IWRM in EECCA countries
Palle Lindgaard Jørgensen Technical
Secretariat
Helsinki, 24-15 May 2007
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Environmental flow ensured
=> Salinity intrusion under control
Municipal wastewater standards enforced
Urban sewer systems installed
=> Urban water pollution reduced
Industrial water quality standards enforced
Polluter-pays principle in enforced
Use of agro-chemical regulated
=> industrial water pollution controlled
=> Agricultural water pollution controlled
(surface- and groundwater)
Deforestation halted
Watershed management
practiced
=> Soil erosion under control
Reservoir releases negotiated
with city:
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=>Max. flood releases ensured
=>Min dry season flows ensured
Groundwater extractions regulated
=> Groundwater levels stabilized
Water resources policy and law adopted and enforced
=> incl. policy and legal framework for water supply and sanitation
=> incl. financing mechanisms and tariff system for water and sanitation
River basin planning and management structures in place
Water allocation and water right systems in place
Climate adaptation measures being introduced
=> incl. measures to adapt to extreme events (floods and droughts)
Integrated Water Resources Management being implemented
Managing competing uses
Cross-sectoral integration
• Enabling
environment
• Institutions
• Management
instruments
Water
for
people
Water
for
food
Water
for
nature
Water
for
other
uses
IWRM –water supply - what are the
links?
• Water supply is in most countries considered as
a ”sectoral water service” just like irrigation,
hydropower etc.
• IWRM provides a necessary framework for the
sectoral water services for water resources:
policies and legislation, monitoring, planning and
allocation, use permits, compliance and
enforcement, financial management
• IWRM plans are the plans to establish the
framework
Links between IWRM, Water supply
and financing
• IWRM can support planning of adequate and
safe resources of water
• IWRM can link health issues into water
resources planning
• IWRM needs financing to run the management
of water resources and to invest in water
development infrastructure
• IWRM can be paid by the government budget or
the users of water- however financing should be
sustainable
IWRM –importance for water
supply
• Water management policies, laws also
comprise water use for drinking water and
discarge of waste water
• Water quality standards as part of the
legislation
• Standards for pollution discarge
• Monitoring of surface and groundwater
and source water quality
IWRM; Importance for water supply
• Planning and allocation in river basinssecuring water quantity and quality, land
use planning
• Water permits- rules and procedures for
abstraction for drinking water and discarge
of waste water
• Compliance and enforcement (water
supply and sanitation sector service)
IWRM; Importance for water supply
• Protection of drinking water sources
• Prioritization of capital investments in river
basins
• Financing of IWRM, financing mechanisms
and integration into national budget
system
• User pay systems- cost recovery
Financial analysis of IWRM
• Costs functions: Institutional framework
including capacity building;
• investments and O&M in water resources
infrastucture (channels, weirs, monitoring
equipment, laboratories) sector water service
infrastructure (part of infrastructure to be
covered by WRM)
• Income functions: Water use permits, fees and
fines; national budgets, donor and loans
• Economic value of water
Global and regional progress
towards IWRM 2005 Plans
GWP 95 JWF 85 UNEP
EECCA
countries countries 37 coun. 12 coun.
Good
21%
Progress
28%
8%
33%
Some
53%
progress
57%
62%
50%
Limited 26%
progress
15%
30%
17%
IWRM progress- EECCA
• EECCA a little better than the global
average- however lagging behind EU-25
• EECCA good/some progress in policies,
laws and strategies- less in institutional
reforms
• EECCA much focus on transboundary
water management- less on national
IWRM
Main obstacles for IWRM in
globally and in EECCA
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Limited capacity- human and institutional
Low awareness at all levels
Poor political support
Inadequate funding- support to water
sector is generally decreasing-most focus
on WSS
• Plans not adapted to local conditions and
lagging implementation