC The calendar had been careful- of the program of visits ly studied. It is indeed on when accompanying the 22 March 2004, World Water "water classes" in the field; Day, that begun the one-week O Visit of institutions in visit of 5 Chinese specialists on charge of water mana- the topic of "water classe". gement in France; Awareness of children to wa- O Examination of require- ter management was in fact ments for a transfer of chosen by the French Ministry know-how (method, do- of Ecology and Sustainable De- cuments) and for the esta- velopment as a priority for blishment of a French-Chi- French-Chinese cultural and nese partnership to adapt educational exchanges, based and disseminate this con- on the following activities: cept in China. The Chinese delegation received O Introducing the concept The visitors were positively at INBO Secretariat in Paris of "water classes" by the impressed by the methods Seine-Normandy Water used to raise the awareness of It is especially the objective of Agency, that launched this the youngest to the issues of Contact: tool about 17 years ago and water management. the next mission to China of Olivier Bommelaer that celebrated its 1,000th French experts, planned for Seine-Normandy Water Agency "water class"!; Better knowledge of the Chi- 22 March 2005. Fax: 01 41 20 16 89 nese educational system is www.eau-seine-normandie.fr O Presentation of the edu- needed to facilitate this transfer cational tools used and of the "water classes" concept. THE REUNION ISLAND SOMETHING NEW IN WATER MANAGEMENT OVERSEAS Since the orientation law of The Overseas Program Thus, the LWO of the 2000, the French Overseas Law defines the "abstrac- Reunion, formally crea- Departments have gradual- tion" charges: ted in 2003, launched a ly created Local Water Of- I specific rates are set for study, entrusted to the fices (LWOs), local adapta- each use; DE Consulting firm, in tion of the metropolitan partnership with IOWa- Water Agencies. I a highest and lowest ter, for the definition of rate is defined for each water charges to orien- The responsibilities of the new category of water charges. Offices deal with the study and tate the local stakehol- follow-up of the environments The simplicity of this arrange- ders in their decisions. and the resource, technical ad- ment, either regarding the tax The study was comple- vice and assistance to the con- basis or the rate of charges, ted in October 2004 tracting authorities, training supports its legibility and thus and provided the Basin and information of the stake- its acceptance by users. Committee with the holders and the financing of However, it is necessary to de- elements necessary for water policy. termine the level of charges establishing charges in Although the LWOs’ use of applicable to each user, to es- 2005. water charges had indeed been tablish records of tax payers, to define the procedure for Contact: planned for in the law of 2000, The Reunion Local Water the methods for its implemen- setting up the arrangement, to Office tation were not precisely de- identify priorities for action to Fax: 02 62 30 84 85 fined, leaving this decision- allocate the funds thus collec- [email protected] making power to the Basin ted, etc. Inauguration of the LWO Committee. of the Reunion Island THE WORLD BANK FRENCH CASE STUDY The World Bank wished to ® the institutions and struc- These tables are accompanied plementation of the Frame- gather some cases studies on tures, by a text describing the use of work Directive and its trans- the application in some ® the laws and regulations, these principles in the Rhone- cription into French law may countries of the integrated Mediterranean-Corsica Basin be, for the World Bank, an ex- management principles de- ® the economic and financial during the last ten years and perience applicable to other veloped during the Dublin Inter- incentive arrangements, especially the Master Plan for countries. national Conference in 1992. ® the accompanying aspects, Water Development and Ma- such as public awareness, Contact: It requested France to provide nagement and its supervision V. Alavian a document, which includes training and data collection. by the Basin Committee. World Bank block tables that gather and This diversified information This French experience, more [email protected] summarize: concerns the national, basin than thirty years old, the im- and local levels. The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 28 WIS: THE FRENCH WATER INFORMATION SYSTEM CENTERED ON THE FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE The Water Information and pressures as well as the The SANDRE, the Natio- especially the geographical System (WIS) aims at orga- data required for economic nal Data Reference Cen- frame of reference on water- nizing the production, the analyses and making them ter for Water organized by courses and groundwater, on management and the dissemi- available to the public. IOWater, ensures, within a all the measurement stations, nation of water data in France. Water Data Master Plans, partnership, the coherence regulatory zonings and works. According to an overall agree- undertaken in all the basins, and the sharing of the pro- ment, it gathers the main must make sure that the ne- duced data and plays a key www.sandre.eaufrance.fr French data producers and cessary data will be produced role to guarantee interope- managers under the impulse before the WFD deadlines, rability between the various of the Ministry of Ecology. and plan the actions to be car- WIS databases and portals. It is firstly involved in the ried out. The site, providing access to WFD implementation for pro- At the same time, a new public the SANDRE standards, also ducing data on the knowledge portal for accessing data, includes all the frames of refe- of the status of water bodies "Eaufrance", is being set up. rence shared by all the users:

IN EACH BASIN: WATER DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT SCHEMES Since the Law of 1992, and aquifers to suit local field ceedings of the meetings of complementing the conditions. basin networks, a French Water Law of 1964, The website www.sitesage.org summary table of the ad- Water Develop- provides easy access to rich in- vancement dates of various ment and Mana- formation issued from regula- SAGEs and a synthesis of the gement Schemes tory texts, current events, ex- relevant answers for each (SAGEs), formu- perience of various French broad topic dealt with in the lated by Local Wa- SAGEs, guidance documents. It "forum", especially concerning ter Commissions has now included new sections the work undertaken in (LWCs), have spe- such as training, with the list rivers. cified the provi- of the main organizations, the sions of the Basin Network of SAGE facilita- www.sitesage.org Master Plans at the tors, with access to the pro- level of tributaries

A MANAGEMENT TOOL FOR AUNIS AQUIFER The "Marais Poitevin" (Poite- and qualitative protection of Better knowledge N Data bases: vin Marsh) is the second water resources and aquatic for better management ¯ effective precipitations, largest wetland of France. ecosystems. The hydrogeological study ¯ abstracted volumes; The Water Development On the southern catchment carried out on Aunis NIE by N Hydrogeological cam- and Management Scheme area of the Marsh, the perime- the Interdepartmental Institu- paigns: (SAGE) of "Sèvre Nior- ter of the intensely exploited tion of the Sèvre Niortaise taise - Marais Poitevin" is groundwater (NIE) of Aunis, Basin (IIBSN), with the sup- ¯ pumping tests carried out the planning and management shows a chronic imbalance bet- port of the Loire-Brittany Wa- on 19 sites. tool which applies to it. It sets ween water resources and ter Agency and of the Depart- The relations between the the general objectives for use, needs. ments of Charente-Maritime, Malm Groundwater and the development and quantitative Deux-Sèvres and Vendée, Marsh are also investigated must allow for better under- with the University of Poitiers. standing of groundwater re- Once the model is completed sources. It means developing a at the end of 2005, it will be mathematical model for an possible to simulate various aquifer which implies that situations, to observe the con- much information is available. sequences, and draw conclu- The reliability of the model sions in terms of management depends on data quality. or development. In order to obtain essential in- formation, it was necessary to Contact: implement: Marc GALIA N Monitoring networks: IIBSN - EPTB Fax: +33 5 49 06 77 71 ¯ the piezometric network [email protected] on 30 sites, ¯ the water-level network on 22 sites, ¯ the hydrometric network to follow up river flows and drained volumes at the out- let of the four sub-basins;

The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 29 CEENBO

2ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN NETWORK OF BASIN ORGANIZATIONS KRAKOW,POLAND, 26 SEPTEMBER 2004 ria; Mr. Petr Kubala - Czech NEXT MEETINGS Republic; Mr. Petru Serban - The implementation of the Eu- Romania; Mrs. Natasa Smolar- ropean Framework Directive Zvanut - Slovenia. Serbia & will remain a CEENBO priority Montenegro will send its nomi- topic in 2005 for mobilizing the nation. Network members involved, CEENBO is taking the legal either in the enlarged Euro- form of an association under pean Union or in any other in- Romanian legislation and its terested Country of Central secretariat will be handled by Europe and the Balkans. the National Administration The next meetings of the Liai- APELE ROMANE. According son Bureau will be coordinated to the provisions of Clause 4 of with the main events organized CEENBO Statutes, the Natio- by INBO or its Regional Net- nal Administration "Apele Ro- works: EURO-INBO Group The delegates of CEENBO mane" - Romania - will conti- meetings in Poland and Wal- General Assembly nue to be the host of the Asso- loon region in particular, HEL- ciation’s Head Office. COM - St. Petersburg, etc. The 2nd General Assembly for their financial support to Based upon the proposal of the There were some proposals of the Central and Eastern the Secretariat since the last Bureau, the General Assembly European Network of Basin General Assembly in Sinaia, for future CEENBO work- designated Mrs. Daniela Radu- shops in 2005 and 2006, in the Organizations took place in Romania. lescu as the Head of CEENBO Krakow, Poland, on 26 Sep- Czech Republic (Topic: Moni- The General Assembly was Secretariat. Poland will nomi- toring), in Poland (Wroclaw) tember 2004, and was pleased with the progress re- nate a Deputy Secretary. chaired by Mr. Ovidiu GA- on floods, and in Bulgaria (un- port, presented by CEENBO On this occasion, specialists der discussion). BOR. The event was orga- Secretary - Mrs. Daniela Radu- were nominated to take part in nized by the Polish Author- lescu, and they approved the INBO Experts’ Council. Contact : ities, the International Of- budget. The delegates congra- CEENBO Permanent Technical fice for Water and the Sec- Secretariat tulated the Apele Romane Na- [email protected] retariat of CEENBO. tional Administration’s leading The President of INBO (Inter- staff for their support to www.ceenbo.org national Network of Basin Or- CEENBO and INBO activities. ganizations) - Mrs. Madeleine de The new Romanian National Grandmaison, INBO Secretary, Training Center for Water WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE (WFD) Mr. Jean-Francois Donzier and Management was inaugurated Mr. Pierre Roussel, President of on 30 May 2004, by Mr. F. Sta- Since 2002, the WFD has regional workshops addres- the French Rhone-Mediter- diu, State Secretary in charge been the main work topic of sing the representatives of ranean and Corsica Water of Water, on the occasion of the Regional Central Euro- Basin Organizations and the Agency participated in the As- the Liaison Bureau of the Net- pean Network of Basin Orga- national executives in charge sembly. work of International Com- nizations (CEENBO), whose of implementing the WFD in The Assembly welcomed missions and Transboundary Secretariat is ensured by the Central European coun- delegates representing Mem- Basin Organizations (Voina / Apele Romane in Romania. tries. The workshops dealt ber Organizations or ob- Romania, 27 - 29 May 2004). IOWater and French experts with specific aspects, such as servers from Bulgaria, This Center will also be from Water Agencies and the delimitation of water bo- Czech Republic, Hungary, available to CEENBO mem- Walloon experts from Liege dies, the analysis of pressures Moldova, Poland, Romania, bers. University provided support and impacts, the economic Serbia & Montenegro and to the organization of several analysis, "the inventory", etc. Slovakia. Belarus attended The Assembly unanimously and showed interest in nominated Mr. Mieczyslaw. S. Ostojski, as the new CEEN- CEENBO workshop in Tulcea participating in CEENBO st work. GWP was represen- BO President from 1 January ted by Mr. L. N. Popescu 2005, thus succeeding to (GWP CEE Romania). Mr. Ovidiu Gabor (Romania). The Assembly thanked Mr. M. It also nominated the following Ostojski, Polish Water Direc- members of the Liaison Bu- tor, for his warm welcome and reau: Mr. M.S. Ostojski - Presi- the perfect organization of the dent, Poland; Mr. Ovidiu Ga- Assembly, as well as the Ro- bor - Vice-President, Romania; manian and French Authorities Mrs. Galina Balusheva - Bulga-

Namur (Walloon Region – Belgium) 29 September - 1st October 2004 3rd Assembly of the Group of European Basin Organizations for the Implementation of the Framework Directive – EURO-INBO The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 30 CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE FRENCH-ROMANIAN ROMANIA BILATERAL COOPERATION IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FRAMEWORK The Romanian Ministry of the A second workshop, dealing DIRECTIVE IN PILOT BASINS Environment and the French with the economic compo- Ministries of Ecology and Sus- nent of the Framework Di- During the steps taken by Ro- cal and bacteriological analyses tainable Development and for rective, took place in July mania for its accession to the of waters, and technical assis- Foreign Affairs increased 2004. It presented cost re- European Union, all Communi- tance on the other hand. their cooperation for the im- covery, the formulation of ty Directives on water were The contract was allocated to plementation of the European evolution scenarios or the transcribed into Romanian na- a Consortium, made up of Ar- Framework Directive in Ro- calculation of taxes and water tional law. cadis Euroconsult B.V., Mott mania. charges. Romania is a Member of the In- MacDonalt, the International The first workshop, held in These workshops gathered ternational Commission for Office for Water and Ecottera, May 2004, allowed exchanges participants from the National the Protection of the Danube in order to undertake techni- of experience on the imple- Administration Apele Romane River (ICPDR), which has for- cal assistance, training pro- mentation of the inventory in (NAAR), from the eleven mulated a program for the im- grams, the supply of software Districts in Romania and in Delegated Water Directo- plementation of the Frame- and the dissemination of re- France and on the use of rates in charge of implemen- work Directive in all the Danu- sults. The guidelines and models and tools for asses- ting the WFD, and French bian countries. methodologies prepared by sing water quality for charac- (Water Agencies) and Belgian In May 2004, the Ministry of the project could then be ap- terization of the Districts. (Liege University) experts. the Environment and Water plied in other Romanian river Management, through the Na- basins. ROMANIAN DUTCH tional Administration "Roma- They are based on the Com- BILATERAL COOPERATION nian Waters", received from mon Strategy formulated by From the Romanian side, the Significant work was underta- the PHARE program a support the European Commission and Mures pilot project was imple- ken on the latter with the pu- for the implementation of the the European Water Directors mented, between January 2002 blishing of the "Directiva Apei" Framework Directive in two for the development of Inte- and December 2003, by the newspaper, the preparation of pilot basins: Somes-Tisza and grated Water Management Mures River Directorate, the posters and a leaflet on the Arges-Vedea. Plans in the river basins and for Ministry of Environment and Mures River Directorate, the This project includes, on the an economic analysis. Water Management, and the development of a CD on the one hand, the providing of Contact: National Administration "Ape- pilot project, the creation of a analysis equipment to the labo- Arges Vedea Directorate le Romane/Romanian Waters", website and the organization ratories of the Basin Authori- Fax: 40.248.211549 and from the Dutch side by of workshops with the River ties, especially for the biologi- [email protected] Arcadis. Basin Committee members. It dealt with the River Basin Contact: Management Plan, institutional Mures River Directorate NEW WATER LAW IN ROMANIA: structure adaptation, the moni- Fax: +40 265 26 42 90 FIRST LIGHT toring and assessment strategy, [email protected] and training and public aware- In 110 articles, the Water by way of a "contribution" ness. Law 310/2004 amended, on applied to all the industri- last 28 June, the initial Water al, agricultural and domes- Law of 1996 for introducing tic users. the Framework Directive in N The door is opened to an Romania. adjustment of this "contri- New: bution" according to "en- N The National Administra- vironmental, economic, tion of Romanian Waters social, geographic and cli- (NAAR) and its 11 Basin matic" considerations. Organizations become N The financing of invest- "public institutions of na- ments will be ensured by tional interest with legal the State budgets and lo- entity". cal authorities. To this are N Flood-prone areas are es- added the loans and obli- The Mures river tablished in which any gations guaranteed by the new construction is pro- State. "RNIDA": hibited, while the existing The "Water Fund" is sup- THE ROMANIAN NATIONAL WATER buildings will have to be pressed. destroyed, except for N The operating expenses INFORMATION NETWORK owners willing to assume of the Water Administra- The setting-up of the National Cartography, the Ministry of personally the risks. tion and of the Frame- Water Information Network is Transport, the National Com- N The economic value of work Directive imple- continuing. pany for Land Reclamation, the water is clearly affirmed mentation will be en- An inter-ministry meeting al- National Authority for the and justifies that conser- sured, on a case by case lowed the drafting of an agree- Regulation of Public Services, vation, reuse and saving basis, by the State budgets ment protocol on the method the Ministry of Economy and measures are financially and those of local autho- for operating the Network. Trade, the National Institute of encouraged. Bonuses and rities. The participants came from Meteorology, the Ministry of penalties are established the National Institute of Hy- the Environment and the "Na- with such a purpose in drology and Water Manage- tional Administration of Ro- mind. The total recovery ment, the National Institute of manian Waters". of environmental costs is Statistics, the National Office to be achieved in 2010, of Land Registry, Geodesy and www.rowater.ro The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 31 POZNAN RZGW POLAND IMPLEMENTATION WFD IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NITRATES DIRECTIVE When the new Water Act In a second stage, the RZGW Within the PHARE programs WFD implementation in Fran- st and the implementation of the ce: Ministry of Ecology and came into force on 1 January formulated action programs to European Water Framework Sustainable Development, Wa- 2002, the heads of the seven reduce water pollution in vul- Directive (WFD), a twinning ter Agencies (Rhine-Meuse, regional water management nerable zones. In the Warta between Poland and France Artois-Picardy, Seine-Nor- boards were entrusted with river basin, seven action pro- started in the fourth quarter of mandy, Adour-Garonne and new duties connected in great grams concerning 19 munici- 2004 for a 2-year duration. Loire-Brittany), Regional Di- part to the Nitrates Directive palities were thus established. 91/676/EEC. They include a range of actions The International Office for rectorates of the Environment (DIRENs), the Office of Geo- They have to identify sensitive necessary for improving envi- Water intervenes as operator ronmental quality: the im- of the French Ministry of Eco- logical and Mining Research surface and ground waters and (BRGM), IOWater, etc. zones vulnerable to nitrates provement of agricultural logy and Sustainable Develop- practices, the farmers’ aware- ment. The main objective of this and establish action programs to reduce water pollution. ness to existing environmental In Poland, the Ministry of the twinning is to assist with quality problems and their Environment (Department of the implementation of the The Regional Water Manage- ment Board (RZGW) in Poz- education on good agricultural Water Resources) is the pro- economic tools of the Eu- practices, a permanent diagno- ject recipient. It is mobilizing ropean Framework Direc- nan carried out a complete analysis of water pollution by sis of environmental hazards, many Polish stakeholders in tive. the monitoring of the effective- water management, especially The activities will aim at nitrates, which is not a serious problem. ness of the action program the Water Agencies (RZG- formulating management (monitoring of agriculture, Ws). plans for the river basin As a consequence of this iden- tification of sensitive waters, biotopes and surface water This twinning resumes the districts and programs of quality in sensitive areas) and principles used in the previous measures, at recovering 7 nitrate-vulnerable zones were found in the Warta river the implementation of sup- arrangements (called "pre- costs and developing water porting actions. accession"), with, in particular, pricing policies, at public par- basin. The decrees concerning the appointment of a French ticipation in the preparation of vulnerable zones came into Contact: Resident Adviser, who will management plans, and at force in December 2003. The Krystian Piechowiak delimitation of vulnerable RZGW Poznan work at the Polish Ministry of strengthening transboundary [email protected] the Environment during 24 Cooperation in international zones will be reviewed every 4 months. This twinning also im- districts with neighboring years. plies the participation of many Countries such as Russia, Be- French experts coming from larus or the Ukraine. The Warta River in Poznan institutions involved in the "OSIRIS": FLOOD WARNING In the dramatic circumstances of OSIRIS demonstrates that the the past catastrophic floods, new information technologies which occurred in Europe, can be used to improve the dis- OSIRIS (Operational Solu- semination and reception of tions for the management of flood warnings. OSIRIS was de- Inundation Risks in the In- voted to properly understand formation Society), funded by the socio-political and cultural the European Commission, is a contexts of both risk communi- project, which allowed testing cators and their audience. how new information and com- The strong determination of the munication technologies can be French (EPLoire) and Polish an incentive to proactive beha- (District of Klodzko, IMGW) vior in terms of reducing vulne- partners allowed the exploita- rability to flood risk. It consisted tion of the OSIRIS results in the in assessing different targeted form of industrialized tools, with TRANSBOUNDARY WATER MANAGEMENT group end-user requirements, a deployment to other basins. The Polish accession to the Eu- It is foreseen that, in the near specifications and in developing Contacts: ropean Union has opened new future, an agreement will be five prototyped applications Marc ERLICH, SOGREAH, financial resources (Tacis, signed on the harmonization of in Frankfurt/Oder (Germany), [email protected] DANCEE, Fifth FPRD) and transboundary monitoring and Klodzko (Poland) and in the Mid- Roman KONIECZNY, IMGW launched again the Polish-Rus- free data exchange. The first dle Loire basin (France). [email protected] sian cooperation on the inte- official discussions took place grated management of Vistula in September 2004 in Moscow. Lagoon basin, initiated in 1964, This will have a great influence between the Polish north-eas- on the development of mana- tern voivodeships (provinces) gement plans for international In May 2005, the Gdansk Water Foundation th and the Kaliningrad Oblast. In- basin districts, including the will celebrate its 10 anniversary! deed the Russian Central Go- Vistula, as required by the This Foundation under Polish law was created in May vernment has thus treated the Framework Directive. 1995, within the framework of a cooperation project led Kaliningrad Oblast as a pilot by IOWater and gathering Polish and French national and Contact: project for developing coope- Janusz T. TOPILKO regional Authorities as well as Danish Cooperation, with a ration with the European RZGW Gdansk - POLAND complementary financing from the European Commission Union. Fax: +4858 326 1889 within the Life Baltic program. [email protected] With a team of 7 people, managed by Zbigniew Sobocins- ki, the Foundation carried out in 2004 more than 60 semi- nars and training courses for a public of about 1,500 pro- fessionals of the water sector coming from the entire ter- ritory of Poland. The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 32 HUNGARY / FRANCE TWINNING HUNGARY The signing of an agreement The presentation of the river INTERNATIONAL POST-GRADUATE was concluded between the basin management plan of the COURSE ON HYDROLOGY National Directorate for Envi- Loire-Brittany river basin, and ronment, Nature and Water the examination of its possible Protection (Hungary) and the application in Hungary are also Loire-Brittany Water Agency planned. (France) in the Festetics Castle The Parties carry out joint re- on the bank of Lake Balaton. search and exchange results, It concerns the implementa- organize seminars, study-tours tion of the EU Water Frame- and practical training for their work Directive in two river employees and executives, as basin directorates out of the well as exchanges of short- 12 Hungarian Environmental term experts and between and Water Protection Direc- their documentation centers. torates: the West-Trans- The twinning agreement is Danubian and Trans-Tisza Di- valid for three years. rectorates. Contact: The partners exchange their Dr. György Zoltán Kovács experience on the topics of National Directorate natural resources protection, for Environment, Nature institutional issues (consulta- and Water Protection tions and dialogue with the [email protected] Technical visit of a group of young experts users and operation of the Ri- www.ovf.hu ver Basin Council), economic

th issues, protection against When UNESCO launched its In 2004 the 500 partici- floods and non-point pollution. International Decade (IHD) in pant was received. 1965, Hungary was among the VITUKI's international course first countries to promote hy- has recently greatly developed drological training on an inter- in the Central and Eastern Eu- THE KÖRÖS/CRISURI national scale. ropean region. TRANSBOUNDARY BASIN Since then, the Water Re- The next course will be orga- sources Research Center (VI- nized from 1 April to 31 July On 23 November 2004, the The meeting enabled to detail TUKI) has regularly organized 2005 in the spirit of the up- representatives of the the draft action plan of the Post-Graduate Training Cour- coming UN Decade of Educa- French, Hungarian and Ro- project for 2005 and 2006. ses, primarily intended to de- tion for Sustainable Develop- manian Ministries of the Envi- The main objective is the veloping nations. Their objec- ment. ronment, of the International preparation of a harmonized tive was to acquaint the parti- Commission for the Protec- management plan on the two cipants with advanced theore- Contact: tion of the Danube River sides of the border and tes- tical and practical methods Dr. József Gayer (ICPDR), of the FFEM and ting the development of pro- Course Director used in hydrology and related VITUKI IOWater met in Paris to grams of measures, by inte- disciplines. Until today more launch the cooperation pro- grating data organization, than 80 countries have sent http://www.vituki.hu ject for the management of quality monitoring, economic young professionals to these the transboundary Körös / analysis, public participation courses. Crisuri Basin, tributary of the in decision-making and the Tisza, on the left bank of the prevention and control of ac- Danube. cidental pollution. ESTONIA "WATER" DIRECTIVES A one-year twinning arrange- Union’s requirements. The role The twinning must provide ning, drinking water and dan- ment between Estonia and of the two (Estonian and support to the formulation of gerous substances. France, dealing with the imple- French) Project Managers and investment plans for drinking The twinning included three mentation of the Directives on of the Resident Technical Advi- water supply and sanitation study tours of Estonian execu- "Drinking Water", "Urban ser (seconded by the Seine- and to take measures for elimi- tives in France: the first, in the Waste Water", "Dangerous Normandy Water Agency) is nating or reducing dangerous Maritime Alps, dealt with the Substances discharged into essential to take into account substances. organization of local authori- aquatic environments" and the context in which the local Three exchange and training ties, the role of municipal utili- their Daughter Directives departments, in charge of imple- seminars already took place: ties and private operators, the started in May 2004. menting the Directives, carry second took place in Paris and out their activities. N In Parnu, on the implemen- The twinning is led, on the Es- tation of the Waste Water Champagne regions and dealt tonian side by the Ministry of Since the launching of this Directive especially focu- with economic aspects, and the Environment, on the French twinning, French experts from sing on sludge removal. the third took place in Paris side by the Ministry of Ecology the Ministries of Ecology and and the Yvelines in depart- and Sustainable Development, Health, the General Council of N In Tallinn, on technologies ments of the Ministry of Health with the International Office for the Maritime Alps, the Loire- adapted to wastewater and in organizations involved Water as mandated operator. Brittany and Seine-Normandy treatment plants. with the Drinking Water Di- The objective is a real work Water Agencies, INERIS (Na- N In Kurtna, on the imple- rective. jointly carried out by the admi- tional Institute for Industrial mentation of the Drinking Water Directive. Contact: nistrations of the two countries Environment and Risks), Pierre Chantrel so that the new Member State BRGM (Office of Geological Others are planned to deal INBO PTS complies with the European and Mining Research) and with economic aspects, plan- [email protected] IOWater have intervened. The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 33 TRANSBOUNDARY COOPERATION BALKANS BETWEEN SERBIA & MONTENEGRO BALWOIS: AND NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES WATER OBSERVATION Now neighboring Slovenia, would be closely linked to the AND INFORMATION SYSTEM Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, implementation of the Euro- Macedonia, Hungary, Romania, pean Water Framework Direc- Its shared rivers, lakes and The Water Observation and Bulgaria and Albania, Serbia and tive (WFD). groundwater tables make the Information System in free ac- Montenegro has a very impor- Balkan Peninsula an earth of cess on Internet is based on a Serbia and Montenegro became tant location for the sustainable a full member of the ICPDR challenges to apply the con- very efficient Web Map inter- management of water re- cept of Integrated Water Re- face to access and display hy- (Danube River Protection Con- sources in the Balkans. It be- vention) in August of 2003. sources Management. drometeorological data classi- longs to the Danube river basin The transboundary waters fied by country, basin, river or and, with a smaller territory, to Budapest represent more than 95 % of station. the Adriatic river basin. Declaration the available resources of the The fruitful scientific BAL- Following the disastrous floods area. They are shared between WOIS 2004 international con- Bilateral cooperation that occurred between 1989 Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia & ference which was organized in and 2001, the Ministries res- Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece, Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia, Cooperation agreements were ponsible for flood control in Republic of Macedonia, Roma- 25 - 29 May 2004, brought to- signed with Hungary and Roma- the concerned countries ap- nia, Serbia & Montenegro, gether more than 300 partici- nia in 1955, with Bulgaria and proved the Budapest Declara- Slovenia and Turkey. This con- pants. Albania in 1956, but coopera- tion on 25 May 2001. This do- cerns the river basins of the The BALWOIS Project is tion was discontinued in 1986. cument establishes an interna- Drava, Sava, Morava, Drim / mainly funded by the European However, the present situa- tional cooperation with regard Drini, Vardar, Struma, Mes- Commission. tion is untenable as a result of to flood control in the Tisza ta/Nestos, Maritsa/Evros and The "Institut de Recherche the new geopolitical environ- river basin and addresses envi- the lakes Shkodar, Dojran, ment resulting from the break- ronmental issues. Ohrid and Prespa. pour le Développement" (Fran- ce), the National Meteorologi- up of the former Federal Re- The main concern of the BAL- public of Yugoslavia. The Sava cal and Hydrological Institutes River Basin WOIS Project is to create in and many scientific research or- The Ministry of Agriculture the Balkans a community of ganizations and universities of all and Water Management of Serbia and Montenegro, Croa- the main water stakeholders Balkan countries take part in Serbia has initiated the prepa- tia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and for: this project. ration of agreements and a ne- Slovenia approved on 3 Decem- I the implementation of a gotiation process with Croatia, ber 2002 in Kranjska Gora the Contact: Framework Agreement on the Water Observation and In- Marc Morell Bosnia & Herzegovina, and formation System, Macedonia on the sustainable Sava River Basin, which sets out Institut de Recherche pour le the principles of multilateral co- I the organization of confe- Développement management of transboundary Fax: + 33 4 67 41 21 33 water resources. operation for achieving sustai- rences, workshops, scienti- [email protected] nable water management in one fic visits and training cour- www.balwois.net Multilateral of the largest sub-basins of the ses, cooperation Danube and creating the Inter- I the dissemination of sui- For Serbia and Montenegro, it is national Commission for the Sa- table, reliable and compre- of the highest importance to es- va river basin. hensive knowledge to end- tablish a new framework for It is also necessary to establish users. multilateral cooperation, which better coordination between ICPDR and the Danube Com- Ohrid Lake between Macedonia and Albania mission, created by the Con- vention Regarding the Regime of Navigation on the Danube approved on 18 August 1948 in Belgrade. Contact: Dragana Milovanovic, Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management Directorate for Water Fax: + 381 11 311 53 70 [email protected] BULGARIA THE BLACK SEA BASIN DIRECTORATE The Black Sea Basin Direc- 2002 in conformity with the caring about equipment O Control Department: con- torate (BSBD) is a State insti- requirements of the Water which is exclusive State trolling the river beds ca- tution for administrating and Framework Directive and the property; pacity, water intake equip- protecting local surface wa- national legislation. O Monitoring, Analysis and ment, sanitation waste- ters and sea from pollution in It includes several depart- Informational Support De- water treatment plants; Eastern Bulgaria, including the ments: partment; O Relations with other Insti- administrative regions of Var- O Administrative and Eco- O Licenses and Permits De- tutions and PR Depart- na, Dobrich, Bourgas, Shou- nomic Department: assis- partment: for water use ment. men and Targovishte. ting the activities of the and/or use of water Contact: Based in Varna, it is a regional Basin Council; springs; Ventzislav Nikolov subdivision of the Ministry of O Planning and Basin Ma- O Water and Cadastre De- Black Sea Region Basin Environment and Waters. It nagement Department: partment; Directorate was created in December [email protected] The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 34 THE "GREAT RIVERS" RUSSIAN FEDERATION SIXTH INTERNATIONAL FORUM TRANSBOUNDARY COOPERATION The "Great Rivers - 2004" Fo- The joint exposition of the WITH NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES rum, which was devoted to the MNR included enterprises and sustainable socioeconomic de- institutions supervised by the The Ministry of Natural Re- UN ECE countries on pro- velopment in great river ba- Ministry. sources (MNR) of the Russian blems of integrated water use. sins, hosted 45 constituent Federation actively participa- The Forum included 12 sec- This cooperation mainly aims members of the Russian Fede- tions and seven "roundtables". ted in the preparation of multi- at: ration, 425 organizations from lateral documents to define Contacts: ² attracting international ex- 15 countries and 230 enter- the mains principles of the use prises and institutions. Lev Mysovskikh and protection of water re- pertise for solving pro- Sergey Belyaev blems; The Russian Architecture / RosNIIVKh sources and the main rules [email protected] governing the relations bet- ² interacting with neighbo- Construction Forum was held ween neighboring States for ring States in the sphere of at the same time, also on the same theme. the joint use of transboundary rational use and protection Océan Arctique

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MEDITERRANEAN NETWORK OF BASIN ORGANIZATIONS EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES 2003-2004 CREATION TWINBASIN CAPACITY BUILDING SYMPOSIUM OF THE NETWORK During the World General As- ON INTEGRATED WATER MANAGEMENT Since it was constituted in No- sembly of INBO, held in the AND IRRIGATION vember 2002, the Mediter- Martinique in January 2004, a ISTANBUL, 11-13 OCTOBER 2004 ranean Network of Basin Or- twinning agreement was si- ganizations has developed its gned between the Jucar Basin first activities and participated Confederation (CHJ) and the in various international work- Buzau-Ialomita basin (Apele shops and conferences within Romane) in Romania. INBO. With its new President 2ND GENERAL Juan J. Moragues Terrades, the main objective of the Network ASSEMBLY is to achieve closer coopera- The 2nd Liaison Bureau mee- tion among the different basin ting and the 2nd General As- organizations and entities in sembly of MENBO took place charge of water management on 11-13 October 2004 in Is- in the Mediterranean region. tanbul. MENBO adapted its final COLLABORATION MENBO and the Euro-Medi- ® Establishment, functioning statutes during its 1st General WITH EMWIS terranean Irrigators Commu- and modernization of wa- Assembly that was held in No- Throughout 2004, MENBO nity (EIC) organized an Inter- ter management institu- vember 2003 in Valencia started to collaborate with national Technical Symposium tions in the Mediterranean (Spain) within the framework EMWIS (Euro-Mediterranean within the Strategy Plan of the Region. of the International Seminar Information System on Know- Global Water Partnership- After this Symposium, the par- "Water Days". How in the Water Sector) to Mediterranean (GWP-Med) ticipants took part in the EURO-INBO exchange information on wa- and within the Mediterranean Mediterranean Dialogue on ter management in Mediter- Component of the EU Water the advances achieved regar- The Group of European Basin Initiative (EUWI). This event Organizations for the imple- ranean countries. ding the Mediterranean Strate- was held at the Kadir Has Uni- gy on Sustainable Develop- mentation of the Water th 6 FPRD versity of Istanbul. ment. During this Dialogue, Framework Directive (WFD) MENBO actively participates was created during this semi- There were 50 participants MENBO and EIC had the op- in different projects within the representing basin organiza- portunity to present the Sym- nar. The Jucar Basin Authority 6th Framework Program on (CHJ) has chaired the Euro- tions, administrations in charge posium results to the NGOs Research and Development of of water management and irri- and other Mediterranean INBO Liaison Bureau until the the EC: MELIA, SISMICA, Group meeting held in gators associations coming stakeholders who participated TWINBASIN and IWRM.Net. rd Krakow, Poland, on 25-30 from: Algeria, Egypt, France, in the 3 Meeting of the Circle September 2004. The Jucar Greece, Morocco, Portugal, of Mediterranean Parliamen- river basin is the Spanish pilot Spain and Turkey. tarians for Sustainable Deve- river basin in which is tested The participants made inte- lopment (COMPSUD). the implementation of all resting presentations within Contact: Guidance Documents of the four working sessions: Permanent Technical WFD. Secretariat ® IWRM evolution in Medi- Tel: + 34 963938942 terranean countries at the [email protected] River Basin level. http://www.remoc.org ® Water Users Associations and Basin Organizations in the Mediterranean: Role in Water Management. ® Adjustment of irrigation in Mediterranean countries towards a sustainable agri- cultural model.

Marrakech (Morocco) 23 – 25 May 2005 General Assembly of the Mediterranean Network of Basin Organizations MENBO

The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 36 THE MEDITERRANEAN EMWIS : PHASE II - 2003 / 2006 decided to held a meeting of Euro-Mediterranean the General Directors of the cooperation 35 countries of the en- larged Euro-Mediterra- The European Commission de- nean Partnership in 2005 to cided to disseminate through inform the 10 new members of EMWIS any information on all the European Union and to the projects relative to the wa- present a progress report. ter sector and co-financed in the Mediterranean region, Four priority topics were whatever the program (Deve- also defined for carrying lopment Aid, Environment, Re- out experience summa- search and Development, etc.): ries: ‚ use of non-conven- any information on the Regional tional water resources, ƒ the Euro-Mediterranean Program European Water Framework on local water management Directive, „ management of (MEDA-water) and on the irrigation water, integrated Mediterranean Component of The Euro-Mediterranean While maintaining the overall management of drinking water the European Union Water Ini- Information System on objective of strengthening re- supply, sanitation and waste- tiative (EUWI) is now available know-how in the water gional cooperation in the wa- water. on-line on EMWIS website. sector - EMWIS - already ter sector, the approach con- Electronic flash proposes direct access to sists in developing EMWIS as Cooperation the information managed an integrated network of in the Arabic language with INBO by 14 countries of the National Water Informa- In addition to its bilingual infor- The cooperation with INBO, ini- Mediterranean region (Al- tion Systems. mation services (French-En- tiated in 2002, is continuing. glish), such as the multilingual geria, Cyprus, France, Thus, each Mediterranean Thus, during the INBO General Greece, Israel, Italy, Jor- topical directory (that invento- Assembly of 2004, a reflection Partner Country benefits ries more than 2,500 organiza- dan, Lebanon, Malta, Mo- from a specific support to was launched on the develop- rocco, Palestine, Portugal, tions), to the electronic fo- ment of a Worldwide Water In- prepare the development rums or even the national and Spain and Turkey). of its own national inte- formation System, based on international legislations on EMWIS approach in the Medi- The contract for financing phase grated system. water, EMWIS now publi- 2 of EMWIS was signed on During the meeting, held in terranean region and on similar st shes its monthly electronic systems in other regions of the 1 December 2003 by the Euro- Malta on 5 May 2004, EMWIS flash in three languages: pean Commission, France, Italy Steering Committee defined world (for example AQUA- Arabic, English and French DOC in Central Europe). and Spain for a 3-year period. the rules for allowing all the (close to 6,000 recipients). Mediterranean Third Coun- Other services will be very For more information: tries (MTC) to take part and quickly available in Arabic. http://www.emwis.org MOROCCO PROGRESS ACHIEVED BY A DECADE OF REFORMS Ten years will have passed On the joint initiative of the presented the organization and A synthesis of the workshops since the promulgation of the World Bank and AFD, a syn- the functioning of Basin Organi- was presented on the following Moroccan law of 1995, which thesis seminar on the thinking zations in Brazil, Spain and Me- day to the Authorities con- reorganized the water sector. caused by this sectoral analysis xico, as well as the building cerned and will be used as a ba- In addition to a significant took place in Rabat in ONEP process of the French Water sis for useful recommendations regulatory work needed to training center on last 8 and 9 Agencies, from 1964 to 1974, to continue the significant re- draft the implementation de- December. and a typology of the basin insti- form effort already made. tutions over the world. crees, significant reforms gra- Work began on 8 December Contact : dually took place during this with two workshops mobilizing A lively and constructive de- Jean-Claude PIRES decade, the creation of the the representatives of all the bate followed with, in particu- French Development Agency River Basin Agencies in parti- Ministries and Public Establish- lar, interventions from all the (AFD) Fax: 01 53 44 38 66 cular. It is true that Morocco ments concerned, one devoted Directors of the new Moroc- [email protected] has reached an exceptional to drinking water supply and can Basin Agencies. control of its abundant water sanitation utilities, the other to resources for more than half a water resource management century. and, in particular, to the cre- Workshop on resource management The World Bank, with the ation of River Basin Agencies. French Development Agency This last workshop was led by (AFD), assessed the situation, Mr. R. BALAFREEJ, Adviser to the successes and difficulties the Moroccan Minister for the which still remain, in a sectoral Environment, and introduced analysis, whose findings were by Mr. J.C. PIRES of the AFD. already discussed by working Mr. A. ZIYAD of the MATEE groups mobilizing all the Mo- presented the situation of the roccan public stakeholders of Moroccan River Basin Agencies the water sector. and Mr. J.F. DONZIER, INBO Permanent Technical Secretary,

The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 37 ALGERIA ABH ALGÉROIS-HODNA-SOUMMAM FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC "TWINBASIN" This program wi- On the occasion of the Algerian operation on water manage- dens its audience Year in France, during the Pol- ment at the level of river basins. each year. lutec Exhibition in Paris, the Al- This agreement is signed for a During the World gérois-Hodna-Soummam Basin renewable three-year period, Water Day on 22 Agency signed a twinning agree- within the "TwinBasin" pro- March 2004, the ment with the Seine-Normandy gram of the International Net- children, winners Water Agency on 4 December work of Basin Organizations. of the drawing 2003. This agreement deals with contest, received a scientific and technical co- their prizes from the Minister for RAMSAR CONVENTION Water Resources. Concerned by the significance awareness on the need to pre- For three years, the water clas- In its exhibition stand at the and impact of overexploitation serve the wetlands classified by ses have been a success which is "University-Company Forum" and by the carelessness of va- the Ramsar Convention, as still continuing. Indeed, the and during the 1st Trade Show rious users, either farmers, in- they have a vital role in the na- Agency offers, in the field of on the Environment, which dustrialists or local communi- tural development of the hy- children education, to the pupils took place in June 2004 in Blida, ties, the Agency decided to in- drological process. of some schools of the capital the Agency displayed the policy form them and raise their and to their teachers an educa- for integrated water resource tional facilitation regarding the management in Algeria. SOON water cycle and the quantitative O Educational tools, intended O The Agency also plans to and qualitative uses of water re- for the general public and develop communication sources. children, will be created "to means (intranet and Inter- preserve water with simple net). acts". WATER INFORMATION SYSTEMS The 2004 Algerian-French co- tion including the water G An initiation of the ABHs’ tional Institute of Cartography operation program in the wa- cadastre; staff to the GIS functionali- and Remote Sensing), ANAT ter sector, for a "Support to G A presentation of the ties; (National Agency for Regional the River Basin Agencies French experience in "wa- G A review of the coding Planning), and their French (ABH)", includes a component ter" data management; used for water resources in counterparts. on the organization of "Basin G A detailed analysis of the France and Europe; Contact: Information Systems". various information systems G The organization of a 'think Algérois-Hodna-Soummam In accordance with the ABHs’ of the National Water Re- tank' on the possibilities for Basin Agency wishes, the following assign- Tel. / Fax : 213 2 68.75.17 / sources Agency (ANRH), coding surface waters 28.71.28 - Tel. : 28.22.67 ments were carried out: main producer of water- (Wadis, lakes, etc.) in Alge- [email protected] G A synthetic analysis of the related data in Algeria; ria. www.abh-ahs.com water information systems G The production of a first These assignments took place existing in Algeria; standard entity-relation in the form of working and G An assessment of the model planned for the wa- training workshops, gathering ABHs’ needs for informa- ter cadastre; the ABHs, ANRH, INCT (Na- TURKEY IMPLEMENTATION OF THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE Following the pilot project on 1997 to 1999 in the Aegean ration, the objective of the Framework Directive (Ar- integrated water resource river basins and Izmir Bay, with MATRA program, funded by ticle 3); management, carried out from the support of French Coope- the Dutch Government, is to Improvement of know- assist Turkey with the imple- ledge of EU legislation; The Bosphorus in Istanbul mentation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) Definition of methods for at the national and regional le- the characterization of ri- vel. It is designed to improve ver basins, of environmen- collaboration and coordination tal objectives, pressures between the different institu- and impacts, economic tions responsible for water analyses of water uses and management and to aim for a preparation of river basin participatory and integrated management plans; approach in water manage- Preparation of a River ment planning in Turkey. Basin Management Plan for The expected results are as the Uluabat pilot basin; follows: Information of the public Definition of River Basin and policy makers. Districts according to the requirements of the Water The Network Newsletter - N° 13 - December 2004 - January 2005 38 MEDITERRANEAN BASIN "SMART" The SMART project for "Sus- scientific, socioeconomic and It is working on innovative SUMER (Turkey), NCRS tainable management of water political components. It is being methodologies and equipping (Lebanon), University of Jor- resources in coastal zones", implemented in close collabora- the Mediterranean Basin re- dan (Jordan), CEDARE and the co-financed by the European tion with managers and deci- search teams with high-perfor- University of Alexandria Commission in the framework sion-makers on five pilot sites: mance numerical tools for (Egypt), CNT (Tunisia). of the INCO-MED A3 pro- the Bay of Abu Ali in Lebanon, modeling water quality in Contact: gram was launched in 2002 for the Bay of Izmir in Turkey, the coastal zones. Catherine Freissinet a period of three years. Gulf of Aqaba in Jordan, Ham- The Project partners are ESS SOGREAH SMART is based on a multidisci- mamet in Tunisia and the Bay of (Austria), SOGREAH (France), Fax: 33 (0)4 76 33 43 32 plinary approach including Abu Kir in Egypt. FEEM (Italy), EIA (Portugal), [email protected] CYPRUS IMPLEMENTATION OF THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE sions of the WFD are the Wa- At the same time Cyprus is al- ter Development Department so facing specific challenges re- and the Environment Service. lated to regional and/or local The implementation problems situations and conditions such are: as: G Lack of quantitative and O Frequent extended droughts. qualitative data and of a na- O Coastal waters sometimes tional database system. affected by nutrients from G Insufficient coordination activities. among responsible authori- O Aquifer exhaustion and ties and stakeholders. salinization in the coastal G Lack of expertise and rele- areas. vant human resources. O Increased irrigation tends G The mentality of certain to aggravate problems. water users, who consider O The construction of a large water as their own proper- number of dams reduces ty. groundwater recharge and Cyprus is the third largest is- with effect from 22 December G The high implementation increases saline intrusion. land in the Mediterranean after 2004. cost. The implementation of the Sicily and Sardinia. The Island of Cyprus is subdi- G The extremely tight and WFD is quite timely as the wa- Most of the rivers have their vided into 9 hydrological re- demanding timetable. ter resources of Cyprus are springs in the Troodos Moun- gions made up of 70 water- G The fragmentation of the facing increasing pressures. tains, but have no perennial sheds. As there are no rivers water legislation and po- There is no time like the pre- flow. with perennial flow, the whole wers. sent to tackle the challenges island is considered as a single Most of these problems will be for current and future genera- It is essential to provide suffi- tions. cient, safe, clean, healthy and River Basin District. rectified through the new Law, reliable water for domestic The competent authority for currently being redrafted at Contact: and irrigation needs and for the application of the Directive the Law Office of the Republic. Elias Kambourides, Ministry of Agriculture, Natural the environment. is the Ministry of Agriculture, Resources and Environment Cyprus has fully transposed Natural Resources and Envi- Fax: 00 357 22 67 50 19 the WFD into national legisla- ronment. The two main "agen- [email protected] tion through the "Water Pro- cies" of the Ministry responsi- tection and Management Law", ble for implementing the provi- NEXT INBO MEETINGS

Marrakech Namur Mexico (Morocco) (Walloon Region – Belgium) (Mexico) 23-25 May 2005 29 Sept. – 1st Oct. 2005 18 March 2006 General Assembly 3rd Assembly of the Group 4th World Water Forum of the Mediterranean of European Basin "Participation of the public Network of Basin Organizations and water users in basin Organizations for the Implementation management" MENBO of the Framework Directive EURO-INBO

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