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Session 1: 09:00 to 10:45 (CET) Interpretation French - English only

Session 2: 16:00 to 17:45 (CET) Interpretation French - Spanish only
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The effectiveness of water resources management requires a legislative framework established at the country level which sets the principles of water resources management and the rules to be applied at all levels: basin, sub-basin, region or urban district.

These regulations define the conditions for water uses, the exploitation of resources, conditions for withdrawals, compliance with concessions, the discharge of polluted water, the procedures for obtaining authorizations related to any action that has an impact on aquatic environments such wetlands, surface water or groundwater, the modalities of water resources management planning as well as the modalities of control of the implementation of the regulatory framework.

There is a necessity to organize and put in place a system entrusted with the overall mission to ensure « water law enforcement », or in other words to control and monitor compliance to these regulations.

Indeed, experience shows that progress in water management as well as in the (qualitative, quantitative and ecological) status of water resources depend on the existence and proper functioning of such a system.

How should a water law enforcement system be organized? Based on the experience and know-how of certain countries, what fundamental recommendations can be drawn in order to achieve the effectiveness of controls and to materialize water law enforcement in the field?

Echoing World Water Day (22 March), the theme of which this year is "valuing water", INBO organizes this series of two webinar sessions. The objective is to present the answers provided by States from the four corners of the world.  

This webinar series will feed into the preparation of a methodological and practical handbook on the organization of water law enforcement, or “Water police”. The handbook, produced by INBO, will be published on the occasion of the World Water Forum in March 2022.

 

 

 

SESSION 1 :   9:00 – 10:45 (Central European Time CET) - Interpretation French - English only

Opening
•    Mr. Eric Tardieu, Secretary General, International Network of Basin Organizations (INBO)

The Handbook on “WATER LAW ENFORCEMENT”
•    Présentation Mr. Daniel Valensuela, Deputy Secretary General, INBO Technical Secretariat

French and chinese approach to water law enforcement
•   Approche française de la police de l'eau - M. Pascal Lagrabe, Head of the Controls Department, French Biodiversity Office (OFB), France
•   River Chief Systems in China - M. Jin Hai, Director General, International Centre for Economic and Technical Cooperation and Exchange (INTCE), Ministry of Water Resources, China

First section of questions and answers

Intervention of great wutnesses
Our key witnesses will share their professional experience on how to organize a water law enforcement:
•  Water Resources Management and the rules to be applied : Case of the Tonle Sap Great Lake basin in Cambodia - Mr. Puy Lim, Chairman, Tonle Sap Basin Authority, Cambodia
•  Water Law Enforcement in Romania  - Mr Gheorghe Constantin, Director of Water Resources Management, Romania
•  Police de l'eau au Burkina Faso, Caractéristiques, expériences et défis - Mr Serge Traoré, Director General of Water Resources, Ministry of Water and Sanitation, Burkina Faso

Second section of questions and answers

Conclusion
•    Mr. Eric Tardieu, Secretary General, International Network of Basin Organizations (INBO)

 

SESSION 2 : de 16h00 à 17h45 (CET / heure de Paris) - Interpretation French - Spanish only

Opening

•    Mr. Eric Tardieu, Secretary General, International Network of Basin Organizations (INBO)

The handbook on “water law enforcement”

•    Presentación  M. Daniel Valensuela, Deputy Secretary General, INBO Technical Secretariat

Spanish and Quebecois approaches to water policing

•    Le modèle québécois - Mr. Michel Rousseau, Assistant Deputy Minister of Environmental Control and Dam Safety, Ministry of the Environment and the Fight against Climate Change, Québec
•    Enfoque Español - Mr. Miguel Polo, President, Jucar Hydrographic Confederation, Permanent Technical Secretary of the Mediterranean Network of Basin Organizations (MENBO), Spain

First section of questions and answers

Intervention of great witnesses

•   Regulación y gestión de los recursos hídricos en zonas de conflicto en Brasil: el caso del Distrito Federal -  Mr. Jorge Werneck, Director, Water, Energy and Sanitation Agency of the Federal District of Brasília (ADASA), Brazil
•  Faire respecter les règlementations du secteur de l’eau : nécessité et fonctions d’une police de l’eau -  Ms. Soumaya Rkiouak, Chief of the Department of Control and Management of the Public Hydraulic Domain, Ministry of Public Works, Transport, Logistics and Water (METLE), Kingdom of Morocco
•   Marco normativo para el uso y control del agua en el Perú - Mr. Pantalion Huachani, Director of the Jequetepeque-Zarumilla Water Management Authority, National Water Authority (ANA), Peru

SECOND SECTION OF QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Conclusion

•     Mr. Eric Tardieu, Secretary General, International Network of Basin Organizations (INBO)