drought planning and management in spain
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Drought Planning and management in Spain. Teodoro Estrela Deputy Water Director on Water Planning and Sustainable Water Use. Legal framework Drought management plans 2004-2008 Drought Drought Management Plans Regulations developed Measures carried out Main conclusions. Contents. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Drought Planning and management in Spain
Teodoro Estrela
Deputy Water Director on Water Planning and Sustainable Water Use
• Legal framework• Drought management plans• 2004-2008 Drought
• Drought Management Plans • Regulations developed• Measures carried out• Main conclusions
Contents
Legal framework
Water Act (1985), in art. 58, foresees during exceptional drought circumstances, adopting the adequate measures in the public water domain for overcoming these situations through a royal Decree issued by the Government, agreed by the Council of Ministers, and heard the River Basin Authority.
Drought management as an emergency situation
Law 10/2001, July 5, of the Hydrological Water Plan, establishes the bases for the drought planned management.
Article 27. Drought management
Section 1. The Ministry of Environment, for river basin organizations will establish a global hydrologic indicator system that will allow foreseeing these situations, and will serve as general reference for river basin authorities for the formal declaration of emergency situations and eventual drought.
Section 2. Basin Organizations will develop Drought Management Plans (DMP) for alert situations and eventual drought (exploitation rules and measures)
Section 3. Public Administrations responsible for public urban supplying, for town of or above 20,000 inhabitants, will provide: Emergency Plan for drought situations.
Policy bases for Drought Management Plans
Drought Management Plans
Entities in charge: River Basin Authorities
Objective: minimize environmental, social and economic impacts of drought situations
Contents: includes diagnosis of situation (historical droughts, vulnerability of basin), indicators system (precipitation, river inflows in natural regime, stored volume in surface reservoirs, water levels in aquifers), programme of measures to be applied in each drought phase according to the drought status, management and follow-up system.
DMP’s General characteristics
Development process of the DMPsPROMOTING ENTITY (River Basin)
DMP Strategic Environmental Assessment
ENVIRONMENTAL ENTITY
INITIAL PLAN ROUGHT DRAFT INITIAL PLAN SCOPING
DRAFT PLAN
PUBLIC CONSULTATION
STUDY AND RESPONSE OF COMPLAINTS
MODIFICATIONS OF THE PLAN DRAFT PLAN
PLAN PROPOSAL
PLAN APPROVAL
PUBLICATION OF THE PLAN
APPLICATION OF THE PLAN
PLAN FOLLOW UP AND CONTROL
ENV. SUSTAINABILITY REPORT
PUBLIC CONSULTATION
REFERENCE DOCUMENT
DEVELOPMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT
PLAN ADVERTISEMENT+ ENVIRONMENTAL
MEASURES + FOLLOW-UP MEASURES
FOLLOW UP OF ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS
AND OF THE PLAN DEVELOPMENT
PLAN FOLLOW-UP
2004-2008 Drought in Spain
Hydrologic Status 2004 - 2008
• Approval: Ministry of Environment Order. Publication in Official State Bulletin: 23/03/2007
• Reference documents for formal declaration of drought situation and for drought management corresponding to period 2004-2008 (measures to be applied as a function of hydrological status).
Drought Management Plans
TYPES OF MITIGATION MEASURES
Indicator 1-0.50.5-0.4 0.4-0.3 0.3-0.2
0.2-0.15
0.15-0.1 0.1-0
Status Normal Pre-alert Alert Emergency
ObjectivePlanni
ngInformation-
control Conservation Restrictions
Type of measure Strategic Tactics Emergency
Global system of hydrological indicators
Maps are published on a monthly base since december 2005 (web page of Ministry)
•Law-Decrees: adoption of urgent measures to develop water markets, to establish fee exemptions, etc
•Decrees: adoption of exceptional administrative measures to manage water resources and to palliate negative effects of droughts or to establish urgent irrigation works to save water.
•Ministerial Orders: modification of zones in which Decrees or Law-Decrees can be applied depending on the drought evolution.
Regulations approved during 2004-2008 drought
Works carried out from 2005
402,289 millones de €
Obras de tramitación de Urgencia 185,500 millones de €Obras de tramitación de Emergencia 216,789 millones de €
182,510 millones de €
Obras de tramitación de Emergencia 182,510 millones de €
67,730 millones de €
Obras de tramitación de Emergencia 67,730 millones de €
62,367 millones de €
Obras de tramitación de Emergencia 62,367 millones de €
7,200 millones de €
Obras de tramitación de Emergencia 7,200 millones de €
722,096 millones de €TOTAL ACTUACIONES
RESUMEN OBRAS DE EMERGENCIA Y URGENCIA
TOTAL ACTUACIONES AÑO HIDROLÓGICO 2004-2005
TOTAL ACTUACIONES AÑO HIDROLÓGICO 2005-2006
TOTAL ACTUACIONES AÑO HIDROLÓGICO 2006-2007
TOTAL ACTUACIONES AÑO HIDROLÓGICO 2007-2008
TOTAL ACTUACIONES AÑO HIDROLÓGICO 2008-2009
Map showing works carried out from 2005
Water DirectorsSteering of implementation process
Chair: Presidency, Co-chair: Commission
Strategic Co-ordination GroupCo-ordination of work programme
Chair: Commission
Stakeholders, NGO’s, Researchers, Experts, etc.
Art. 21 Committee
Working Group A“Ecological Status”Chair: JRC, DE and UK
Organisation of
Common Implementation Strategy 2007-2009
Working Group D“Reporting”
Chair: Commission, EEA and FR
"GIS” Expert Network
Working Group C“Groundwater”
Chair: Commission and AT
“Chemical Monitoring”
Strategic Steering Group“WFD and Agriculture”
Chair: FR, UK and Commission
Strategic Steering Group“WFD and Hydromorphology”
Chair: DE, UK and Commission
Working Group E“Priority Substances”
Chair: Commission
“Chemical Monitoring”
Drafting Group
“Objectives/Exemptions/Economics”
Chair: Commission and DK
Stakeholder Forum“Water Scarcity and Droughts”
Chair: Commission
Expert Group – Chair: COM/FR/ES/IT
Working Group F“Floods”
Chair: Commission
Water DirectorsSteering of implementation process
Chair: Presidency, Co-chair: Commission
Strategic Co-ordination GroupCo-ordination of work programme
Chair: Commission
Stakeholders, NGO’s, Researchers, Experts, etc.
Art. 21 Committee
Working Group A“Ecological Status”Chair: JRC, DE and UK
Organisation of
Common Implementation Strategy 2007-2009
Working Group D“Reporting”
Chair: Commission, EEA and FR
"GIS” Expert Network
Working Group C“Groundwater”
Chair: Commission and AT
“Chemical Monitoring”
Strategic Steering Group“WFD and Agriculture”
Chair: FR, UK and Commission
Strategic Steering Group“WFD and Hydromorphology”
Chair: DE, UK and Commission
Working Group E“Priority Substances”
Chair: Commission
“Chemical Monitoring”
Drafting Group
“Objectives/Exemptions/Economics”
Chair: Commission and DK
Stakeholder Forum“Water Scarcity and Droughts”
Chair: Commission
Expert Group – Chair: COM/FR/ES/IT
Working Group F“Floods”
Chair: Commission
Water Scarcity and droughts in EU: role of Spain
• Spain, France, Italy and the EC have led an Expert Network on Water Scarcity and Droughts in the framework of CIS.
• Significant role of Expert Network on the Stakeholder Forum and in discussions about the CE Communication on Water Scarcity and Droughts to the EU Parliament (July 2007)
• Spain has led a “Drought Management Plans Report”, approved by EU Water Directors in November 2007.
• Contributing to other international fora: CSD-16, UNECE, WWF, WWC Drought Strategy…
• Drought management plans have revealed as essential tools for the management of drought situations.
• Public Water Supply restrictions have not occurred in spite of being a large drought cycle of 4 years.
• Water saves on irrigation have been a key element for the success of this water management policy. These water savings have been compensated economically with the exemption of fees when water supply were lower than 50% of the usual values.
Conclusions on 2004-2008 drought management