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Legislation for sustainable water user associations

Year of publication 2007

Pages 9p.

Author Hodgson, S.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (series)

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This paper considers the legislation necessary for sustainable water user associations (WUAs). Its primary focus is the legislation (in the form of laws, acts of parliament etc) relating to the establishment and operation of WUAs. This is sometimes described as ‘enabling legislation’. Of almost equal importance, though, is the legislation that regulates the irrigation and drainage sector as well as basic water legislation in the form of a water code or a water resources law. Based on the experie nces of a number of transition countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia1 (the ‘transition countries’), but also on practice in Western Europe and North America, the findings of this paper are considered to be of general application. The paper is set out in five parts including this introduction. Part Two considers the legislation relating to WUAs and Part Three considers irrigation sector legislation. The important contribution to WUA sustainability of basic water legislation is briefly cons idered in Part Four while conclusions are drawn in Part Five.

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