Assessing Adaptive Capacity - Climate Change and Water Governance: Adaptive Capacity in Chile and Switzerland - page 277

Network indicators Operationalisation Chile Switzerland

Incentivisation :
Mechanisms to
incentivise
cooperation
amongst water
stakeholders
within a basin.

Bi-lateral agreements between different sets of
rights holders; increasing cooperation
between mining sector and farmers (e.g. 10
million peso donation from Mina Andina
to JdV, administered by the CNR as the
executive and technical body for utilisation
of the funds); private financing through
water rights owners for maintenance and
upkeep of distribution system - users pay
for the operation and maintenance of
infrastructure, while the state bears cost of
the capital investment (Water Law
1981/1123); Government is liable to pay
compensation for affectation to 3rd party
rights from DGA drought management
decisions (i.e. if new wells affect the rights
of other owners), and compensate for the
costs of extra infrastructure required for
water supply.

NFA provides subsidies for increased participation in the
implementation of water management projects (including
meeting ecological criteria); reliance on financial and
technical capacity at federal and canton levels provides for
higher levels of cooperation at commune levels (where
autonomy and sovereignty is strong); rivalries persist
between different communes and the cantons on decision
making on watercourse management - but attempts to
reconcile them through participative consultation in TRC
and final technical implementation signed off by Valais
(and Vaud) Council; participative project planning/approval
process is resource and time intensive, but aims to foster
consensus and cohesion (Hydropower, TRC etc.).

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