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Table 13.3 (continued)

Case example
Chile Network indicators Operationalisation Switzerland

Collaboration :
Trust, power
balances, mixed
nature of
support
structures.

Broken agreements between JdV leads to a
lack of trust across upstream and
downstream sections of the basin and
diminishes the ability to informally
manage water sharing, thereby requiring
intervention from the DGA; weaker
economic actors (including smaller
farmers, or those last in the canal) struggle
to protect their water rights from quality or
quantity damage by stronger economic
actors (e.g. mining); negotiations between
irrigators and farmers concern increased
groundwater exploitation or compensation
from drought declaration to pay for
constructing more wells; political battle to
amend the Water Code was ideological,
acrimonious and lengthy for minor
changes; general lack of trust between
water rights owners community (including
DOH) and DGA over Aconcagua Project
and well abstraction.

Canton provides financial support for remediation when the
communes cannot cover the costs (e.g. 1993); Investment
in irrigation infrastructure through both canton and federal
subsidies and technical assistance
( Landwirtschaftszentrum ) and programmes supported by
charities at the national level, with the aim of maintaining
both built and social infrastructure of the Suonen for social
cohesion and conflict resolution; Financial and technical/
training assistance provided to communes for water course
management and implementation of cantonal provisions
(hazard mapping, zoning); collaborative adaptation
research projects ( Regionprojekt, Verwerktung Markt am
Handel ) between tourism and agriculture; distrust of
canton/ecological sectors and agricultural lobby over land
issues in TRC.

Participation (Ref
GA)

Participation :
Providing a
voice in
decision-mak-
ing across water
stakeholders.

Water management is effectively in the hands
of water rights owners, providing for
strength of participation according to the
amounts of rights that are owned; civil
society participation (as per the IWRM
model) is weakly provided for through
consultation in the EIA process (or in other
basins the Mesa del Agua).

Participative process in TRC implementation (COREPIL)
attempted to reconcile different stakeholder positions, but
is time and resource intensive and reduces the innovative
elements of the project; participation in development and
building planning open to organisations
( Verbandbeschwerderecht; EIA) and individuals, though in
reality may not be implemented.