WATER AND ADAPTATION Principles , Positions and Mexico´s Experience
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WATER AND ADAPTATION Principles, Positions and Mexico´s Experience
Water Day; Bonn, June 2, 2010
WATER AND ADAPTATION Principles, Positions and Mexico´s Experience
Water Day; Bonn, June 2, 2010
PRINCIPLES
• Historical responsibility
• Polluters pays principle
• Common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities
• Precautionary principle
PROPOSALS
1. International Insurance Mechanism to deal with water related disasters induced from climate change (floods and droughts).
2. International Mechanism to compensate the loss and damage from climate change impacts (land and water source).
3. Ecosystem Based Adaptation to enhance the adaptative and resilience capacity of vulnerable communities and ecosystems from climate change.
PROPOSALS
3. Ecosystem Based Adaptation to enhance the adaptative and resilience capacity of vulnerable communities and ecosystems from climate change.
• Healthy, bio-diverse environments role in increasing resilience
• Adaptation as an institutional
• Water as a “unit” not as a “sector”
EXPERIENCEMéxico; New water management models
Ecosystems and land use are recognized on water
management
Strengthening of rural communities
People recognizes the basin and the importance
of its conservation
Environmental services valuation
Water governance in the basin
Environmental Flow
Water allocation to ecosystems
Stakeholders recognize the
problems
Environmetal Flow and Land
use assessment
Conservation of water recharge
and supply zones
Sustainable water
management in rural areas
Identification of environmental
services
Stakeholders understand the
problems
Compensation mechanisms
IRBM Plan
Stakeholders participate in solving the problems
Basin Agreements
Consumptive uses of water < or = (natural water availabitiy –
environmental flow)
- Water quantity and quality- River restoration and flood plain management
- Water reserves
Sustainable use of water
Social organization
Demostrative Projects
Operative basin councils
Technical and financial capacity
Water and land use
management criteria
Cross-cutting activities
IRBM Strategy
LESSONS
• Integrated water resource management (IWRM) is a social and technical accepted process, with current important achievements and goals, and with key challenges ahead.
• The shortest way society can take to build resilience is to strength and improve IWRM, rather than promote an adaptation process by itself.
• IWRM must focus all their capabilities to ensure, under different
scenarios, a sustainable water extraction, in which ecosystems are recognized as the water provider, rather than a water user.
FORWARD LOOKING
CONAGUA….
• National E-flow Standard
• Regional Dialogue