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The News N° 24
THE MEDITERRANEAN
FRom one conTinenT To anoTHeR
Started 7 years ago, the
collaboration between
the National Office for
Water and Electricity
(ONEE) in Morocco and
the National Water Trai-
ning Center (NWTC) of the International
Office for Water (IOWater) in France
continued in 2013
.
The educational engineering project conti-
nued in 2013 for the design and implementa-
tion of educational units on "Sanitation sys-
tems" built at the Water and Sanitation Insti-
tute (WSI) of ONEE in Rabat.
In addition,
IOWater
drafted the protocols
for practical work and carried out the training
of trainers of the ONEE on the use of these
educational units.
Moreover,
IOWater,
in partnership with the
Moroccan ADI consulting firm, started in
2013
a project to develop reference
frames for the design and sizing of
liquid waste treatment systems.
These handbooks are intended to serve as
references on the ONEE’s global scale for its
projects on sanitation systems, urban hydro-
logy, pumping stations and wastewater treat-
ment plants using activated sludge, lagoo-
ning, trickling filters and bio discs.
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Morocco
ONEE and IOWater, a lasting collaboration
The educational unit on ”Sanitation systems”
of the Water and Sanitation Institute (WSI)
Turkey
Presentation of the water allocation system
in Southern France
The World Bank,
providing technical assis-
tance to the Turkish Ministry of Forestry and
Water Affairs, wished that the operational
experience of water allocation, in French river
basins under conditions of water scarcity, be
presented.
IOWater was in charge of identifying
the main organizations:
Adour-Garonne
Water Agency, Canal de Provence Company,
the Water Users’ Associations (ASA) of the
Gap and Ventavon canals in particular, who
testified of their experience of managers in
situation of water scarcity:
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at the basin level,
on the definition of
allocations priority between uses and
their operational implementation by the
Basin Water Agency and the Regional
Development Company in charge of infra-
structure.
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at the local level,
Water Users Associa-
tions (ASA) were reinforced by the 2004
modernization Act, and keep on playing a
significant role in the transmission of their
water management experience and
know-how in scarcity situation.
The 40 pages English paper is exploring:
➊
The recently established legal and
policy frameworks for French water
management,
including the system of
permits for water abstractions, water law
enforcement activities and the latest
developments in WFD implementation;
➋
The mechanisms for planning and
allocating water at basin level,
accor-
ding to the Adour-Garonne Water Agency
experience;
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The Durance-Verdon water system
for multi-purpose water infrastruc-
ture management:
historical analysis,
sectoral policies coordination and gover-
nance issues;
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The legal and operational conditions
for water scarcity management by
Users’ Associations:
characteristics of
the Authorized Union Associations (ASA)
of the Lower and Middle Durance, the
“water rights” challenges and the specific
case of restrictions organized on the Gap
Canal.
The French case described and analyzed in
this study was presented in Ankara on 30 and
31 October 2013 at the international seminar
jointly organized by the World Bank and the
Turkish Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs.
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Serre-Ponçon Lake
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
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