Primer coloquio jurídico internacional sobre regulación y manejo integral de los recursos hídricos: Síntesis de Ponencias

CONAGUA
México, D. F.
Diciembre de 2008

Mesa 1: El Agua en la Preservación del Medio Ambiente
Mesa 2: Distribución de Funciones para el Manejo del Agua
Mesa 3: Instrumentos Económicos y Financieros para el Manejo del Agua
Mesa 4: Manejo del Agua en Cuencas y Acuíferos Transfronterizos
Mesa 5: El Agua en el Desarrollo Urbano
Mesa 6: El Agua en el Desarrollo Agrícola
Mesa 7: La Participación Social en el Manejo del Agua

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Diagnóstico del nivel de contaminación de los recursos hídricos del Lago Titicaca

Autoridad Binacional Autónoma del Sistema Hídrico del LAgo Titicacaca, Rio Desaguadero, Lago Poopo y Salar de Coipasa - ALT



Los objetivos del Estudio son:

Objetivos generales

· Determinar la contaminación existente en el Lago Titicaca.
· Permitir al Gobierno Boliviano elaborar políticas y planes de descontaminación, priorizando los principales problemas detectados.
· Permitir la planificación y ejecución de proyectos binacionales de descontaminación del Lago Titicaca, que incluyan medidas destinadas a reducir o eliminar las causas que generan la contaminación, a través de la introducción de tecnologías limpias y prácticas ambientales adecuadas.
· Constituir la base para elaborar estrategias que permitan mejorar la calidad del recurso hídrico e incentiven un aprovechamiento sostenible de los recursos naturales existentes.

Objetivos específicos

· Evaluar la carga contaminante de todos y cada uno de sus afluentes.
· Evaluar la carga contaminante de las actividades antrópicas.
· Desarrollar metodologías de medición de caudal de descarga y métodos de análisis para determinar su carga contaminante.
· Desarrollar metodologías de muestreo y análisis de lodos y sedimentos.
· Desarrollar programas de educación ambiental que promuevan la participación de los habitantes en la conservación y preservación del ambiente.

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Rega: Revista de de gestión de agua de América Latina

Vol 5 No 2
Jul/Dez 2008
Associação Brasileira de Recursos Hídricos

Rega es una revista propuesta por la GWP-Global Water Partnership de América del Sur, y cuenta con el apoyo de varias entidades nacionales y regionales en el área de
recursos hídricos, entre ellas: CEPAL, BID, Banco Mundial, ABRH - Associação Brasileira de Recursos Hídricos, IARH - Instituto Argentino de Recursos Hidricos, Red
Cap-Net Argentina, APRH - Asociación Paraguaya de Recursos Hidricos, Sociedade Brasileira de Limnologia, Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Educación,
da Ciencia y la Cultura, Organización de los Estados Americanos y RIGA - Red de Investigación y Gestión Ambiental de la Cuenca del Plata.

El objetivo de la revista es divulgar el conocimiento adquirido en las Americas sobre la Gestión Integrada de Recursos Hídricos. Se considera importante el intercambio
de información entre los diferentes actores en el área de Recursos Hídricos: técnicos, tomadores de decisiones del gobierno y de instituciones privadas, miembros de comités y agencias de cuenca, usuarios de recursos hídricos, etc.

Los principales aspectos enfatizados son los siguientes:
- resultados comparativos y experiencias sobre políticas públicas en recursos hídricos;
- influencia económica de los recursos hídricos sobre las cadenas productivas;
- gestión y gerenciamiento integrado de recursos hídricos dentro de una visión interdisciplinaria;
- aspectos institucionales y de gestión de recursos hídricos y medio ambiente;
- sectores usuarios del agua e impactos sobre la sociedad.

Contenido:

A efetividade dos Instrumentos de política urbana nos dilemas ambientais com águas urbanas / 5
Celmar C. de Oliveira, Carlos A. B. Mendes

Tratamento de águas cinzas claras para reúso não potável em edificações / 15
Simone May, Ivanildo Hespanhol

Análise crítica da calibração do modelo de qualidade de água qual 2e – estudo de caso da bacia do Alto Iguaçu / 25
Heloise Garcia Knapik, Marianne Schaefer França, Cristovão Vicente Scapulatempo Fernandes, Letícia Santos Masini, Maria Cristina Frisch Carvalho Marin, Monica Ferreira do Amaral Porto

Agricultores familiares e participação na gestão das águas na bacia do Itajaí/SC / 39
Cíntia Uller-Gómez, Luiz Fernando Scheibe, Maria José Reis

La reforma de la gestión del agua en el estado de Río Grande del Sur (Brasil), 1979-2006 / 53
Janine F. Haase, Ricardo A. Gutiérrez

Gestão integrada das águas urbanas / 71
Carlos E. M. Tucci

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Water for People: Monitoring Report Honduras 2009

Water for people
2009



Seven volunteers from the World Water Corps joined four members of the Water For People Honduras in-country staff in late May 2009 to conduct monitoring in 17 communities within the municipalities of San Antonio in the department of Cortés, Chinda and Concepción del Norte within the department of Santa Bárbara, and El Negrito in the department of Yoro in the interior highlands of Honduras. Of the 17 communities visited, 13 involved both water and sanitation projects, three involved only water projects, and one involved only latrines. Hygiene practices were evaluated in all communities visited. Water committee members were interviewed in 16 of the communities visited and 84 resident surveys were administered. The majority of water projects consisted of private household taps from gravity-fed systems fed from either capped springs or surface water sources. As noted above, most communities with water projects also had sanitation projects consisting of resident latrines separated from the home. One village visited was also the beneficiary of a new ecological sanitation (ECOSAN) latrine pilot project intended to provide sanitation support where water projects are not currently present

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Tratos justos para servicios hidrológicos en Bolivia

Niguel Asquith
María Teresa Vargas
Natura Bolivia
International Institute for Environment and Development
2007

A pesar de numerosos intentos de manejo integrado de cuencas (MIC) en Bolivia, han habido muy pocos casos exitosos. Los proyectos MIC se han enfocado en incrementar o manejar la oferta a través de represas, construcción de infraestructura y pocas veces se han enfocado en mejorar la eficiencia o el manejo de la demanda. A nivel nacional, el manejo generalmente ha sido a través de leyes y regulaciones impuestas de arriba hacia abajo, pocas de éstas han tenido éxito. A pesar que Bolivia es uno de los países con mayor agua per capita del mundo, y la demanda es aproximadamente el 1% de la oferta, la escasez de agua localizada continua generando conflictos.

Como parte de un proyecto multi-nacional coordinado por el Instituto Internacional
de Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo, en el 2004 la Fundación Natura Bolivia inició un
análisis para conocer si los mecanismos de mercado para el manejo de cuencas
pueden mejorar las condiciones de vida en áreas rurales de Bolivia. Este análisis
se diseñó para analizar la historia del país en relacion al manejo de sus recursos
naturales, el contexto social, político, económico y biofísico y a partir de ello,
evaluar cuándo y cómo, dado el contexto, las herramientas de mercado o incentivos
similares a los del mercado, pueden ser utilizados para mejorar la gestión hídrica,
mejorar los ingresos y medios de vida de los residentes de las cuencas.

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Pagos por servicios hídricos: Las conversaciones de Bellagio

Fundación Natura
2009



Del 12 al 17 de marzo del 2007, 24 personas de 13 países se encontraron en el Bellagio Center de la Fundación Rockefeller en el Lago Como (Italia) para debatir lecciones aprendidas de experiencias recientes a nivel global con los pagos por servicios hídricos (PSH). El objetivo de la reunión de Bellagio fue considerar cómo se podría utilizar estas experiencias y conocimientos para mejorar la eficiencia del manejo de cuencas. Creemos que el resultado—las “Conversaciones de Bellagio”—puede iluminar unos de los temas de PSH más importantes, apremiantes, complejos y poco debatidos. Nuestra esperanza es que estas conversaciones inspiren a otros a enfrentar las oportunidades y retos de los pagos por servicios hídricos.

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Plan Federal de Control de Inundaciones: Area pampeana central

Unidad de Coordinación de Fideicomisos de Infraestructura - UCOFIN
Subsecretaría de Recursos Hídricos - Argentina

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Plan Hidráulico Provincial

Dirección provincial de Saneamiento y Obras Hidráulicas
Ministerio de Infraestructura, Vivienda y Servicios Públicos
Diciembre 2007



Plan
Texto de la Norma
Anexo A (I)
Anexo B (II)

V Jornada del Agua "Convención Ramsar"

Instituto para la Conservación de Ecosistemas Acuáticos - ICEA Bolivia
Marzo 2009



El Instituto para la Conservación de Ecosistemas Acuáticos-ICEA, con el apoyo de AVINA, la Red Nueva Cultura del Agua Bolivia y las Carreras de Biología y Ciencias Ambientales de la Facultad de Ciencias Agrícolas de la Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Romero - U.A.G.R.M., organizaron el día 26 de marzo del 2009, la V Jornada del Agua. El Taller estuvo enfocado en conocer la Convención Ramsar y su aplicación en Bolivia además de destacar los avances realizados en algunos Sitios Ramsar de Bolivia.

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Guía para la Elaboración de Planes de Manejo de Microcuencas

IUCN
Basada en la sistematización de la experiencia del Proyecto Tacaná desarrollada en San Marcos, Guatemala.
Primera edición.
2009



*La presente Guía para la Elaboración de Planes de Manejo de Microcuencas surge en el marco de los procesos desarrollados por la Comisión Nacional de Microcuencas de Guatemala. Instancia creada para contribuir con el desarrollo rural del país, mediante el enfoque de cuencas como base para la planificación de acciones para el uso de los recursos naturales.

De manera sintética, amena y de fácil comprensión da a conocer técnicas, elementos conceptuales y metodológicos. Se ha enriquecido especialmente con las experiencias de campo del Proyecto Tacaná de Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza –UICN– que se desarrolla en el departamento de San Marcos y con los aportes técnicos de profesionales e instituciones que trabajan en la temática, entre ellas la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación –FAO–, la Unidad Especial de Ejecución de Desarrollo Integral de Cuencas Hidrográficas/Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Alimentación –UEEDICH/MAGA–, el Ministerio de Ambiente y Recursos Naturales –MARN–, Unidad de Recursos Hídricos y Cuencas –URHYC–, Dirección de Gestión Ambiental y Recursos Naturales –DIGARN–, Centro de Cooperación International para la Pre inversión Agrícola –CIPREDA– y el Programa Nacional de Desarrollo Rural –PRORURAL–.

Está diseñada como documento de consulta para implementar procesos participativos de desarrollo local, en los cuales se involucre directamente a las comunidades, por medio de los Consejos Comunitarios de Desarrollo –COCODE– u otras formas de organización social. Se recomienda que los usuarios y facilitadores participen en un proceso de capacitación antes de implementarla.

Estimados comunitarios, técnicos y lectores en general: les invitamos a conocer y a poner en práctica esta guía, principalmente para involucrar a las comunidades en el manejo adecuado de los recursos de la microcuenca.
*De la introducción del documento

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Reunión internacional de competitividad del sector agua: Los servicios de agua potable y saneamiento en zonas urbanas

Instituto Mexicano de Tecnología del Agua
Octubre 2009



Listado de conferencistas y ponencias de la 1° Reunión Internacional de Competitividad del Sector Agua: "Los Servicios de Agua Potable y Saneamiento en Zonas Urbanas" que se llevó a cabo del 2 al 4 de setiembre, la cual tuvo como propósito buscar mejores alternativas para promover la eficiencia y la competitividad.

Enlace principal

Presentaciones y ponencias I

Presentaciones y ponencias II

Presentaciones y ponencias III

Videos-Presentaciones

In the Pipeline: Water for the Poor - Investing in Small Piped Water Networks

Asian Development Bank
February 2009



DB's new toolkit on investing in small piped water networks (SPWNs) offers guidance to governments, development agencies, utilities, and civil society in putting up or implementing piped water projects using the SPWN concept for urban poor or rural communities without access to piped water systems.

The tool kit was conceived and developed as a result of the lessons and experiences from an ADB study on Implementing Pilot Projects for Small Piped Water Networks, as well as from the experiences of professionals and development agencies in implementing similar projects.

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Water Safety Plan Manual: Step-by-step risk management for drinking-water suppliers

World Health Organization
2009.



“The most effective means of consistently ensuring the safety of a drinking-water supply is through the use of a comprehensive risk assessment and risk management approach that encompasses all steps in water supply from catchment to consumer. In these Guidelines, such approaches are called water safety plans (WSPs)”.

Purpose of the Manual
The words above open Chapter 4 of the Third Edition of the WHO Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality (2004) and capture the philosophy of the WSP approach. The chapter describes the principles of the WSP approach rather than being a guide to their practical application. The aim of this Manual is to provide that practical guidance to facilitate WSP development focusing
particularly on organized water supplies managed by a water utility or similar entity.

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Manual para el desarrollo de planes de seguridad del agua: metodología pormenorizada de gestión de riesgos para proveedores de agua de consumo.

(UN) Bundling Infrastructure Procurement: Evidence from Water Supply and Sewage Projects

Antonio Estache
Atsushi Iimi
World Bank
Policy Research Working Paper 4854
March 2009

Competition in public procurement auctions in the water supply and sanitation sector is largely limited. This is partly because of high technical complexity and partly because of auction design flaws. The division of lot contracts is an important policy choice for auctioneers to achieve efficiency. In general, there is a tradeoff between competition in auctions and size of contracts. Larger works could benefit from economies of scale and scope, but large contracts might undermine competition. Using data on public procurement auctions for water and sewage projects in developing countries, this paper shows that bidder entry is crucially endogenous, especially because it is determined by the auctioneer's bundling and unbundling strategy. If water treatment plant and distribution network works are bundled in a single lot package, competition would be significantly reduced, and this adverse entry effect would in turn raise the public procurement costs of infrastructure. There is no evidence of positive scope economies in the bidder cost structure. It is important to account for the underlying cost structure for designing efficient auction mechanisms.

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Guatemala: Towards IWRM in the Basin of Lake Atitlán

Case study #9
Global Water Partnership Toolbox

The Lake Atitlán basin is a closed watershed located in the volcanic highlands of Guatemala, Central America with competing uses and serious problems of water pollution, soil erosion and forest and biodiversity losses. In 1996 the Authority for the Sustainable Management of the Atitlán Basin (AMSCLAE) was established; it produced a Master Plan in 2000. However, the plan is still under revision; only a few measures are being undertaken, in a fragmented manner. Thus so far the impact of any water resources management measures taken in the Lake Atitlán basin has been limited.

The main barriers to success are the lack of public participation, institutional coordination, investment funds and funding for AMSCLAE. Legislation establishing AMSCLAE failed to specify a source for funding its operations. The major beneficiaries of the lake (e.g. hotels and wealthy homeowners) contribute nothing to lake conservation costs.

The Master Plan itself is controversial, which had delayed approval. Review by government agencies suggests that some projects have been inappropriately assigned to agencies without the proper implementation mandate. There is no overall coordination among relevant agencies, most of which are hampered by inadequate financial resources and are staffed with technical people, rather than decision-makers.

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Panama: The management of the Panama canal watershed

Case study #5
Global Water Partnership Toolbox

The Panama Canal Watershed (PCW) was developed when the Panama Canal was constructed (1904-1914). The PCW unites the basins of the Chagres and Grande Rivers into a single hydraulic system. The Chagres and Grande Rivers drain into the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, respectively. Damming the Chagres River provides water to operate the canal locks. By the mid 1930’s, an additional lake had been created in the upper basin of the Chagres River to increase the water storage capacity of the system. In 1999, the formal limits of the PCW were established by law and segments of the Indio, Caño Sucio and Coclé del Norte River Basins were added. All these rivers drain separately into the Atlantic Ocean to the north-west of the PCW. Under the Panama Canal Treaty (1977) the Republic of Panama was obliged to provide sufficient water for the operation of the Canal and for cities in the area. This led to the creation of several national parks, the promotion of sustainable development activities, and the implementation of base-line studies, all with support from USAID (United States Agency for International Development). A Panama Canal Authority (PCA) was created by Constitutional reform in 1994 which granted legal obligations and rights to manage the PCW. A land use plan and an Organic Law for the PCA were approved in 1997, though the former has yet to be implemented.

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Costa Rica: Introducing water use charges to pay for environmental services

Case study #1
Global Water Partnership Toolbox

This case describes the process, and presents the main problems faced in levying, collecting and distributing funds from the water sector (hydro electricity and water users) for use in protection of the environmental services. In the framework of laws that allow for payment for environmental services, Costa Rica has introduced several cases of pricing water to pay for services provided by forests in watershed areas. The first catchment programs financed through cost recovery were started in 2002. As a result, Costa Rica’s watershed owners, both public and private, are beginning to be rewarded for providing water, whether for drinking or for generating electricity. The problem now is to ensure that these rewards are indeed spent in the catchments, to maintain environmental services.

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Securing Water for Ecosystems and Human Well-being: The Importance of Environmental Flows

UNEP-DHI Centre
Global Environmental Flows Network
2009



This report highlights the service role played by healthy ecosystems in helping water managers meet their goal of maximising the economic and social welfare of all water
users in an equitable manner. Healthy ecosystems simultaneously serve multiple aspects of human well-being, especially among poor communities living close to the land-water interface. Ecosystem services have real economic value today and special importance in mitigating future problems and economic losses related to climate change. To preserve and benefit from these services, the water manager must ensure that an environmental flow regime is maintained in rivers and wetlands. Environmental flows describe the quantity, quality and timing of water flows required to sustain
freshwater and estuarine ecosystems and the human livelihoods and well-being that depend on them (Brisbane Declaration 2007).

Our goal is to illuminate the role of environmental flows to simultaneously improve human well-being and sustaine vital ecosystems. We hope that the reader will come to
understand environmental flows as essential to meeting the water management challenges we face today and into the future, including adaptation to climate change.

Latin America Case study:
Creating the Bogota Water Fund for People and Nature
p. 31

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Water security and ecosystem services: The critical connection

ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME
UNEP-DHI Centre
March 2009



This document represents the collective expertise of a diverse group of individuals concerned with ecosystem degradation, and the continuing loss of the services provided by these ecosystems. Attention is given to aquatic ecosystems because of water`s fundamental role as the `blood` of ecosystem structure and functions, and an engine of economic production. These characteristics make the goal of maintaining ecosystem services and water security a complementary and overlapping task. It is hoped the contents of this report, which was developed as a contribution to the 3rd World Water Development Report, will facilitate more in-depth discussion on these important life-supporting topics.

Case studies from Latin America:

Integrated watershed management

Bermejo River (Bolivia, Argentina)
p. 33

Panama Canal Watershed (Panama)
p. 40

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Proceedings of International Workshop on Drinking Water Loss Reduction: Developing Capacity for Applying Solutions

UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development

UN Campus, Bonn
3-5 September 2008
Co-Editors: Reza Ardakanian
José Luis Martin-Bordes
UNW-DPC Publication Series

The UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development (UNW-DPC) has published the workshop proceedings from "Drinking Water Loss Reduction: Developing Capacities for Applying Solutions," held at the UN Campus, Bonn, on 3-5 September 2008. The proceedings include 29 papers on approaches to reducing drinking water loss adopted in cities around the world and also provide recommendations for policy makers

Papers on Latin America:

Brazil: City of Sao Paulo
Heading for an Efficient Water Loss Control: São Paulo Experience
By Francisco Paracampos, Center Business Unit Superintendent, Companhia de Saneamento Básico do Estado de Sao Paulo SABESP
p. 59

Mexico: Mexico City
Sectoring Of Drinking Water Distribution Network Of Mexico City
By Mr Oscar Froylán Martínez Villalba, Manager of the North Sectionalizing Department, Mexico City Water System
p. 64

Nicaragua: City of Managua
By Mr F. Reyes, Project Supervisor, The Nicaraguan Company for Water Supply and Sewerage ENACAL
p. 68

Peru: City of Lima
SEDAPAL’s experience in the reduction of water loses
By Mr H Reyes, Chief Management Control Team, Drinking Water and Sewerage Company of the city of Lima SEDAPAL
p.74

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Water Financing Partnership Facility Annual Report (January – December 2008)

Asian Development Bank
February 2009



Two years since it was established, the WFPF has become an important resource for ADB to provide additional financial and knowledge resources from development partners to help achieve the targeted outcomes of the WFP.

Contents:

1. Highlights and Key Achievements
2. Results
3. Financial Status
4. Management of the Facility
5. Relationship with Financing Partners
6. Lessons Learned, Experiences Gained, And Key Constraints
7. External Factors Relevant to the Facility
8. Overview of 2009 Annual Work

Appendixes

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Tools for Integrated Flood Management

Associated Programme on Flood Management

Integrated Flood Management (IFM) requires various specialists to work together under a joint flood management strategy or policy. While the overall aims and objectives of such policy are usually explicitly provided, the consequences for the application of various principles are far less understood. In this context flood management tools could be described as any methodology or instrument to facilitate the application of these principles of multi-disciplinary and participatory decision making in their pursuit to provide integrated and sustainable flood management solutions. Therefore, the Associated Programme on Flood Management (APFM) is making an effort to provide guidance tools for flood managers and various other specialists working in flood management.

• Applying Environmental Assessment for Flood Management (0.4 MB)
• Conducting Flood Loss Assessments (0.7 MB)
• Formulating a Basin Flood Management Plan (1.4 MB)
• Organizing Community Participation for Flood Management (0.7 MB)
• Reservoir Operations and Managed Flows(0.5 MB)
• The Role of Land-Use Planning in Flood Management (1.3 MB)
• Urban Flood Risk Management (1.4 MB)

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Chile: Integrated strategy for the recovery of water resources of Talcahuano

Case study #288
Global Water Partnership Toolbox

• The Municipality of Talcahuano, due to its geographic location, natural conditions and closeness to energy supply centres, such as coal from Lota and Coronel, had from the fifties onwards an important growth in terms of industry and fishing, a greater military presence, and an increased port capacity; all this led to an accelerated urban growth. The co-existence of active urban and industrial areas in an uneven territory, with abundant water bodies and a surface area of only 142.8 km2, have made the city specially sensitive to natural resource degradation and environmental deterioration, a situation that was made critical in the last decade and which gave rise to the municipal strategy started in 1993 and the subject matter of the current Case Study. This situation was being aggravated by the chronic scarcity of resources in the Municipality and the lack of infrastructure and control mechanisms faced with environmental deterioration.

• The Municipality, as the institution in charge of administering this serious environmental deterioration that affected the quality of life of its inhabitants, its economic activity and its sustainability as a municipality, assumes at the start of the nineties the firm purpose of solving this serious problem, designing and developing plans, projects and programs aiming to revert the deterioration. It is thus how the Municipality, in co-ordination with other public, private and community organisations, manifest their outmost commitment and concern for decreasing contamination, specially those affecting water resources, and to appropriately zone the city in order to harmonise the different activities and make them sustainable in time.

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Brazil: Progress towards the integration of water resources management

Case Study #289
Global Water Partnership Toolbox

This case study describes Brazilian experience towards institutional development and reconciling interests of major water users (hydropower, agriculture and livestock production, domestic and industrial consumption, navigation) in the context of rapidly-growing urban populations, which usually have adequate infra-structure.

Lessons learned
The main lesson learned from Brazilian experience is that the changes to water industry structure, and progress towards IWRM, have been achieved through non-partisan discussions between professionals, able to express views freely within a democracy that is approaching maturity.

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Bolivia: The water war to resist privatisation of water in Cochabamba

Case Study #157
Global Water Partnership Toolbox

The international consortium “Aguas del Tunari” was granted a concession to supply drinking water and sewerage services to the city of Cochabamba, Bolivia in September 1999. One month later, the Act No. 2029 on the regulation of the water and sanitation sector was passed, containing a set of rules to legitimize such contracts with a strong bias towards privatization. In addition, rules that aimed to regulate the use and exploitation of water resources were adopted.

Both events caused reactions and led to mass mobilization of the population. In urban areas, the protests were sparked by the perceived excessive increases in water tariffs. In rural communities, there was widespread concern about the effects of the new law on traditional rights and access to water for irrigation and domestic uses. Social conflict erupted in February and April 2000, with several days of intense clashes between so called “guerreros del agua” (water warriors) and the police. These clashes culminated in the declaration of a national state of siege.

Social discontent was so great that the only possible solution was the cancellation of the Contract that had been agreed with the Aguas del Tunari and the modification of more than 30 articles of the Act No. 2029. A process of wider grassroots participation was launched. The Consejo Interinstitucional del Agua - CONIAG (Inter-institutional Water Council) has been created, as a forum where government representatives, social organizations, the private sector, academic institutions and municipalities participate with the mission of reaching a consensus in the formulation of a new policy and water legislation for Bolivia.

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Water Management, Water Security and Climate Change Adaptation: Early Impacts and Essential Responses

Claudia Sadoff and Mike Muller
Global Water Partnership
August 2009

Water is the primary medium through which climate change will impact people, ecosystems and economies. Water resources management must be an early focus for adaptation. This is the topic of the GWP Technical Committee (TEC) Paper No. 14 "Water Management, Water Security and Climate Change Adaptation: Early Impacts and Essential Responses". Mike Muller, GWP TEC member, introduced the paper at the World Water Week in Stockholm on August 19, 2009.

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Rainwater harvesting: a lifeline for human well-being

UNEP-DHI Centre for Water and Environment - Stockholm Environment Institute
March 2009

This publication highlights the link between rainwater harvesting, ecosystems and human well being and draws the attention of readers to both the negative and positive aspects of using this technology and how the negative benefits can be minimized and positive capitalized.

Latin America case:
Adapting water supply in semi-arid Brazil through rainwater harvesting
p. 47

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Better water resources management – Greater resilience today, more effective adaptation tomorrow

Perspectives on water and climate change adaptation
Global Water Partnership
July 2009

Climate change is going to require a re-examination of current approaches in water management, as well as in the design of many components of urban settlements and economic and social infrastructure generally. This paper advocates for better water resources management if communities are to adapt to climate changes. Properly implemented, an IWRM approach is inherently adaptive as it should both inform water users about water challenges and provide a framework through which such challenges can be addressed. This Perspective paper is part of a series of sixteen papers on Water and Climate Adaptation discussed during the 5th WWF in Istanbul.

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Catalyzing Change: Handbook for developing IWRM and water efficiency strategies

Global Water Partnership Toolbox
2004

This handbook seeks to provide countries with the knowledge they need to act on the WSSD action target in the way that is most useful for them. Strategies should catalyze action, not retard it. Each country must decide the scope and timeline for change based on its goals and its resources. The important thing is to take the first steps.

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IWRM a Tool for Adaptation to Climate Change

Cap-Net
October 2009


This training manual is developed to assist capacity builders in developing training and educational programmes on the use of IWRM tools and instruments for adaptation to climate change impacts. The material is intended to increase our understading of climate change impacts and what we can do now. Improving the way we manage water resources now will help us adapt in the future. Developed in partnership between Cap-Net, APFM/WMO, UNESCO-IHE, REDICA and Rhama, the format and contents of the manual are flexible enough to be adapted to different purposes and as such it could be used for short courses, educational programmes and awareness campaigns.

Contents:

Training Manual
Chapter 1 Introduction to IWRM and Climate Change
Chapter 2 Drivers and Impacts of Climate Change
Chapter 3 Strategy Development and Planning for Adaptation
Chapter 4 Impacts of Climate Change on Water Use Sectors
Chapter 5 Dealing with Uncertainties
Chapter 6 Instruments and Measures for Adaptation
Chapter 7 Adaptation to Climate Change in Water Management

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Guyana - Status of projects in execution (SOPE) - FY09 : Latin America and the Caribbean region

World Bank
October 2009

The Status of Projects in Execution (SOPE) report for FY09 provides information on all International Bank and Rural Development (IBRD)/International Development Association (IDA) projects that were active on June 30, 2009. The report is intended to bridge the gap in information available to the public between the project appraisal document, disclosed after the Bank approves a project, and the implementation completion report, disclosed after the project closes. In addition to the project progress description, the FY09 SOPE report contains project level comparisons of disbursement estimates and actual disbursements, and a table showing the loan/credit/grant amount and disbursements to date for all active projects.

Projects with water and sanitation components:

GEF Conservancy Adaptation Project
p. 3

(CRL) Water Sector Consolidation Project
p.5

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Guatemala - Status of projects in execution (SOPE) - FY09 : Latin America and the Caribbean region

World Bank
October 2009

The Status of Projects in Execution (SOPE) report for FY09 provides information on all International Bank and Rural Development (IBRD)/International Development Association (IDA) projects that were active on June 30, 2009. The report is intended to bridge the gap in information available to the public between the project appraisal document, disclosed after the Bank approves a project, and the implementation completion report, disclosed after the project closes. In addition to the project progress description, the FY09 SOPE report contains project level comparisons of disbursement estimates and actual disbursements, and a table showing the loan/credit/grant amount and disbursements to date for all active projects.

Projects with water and sanitation components:
GT CAT DDO (P112544)
p. 5

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Ecuador - Status of projects in execution (SOPE) - FY09 : Latin America and the Caribbean region

World Bank
October 2009

The Status of Projects in Execution (SOPE) report for FY09 provides information on all International Bank and Rural Development (IBRD)/International Development Association (IDA) projects that were active on June 30, 2009. The report is intended to bridge the gap in information available to the public between the project appraisal document, disclosed after the Bank approves a project, and the implementation completion report, disclosed after the project closes. In addition to the project progress description, the FY09 SOPE report contains project level comparisons of disbursement estimates and actual disbursements, and a table showing the loan/credit/grant amount and disbursements to date for all active projects.

Projects with water and sanitation components:

Chimborazo Development Investment Project (PIDD)
p.3

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Honduras - Status of projects in execution (SOPE) - FY09 : Latin America and the Caribbean region

Worldbank
October 2009

The Status of Projects in Execution (SOPE) report for FY09 provides information on all International Bank and Rural Development (IBRD)/International Development Association (IDA) projects that were active on June 30, 2009. The report is intended to bridge the gap in information available to the public between the project appraisal document, disclosed after the Bank approves a project, and the implementation completion report, disclosed after the project closes. In addition to the project progress description, the FY09 SOPE report contains project level comparisons of disbursement estimates and actual disbursements, and a table showing the loan/credit/grant amount and disbursements to date for all active projects.

Projects with water and sanitation components:

Water and Sanitation Program
p. 10

Rural Infrastructure Project
p. 13

Nuestras Raices Program
p. 26

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The Millenium Development Goals Report 2009

Millenium Development Goals Indicators
July 2009



Contenido en español:
Objetivo 7 - Garantizar la sostenibilidad del medio ambiente - p.40

META
Reducir a la mitad, para el año 2015, el porcentaje de personas sin acceso sostenible a agua potable y a servicios básicos de saneamiento - p. 45

• Uso eficaz del agua - p. 46
• Meta de saneamiento - p. 47
• Acceso a fuentes de agua potable - p. 48

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Public funding for sanitation: The many faces of sanitation subsidies

Water Supply & Sanitation Collaborative Council
September 2009



Access to safe sanitation would, for some 2.5 billion fellow citizens without it, improve their health, dignity, local environment and economic well-being. While most people would agree that the poor and vulnerable should be supported to obtain sanitation services in ways that promote social equity, are people-centred, participatory and affordable, the debate on how to do it often becomes contentious. Some people propose infrastructure-based hardware subsides; others oppose them. As Public Funding for Sanitation explains, the discussion on appropriate sanitation financing mechanisms for the poor goes far beyond the use of hardware subsidies. It must take into account aspects of hardware and software, capital and operational expenditure, the type of sanitation system being built, and, ultimately, the users of the sanitation system. This primer assists the reader in understanding the global debate on subsidies and sanitation financing, and provides guidance on how to select the most appropriate funding arrangements for sanitation programming in different situations.

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Our water, our waste, our town: Supporting civil society to engage in urban water and sanitation reforms

Guidance Manual
WaterAid
August 2009



This guidance manual is part of the Our water, our waste, our town toolkit, which offers support to civil society in engaging in urban water and sanitation reforms. The other components of the toolkit are nine case studies outlining civil society organisations’ (CSOs) involvement in urban water sector reform in the following locations:

Bangladesh (Dhaka and Chittagong)

Brazil (Recife) and Venezuela (Caracas)
This case study outlines the roles CSOs are playing in the decentralisation of water and sanitation services in Recife, Brazil and Caracas, Venezuela. In Recife, CSOs are officially represented on the council responsible for water strategy in the city. However, the council is not yet fully functional. In Caracas, CSOs play an active role in a water communal council that monitors the activities of the state water company. However, management of the state water company is yet to be devolved to local level as planned.

Ghana (Accra)
Kenya (Kisumu, Nairobi and Mombasa)
Nepal (Kathmandu)
Pakistan (Karachi)
Philippines (Manila)
Uganda (Kampala)
Ukraine
The manual and case studies can all be downloaded at:
www.wateraid.org/urbanreform

About this manual
This manual is based on real-life case studies and the authors’ experiences of working with civil society organisations (CSOs) on urban water and sanitation reforms.

An annotated framework and a synthesis of the case studies were presented to selected CSOs from Asia and Africa at a WaterAid Urban Water and Sanitation Research Workshop in Uganda in February 2007. Feedback from participants expressed a strong desire for a manual that would provide technical information alongside advocacy and policy guidance on selected urban water supply issues and specific discussions on urban sanitation. The authors have attempted to meet this need.

The aim of this manual is to encourage, support and develop the skills of CSO members to take action to reform urban water and sanitation utilities.
This is a reference manual to show some of the methods and tactics that can be used to make a difference. Various case studies show that CSO-driven urban water and sanitation reforms really do work.

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Scaling Up Household Water Treatment Among Low-Income Populations

World Health Organization
August 2009



This report examines the evidence to date regarding the scalability of HWTS(Effective household water treatment and safe storage). It seeks to consolidate existing knowledge and experience and distill the lessons learnt. Its primary aims are to 1)review the development and evolution of leading household water treatment technologies in their efforts to achieve scale, 2) identify the main constraints that they have encountered and 3) recommend ways forward.

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Seminario Internacional: Conflictos Actuales y Derecho Humano al Agua en Chile

Setiembre 2009



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Global Handwashing Day: 15 October 2009

Global Handwashing Day
15 October


Organised by: Global Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing with Soap

Initiated in 2008 by the Global Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing with Soap, Global Handwashing Day is endorsed by a wide array of governments, international institutions, civil society organisations, NGOs, private companies and individuals around the globe.

The driving theme for Global Handwashing Day is children and schools, and the main objectives of this global celebration are:

• foster and support a global and local culture of handwashing with soap
• shine a spotlight on the state of handwashing in each country
• raise awareness about the benefits of handwashing with soap
• Get involved and download the Global Handwashing Day Planner’s Guide

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Global CityWater Futures Summit

Learning Alliances for Change
Delft, The Netherlands, 7-10 October 2009
Switch: Managing Water for the City of the Future




Click here to download the Summit brochure.

What is your City's Water Future?
Around the world urban areas are facing enormous challenges from population growth and climate change. The problems are universal but especially acute in the less developed countries. More frequent droughts and floods along with sea level rise and degrading infrastructure are causing us to re-think the ways that we plan for and provide water in our towns and cities.

Recent technological advancements and economic and institutional arrangements are opening up opportunities for implementing innovative, more affordable, integrated solutions.

The Global CityWater Futures Summit will bring together water managers, urban planners, regulators, NGOs, donor agencies, as well as policy makers from SWITCH cities and other cities/towns around the world to discuss and share ideas and experiences with a global network of scientists and their cities path to a sustainable "WaterCity of the Future".

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Mapping Drought Patterns and Impacts: A Global Perspective

Nishadi Eriyagama, Vladimir Smakhtin and Nilantha Gamage
IWMI Research Report 133
IWMI
September 2009



This study examines the global patterns and impacts of droughts through the mapping of several drought-related characteristics – either at a country level or at regular grid scales. Characteristics cover various aspects of droughts – from global distribution of meteorological and hydrological drought risks to social vulnerability and indices related to water infrastructure. The maps are produced by integrating a number of publicly available global datasets. The subsequent discussion of maps allows a number of policy-relevant messages to be extracted. It appears that arid and semi-arid areas also tend to have a higher probability of drought occurrence. The report points out that in drought years, the highest per capita loss of river flow occurs in areas that do not normally experience climate–driven water scarcity. It also illustrates that the African continent is lagging behind the rest of the world on many indicators related to drought preparedness and that agricultural economies, overall, are much more vulnerable to adverse societal impacts of meteorological droughts. Regions with an unreliable and vulnerable nature of river discharge, and having the largest drought deficits and durations are highlighted, pointing to the danger of focusing on drought mitigation measures on river flows alone. The ability of various countries to satisfy their water needs during drought conditions is examined using storage-related indices.

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Climbing the water ladder: Multiple-use water services for poverty reduction

By Barbara van Koppen, Stef Smits, P. Moriarty, F. Penning de Vries, M. Mikhail, and Eline Boelee
CGIAR Challenge Program on Water & Food, IRC, IWMI
September 2009

This joint work of CPWF, IRC and IWMI demonstrates how increased water access at the MUS 'community' and 'household' level can greatly improve the livelihoods of the world's poorest people. A vital policy resource.

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Small towns water Supply and Sanitation - Challenges and Scaling Up

WSP
June 2009



A workshop held in Vienna on June 8th ahead of WSP’s annual Donors’ Council meeting highlighted the importance of small towns with respect to achieving the MDGs and to achieving balanced rural-urban development. "Small towns water Supply and Sanitation - Challenges and Scaling Up" was organized and hosted by the Austrian Development Agency and WSP and was attended by representatives from the donor community, NGOs, academic institutions, local practitioners and international water associations.

Presentations were made from Uganda, Mozambique, Philippines, Indonesia, India, and Peru (The Case of Sechura, Peru A public-private social partnership) covering various water and sanitation issues.

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Clear Waters? Corruption and the Water Sector

Global Public Policy Network on Water Management (GPPN)
August 2009



Corruption and the water sector are age old friends – they go back a long time. We’re all too familiar with stories of water officials exchanging votes for lucrative engineering contracts or international donor money earmarked for water pipes being spent on limousines. We are joined in the studio by Teun Batermeijer (WIN), Ramisetty Murali (FAN), and Thomas van Waeyenberge (Aquafed) to find out why the water sector is so prone to corruption, and whether we’re winning the battle against it….

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WaterAid’s manifesto for the UK general election

WaterAid
September 2009



The next UK general election is on the horizon and could result in a change of government. WaterAid has launched WaterAid's manifesto for the UK general election which calls on the Prime Minister and Government to lead international efforts to tackle the global water and sanitation crisis.

The manifesto highlights WaterAid's five calls on the UK Government and also lists the ways in which MP’s and Prospective Parliamentary Candidates can get involved.

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Guidance Notes on Services for the Urban Poor: A Practical Guide for Improving Water Supply and Sanitation Services

WSP
August 2009

The report, Guidance Notes on Services for the Urban Poor: A practical guide for improving water and sanitation services, identifies barriers to service delivery for poor people living in urban areas in Africa, East and South Asia, and Latin America and recommends practical solutions to overcome them.

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Water Investment World Africa

Johannesburg 3- 6 November 2009


Africa’s leading water event where utilities find investment and funding for infrastructure developments

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Programa

Multiple-use water services could advance all Millennium Development Goals

R4D DFID
September 18 2009



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Brazil - Bahia Integrated Health and Water Management Project (SWAP)

Project Information Document
World Bank
September 2009

The Project would:
(i) Reduce morbidity due to diarrhea in children under one years of age
(ii) Reduce mortality due to diarrhea in children under one year of age
(iii) Reduce early neonatal mortality in 45 selected reference hospitals
(iv) Strengthen the state’s WRM system, by supporting the implementation of WRM instruments
to improve and monitor the state’s water quality
(v) Facilitate the access of WSS services in 30 selected municipalities affected by diarrhea
(vi) Support the annual management performance agreements between EMBASA and the
Ministry of Cities for improving the efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of 417 water
systems.

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Peru - Optimization of Lima Water and Sewerage Systems Project

Project Information Document
World Bank
September 2009

The proposed development objective of this project is to improve the water and sewerage
services in the Northern Cone of Lima. This will be achieved by the rehabilitation of the infrastructure network and by the strengthening of SEDAPAL’s operational capacity.

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Proyecto OBA Agua & Saneamiento Honduras

Guía Explicativa
GPOBA
2008

La presente guía está dirigida a Implementadores públicos que están constituidos por las instituciones municipales y nacionales, incluyendo al FHIS, SANAA, juntas de agua, grupos comunales en los barrios en vía de desarrollo, e Implementadores privados como ONG o empresas que hagan parte del sector del agua y saneamiento en Honduras.

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Output-based aid in Honduras: an OBA Facility for the water and sanitation sector

World Bank
September 2009

Honduras has achieved a reasonable level of access to water supply and sanitation, but gaps in coverage remain, especially in rural and peri-urban areas, and service quality for those with access is often poor. To help the Government of Honduras achieve universal coverage and improve service quality, the Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA) is funding a project to test the viability of an innovative output-based aid mechanism for financing water and sanitation services. Housed within the Honduran Social Investment Fund, this 'OBA Facility' the first such facility funded by GPOBA aims to improve access to water and sanitation services for about 15,000 low-income households, and to increase efficiency and transparency in sector investment funding. To be eligible for funding from the OBA Facility, projects must meet specific criteria and payments are made against verifiable results.

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