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Operationalisation
Chile
Switzerland
Diversity : Diversity of inputs into
the decision making system,
e.g. Early Warning Systems,
Hazard Mapping, Water
Quality Monitoring, Snow and
Glacier Monitoring etc.
Technical capacity on monitoring is
comparable to developed contexts,
but disparity between technical
expertise and the monitoring inputs
available to administrative
departments and water managers.
Trockenweiseninventar, Suoneninventar, Inventories on
irrigation in fields and meadow, high collation of different
data sets. Less data available on glacier melt contributions
to run-off.
Coverage : Extensiveness and
accuracy of the monitoring
network, including
functionality of equipment and
usability of data for accurate
decision making.
State monitors snow and precipitation,
but irrigators also rely on private
meteorological stations (e.g. Mina
Andina) for weather information.
CONAMA responsible for water
quality monitoring, DGA for water
quantity monitoring (4× per year),
ONEMI for enforcement of quality
failures. Monitoring difficult to
coordinate and then implement
controls. No national network and no
consistent and coherent annual/
monthly/regular monitoring of
quality issues. DGA recently
initiated a Chile wide glacier
monitoring programme.
Hourly quantity monitoring across public and private sectors;
canton quality monitoring as part of a national network
co-ordinated through the federal level. Private sector
collaboration on monitoring network (e.g. Universities,
Canton, Hydropower companies; Engineering
consultancies establishing stream sediment monitoring).
In mountain areas, monitoring network is less advanced
than elsewhere, but more monitoring stations are being
implemented to improve understanding of spring levels
under climate change.
Transparency
Availability/Coverage : Availability
of information on water
resources and ease of access to
that information across all
water stakeholders, across both
the public and private sectors.
Lack of available, systematised and
accessible information on water
rights, water judgments, water
market and prices, and the health and
availability of water resources.
Public water registry is out of date,
Online publication and access of canton and federal data,
plans (e.g. Kantonale Gewässersanierungs Plan, CERISE)
across different platforms (MeteoSuisse, BAFU, vs.ch,
planat.ch). Data on snow-production, water use,
hydropower use are difficult to access, and spread across
multiple companies and communes (though available
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