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Regime indicators Operationalisation Chile Switzerland

Holistic : Provisions in legal and rights
framework of incentive to use water
efficiently and effectively across multiple
uses, including incentives for conservation
of water resources.

Water market led to highly connected
supply and sanitation but no price
for water (nor differential pricing
according to use/sector) removes
incentives for demand side or water
balance management; Law 18.450
incentivises irrigation efficiency;
inequities (upstream : downstream)
and over-use (no environmental
flows; full use of water rights
volumes).

Focus on end of pipe solutions; lack of
incentives/provisions for water
conservation.

Capacity : Matching up resources at the level of
enforcement

Lack of capacity in the DGA to
administer water rights, transactions
and hydrological investigations left
to private actors; funds from MOP
for drought response are low in
years with other disasters (e.g.
earthquake of 2010), limiting ability
to implement projects to minimise
economic impacts of drought.

Challenges in enforcement at canton and
local level due to lack of capacity