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WATER AND ADAPTATION
Principles, Positions and Mexico´s Experience
Water Day; Bonn, June 2, 2010
PRINCIPLES
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Historical responsibility
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Polluters pays principle
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Common but differentiated responsibilities
and respective capabilities
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Precautionary principle
PROPOSALS
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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.
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Healthy, bio-diverse environments role in increasing
resilience
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Adaptation as an institutional
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Water as a “unit” not as a “sector”
Ecosystems and land use
are recognized on water
management
Water governance in the
basin
Environmetal
Flow and Land
use assessment
Water and land
use
management
criteria
Water allocation
to ecosystems
Operative basin
councils
IRBM Plan
Basin
Agreements
- Water quantity and quality
- River restoration and flood plain
management
- Water reserves
Environmental services
valuation
Strengthening of rural
communities
People recognizes the
basin and the importance
of its conservation
Identification of
environmental
services
Technical and
financial
capacity
Stakeholders
recognize the
problems
Compensation
mechanisms
Conservation of
water recharge
and supply zones
Social
organization
Sustainable
water
management in
rural areas
Stakeholders
understand the
problems
Stakeholders
participate in
solving the
problems
Environmental
Flow
Sustainable
use of water
Consumptive uses of
water < or = (natural
water availabitiy –
environmental flow)
Demostrative
Projects
Cross-cutting
activities
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….
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National E-flow Standard
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Regional Dialogue