Water policy

Emphasis has been placed on integrating specific policies for groundwater management into policies at the basin level.

Water demand management policies could also be used for reducing the waste water volumes and required investment in sewerage.

I Water policy and strategy of the United Nations Environment Programme

South Africa had set a policy of providing free of cost 20 litres of water per person per day.

MAWRD, National Agricultural Policy, 1995.

Also, appropriate housing and potable water policies were essential for poverty eradication and environmental protection.

In the past two years some significant policy instruments have been introduced, such as the Governmental Water Resource Policy (2004), the National Policy for Integral Solid Waste Management (2004), the National Environmental Education Policy (2004), the National Fire Management Policy (2005) and the Soil Conservation Policy (ongoing).

There is an increasing commitment to water policy reform and a strong trend towards decentralization of water institutions.

BERKELEY When an economy falls into a depression, governments can try four things to return employment to its normal level and production to its potential level. Call them fiscal policy, credit policy, monetary policy, and inflation.

BERKELEY When an economy falls into a depression, governments can try four things to return employment to its normal level and production to its potential level. Call them fiscal policy, credit policy, monetary policy, and inflation.

In the field of water policy, strategy and institutional arrangements, a number of advances have been made in African countries.

Watercourse States shall take steps to harmonize their policies in this connection.

Broad policy options at the national and international levels include strengthening capacities in integrated water resources management and water governance, improving water allocation, enhancing water use efficiency, expanding access to safe drinking water, protecting water quality, reducing water costs while improving cost recovery, implementing pro poor policies, and strengthening monitoring systems at the local and national levels.

(ii) Watercourse States shall take steps to harmonize their policies and legislation in this connection.

Harvesting and preserving techniques also needed to be improved but, at the macroeconomic level, Governments found it hard to finance such policies and measures.

The presenter of the theme Water and sanitation underlined the importance of pricing policies in the supply of water and sanitation services.

Regarding soil and water conservation, improved irrigation techniques, introduction of water use policies and monitoring of competing uses and demands for water, soil and water conservation techniques, and flood controls were seen as important.

This applies in particular to the Water Framework Directive and the Common Agricultural Policy.

The objective was to study the hydro politics and eco political decision making process around the three main inland seas in Eurasia and their related environmental problems.

Preparing integrated water resource management plans and creating an institutional and policy framework

Mr. Lenton underlined the importance of pricing policies in the supply of water and sanitation services.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Rural Development adopted a National Agricultural Policy in October 1995.

The experiences of the past three decades show that sustained improvements in living standards require the country's economic policy to be set in a medium term context, with appropriate consideration for the relative strengths of the different economic policies.

A training manual for the region was prepared, addressing the integration of water policies, institutional and legislative tools and the administrative methods required for integrated water resources management.

Proactive land and water management policies can help to avoid the adverse impacts of desertification.

But the NAIRU is not immutable. The correct implication, which Phelps repeatedly emphasized, is that governments can implement a variety of policies, particularly structural policies, to allow the economy to operate at a lower level of unemployment.

Bearing in mind the importance of increasing cooperation between the United Nations Human Settlements Programme and relevant human rights organizations, specifically in the context of articles 17 and 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,

Several countries proposed changing water management policies to provide incentives to use water efficiently, or referred to the use of economic incentives through water pricing, taxes and subsidies.

A series of policy briefs is planned for wide distribution by UN Water during the Decade, to reflect UN Water's thematic initiatives.

Urban sanitation policies will be implemented by the establishment of a national programme for water conservation and reutilization and the setting up of appropriate institutional structures for its operation.

Moreover, unlike major developed economies, most of which have used up all of their conventional monetary policy ammunition by reducing their policy interest rates to zero, China has plenty of monetary stimulus on reserve to address cyclical disruptions. In these circumstances, it makes sense for China to lean more on monetary policy than on fiscal expansion.

More equitable water allocation between rich and poor, in the framework of a strong political negotiation and good management policies

Under the NEP the establishment of clear linkages between the control of pollution and other policy areas, including water resources, agriculture, human settlements, health, and disaster prevention and preparedness, was foreseen.

IFAD financed projects and programmes are geared to enhancing food production systems and to strengthening related policies and institutions within the national policy framework.

Most reporting Parties expect their policies and measures to reduce CH4 emissions by an amount equivalent to 10 20 per cent of 1990 levels, while the coresponding target for N2O policies and measures is usually a reduction of more than 30 per cent.

It also put in place the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act.

This policy has proved effective in encouraging women to overcome difficulties to improve their knowledge in all fields.

A clear policy regarding the number of vacancies preferentially reserved to girls, in each grade or level of education.

Such inequalities were attributable to differences in income levels and to explicit or implicit policy choices.

It shall implement food hygiene policies and look after and inspect the country's sanitation facilities and drinking water supply

The Task Force has prepared a programme of work for 2005 2006 and a policy brief for UN Water.

However, several weaknesses were also observed, such as (i) power and water shortages, (ii) a low level of legal effectiveness and enforcement relating to intellectual property laws, and (iii) a lack of transparency in policies and regulations at provincial level.

The realization of the right to water presupposes the right of individuals and groups to have full and equal access to information concerning water, water services and the environment, whether held by public authorities or third parties, and to participate in the formulation and implementation of national water strategies that may affect their exercise of their right to water (para.

Women and girl children must be included at every level, local, national, and corporate, as equal participants in all water management training and policy making so that water policies and programs are gender sensitive.