Ministerial Freshwater Conference

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Ministerial Freshwater Conference Bonn, 3-7
December 2001 Working Group Session A
Governance, Integrated Management and New
Partnerships Session A-I Protection of Water
Resources and Ecosystems Government
arrangements, compliance and enforcement Dr.
Ger Bergkamp IUCN - The World Conservation Union
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• World security
• Highest priority needs to be given to water
  management
• Increased emphasis on world-wide security
• Increased attention to security water security
  forms an essential element of this
• World Water Vision Vision for Water and Nature

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• Water Security encompassess social, economic and
  environmental security
• Main trends
• a. From water development towards water
  allocation
• b. From central control towards decentralised
  management
• c. From sector target-driven towards integrated
  process oriented
• All three trends indicate more complex and
  sophisticated management of water is needed
• Serious differences between countries but overall
  problems in environmental governance worldwide.

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• Key issue 1
• Environmental Flows Safeguarding
• Freshwater needs downstream and instream
  ecosystems (rivers, lakes, deltas, coastal areas)
• Needs to be given status equal to water provision
  for basic human needs
• Improved design and operations of dams
• Improved water abstraction management and
  monitoring
• Set aside rivers or river stretches

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• Key issue 2
• Ecosystem Services valuation and payment
• Goods and services underestimated
• Payment for environmental services practised
  today
• Improved EIA and Cost/Benefit analysis to include
  environmental services

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• Key issue 3
• People s motivation
• administrative improved legislation (feasible
  benchmarks)
• incentives need to be high enough but require
  serious monitoring
• social capital (moral standards, political will)

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• Water politics
• appropriate multi-stakeholder mechanisms needed
• catalysing change and political will building
  coalitions
• WCD, GWP, Dialogue, IUCN Water and Nature
  Initiative
• Transparent negotiation mechanisms

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• Water security - increasing complexity
• practical steps
• political will
• partnerships