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This article focuses on the institutional landscape of water management in France. Being both a resource and a habitat, the characteristic of water is that it cannot be managed like a stock. Its management therefore requires specific implementation and regulation for hydraulic networks. This article firstly presents a historical overview of water policy in France and then proceeds to dealing with the management of water as a resource in compliance with the existing regulations on geographic perimeters as well as the relationships between users and public authorities. It also lists the various instances involved at the territorial level, according to their role and duties, and whose objective is to meet the European requirements of a "good water status".
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Véronique NICOLAS: Agricultural and environmental engineer - Ecological engineering project manager - Direction de l'action scientifique et technique - French National Office for Water and Aquatic Environments (Onema)
INTRODUCTION
Water is a common good with a dual characteristic: it is both a resource and an environment. Its cyclical nature means that it cannot be managed as a stock. Its management therefore calls into question quantitative and qualitative aspects that need to be placed in a spatial and temporal dynamic: shortages during low-water periods, risk prevention during floods, differentiated problems depending on whether the water is at the head of a basin, on a plain or in an estuary, in a rural or urban area...
At the heart of mankind's needs, the means of developing and regulating river systems to exploit this resource have existed for centuries. To begin with, we will place the methods that have governed water policy in a historical perspective, before analyzing the contributions of successive water laws in France.
To ensure the proper management of water resources, these laws set up dedicated geographical perimeters and financial circuits, as well as specific arrangements for relations between users and public authorities, whether through regulation or consultation.
Today, more than ever before, these different players - whose roles we will briefly outline according to whether they are users, managers, regulators or financial incentives - must work together in a complementary and concerted fashion to achieve the "good water status" objectives set by Europe.
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Bibliography
Directory
Organizations – Associations – Federations
Water agencies http://www.lesagencesdeleau.fr/
Onema http://www.onema.fr/
National Water Committee http://www.comitenationaldeleau.fr/
...Regulations
European regulations
Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy (OJEU no. 327 of December 22, 2000).
Directive 2006/7/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the management of bathing water quality and repealing Directive 76/160/EEC (OJEU No. L. 064 of March 4, 2006)....
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