WATER MANAGEMENT
Presidency: State of Mexico
Main focuses:
- Sustainability of urban water supply and waste water disposal
Effective use of resources and infrastructure by reducing leaks and physical and commercial losses, water reuse, citizens' participation and environmental education and awareness - Improvement of resource management
Integral water use according to real availability of resources, modernisation of aquifers, development of a quality management - Water as an asset
Methods to define the cost of water in economic, ecological and social terms - Compensation for transferring resources
Mechanisms for a balance between the areas the water derives from and the urban centres, where it is consumed - Modernisation of the legal framework
Institutional reform, revision of the legal framework, the service provision and evaluation of the private sector's participation - Technical innovation
Concepts for a more sustainable development of large cities and for an avoidance or compensation for the environmental imbalance caused by the urban areas
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