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Table 13.3 (continued)

Case example
Chile

Network indicators Operationalisation Switzerland

Institutional
integration
(Co-ordination)

Co-ordination/
Clarity : Clearly
de fi ned roles
and means of
coordination
between
institutions,
levels and
relationship to
the physical
boundaries.

Quality (MMA) and quantity (DGA) are
managed separately; Rivers are divided up
into different independent sections
(Aconcagua has 4 sections with 3 JdV) so
that delivery of rights are autonomously
managed per section; different responsi-
bilities for water spread across the different
ministries (mining and hydropower have
the money and the power); drought
commission was created by the president
in conjunction with the drought decree to
integrate Interior Ministry, MOP, and
Ministry of Agriculture, presided over by
the Interior Minister; narrow cooperation
between the ministries during 'normal'
times; Mesa Tecnica includes JdVs, DOH
and CODELCO fully, ESVAL participates
intermittently; surface and groundwater
managed through different instruments, but
the new law improves integration of the
two resources through an instrument to
improve the infiltration of the aquifers to
recover water table levels; land and water
rights also separated in law.

Duplication of effort, trying to better coordinate on natural
hazard management as challenges mount; Water manage-
ment at canton level is sector based working group, who
are conducting preparatory meetings to establish a
Wasserkompetenz Zentrum within the cantonal administra-
tion; lack of co-ordination across different sources/uses
(springs, groundwater, glacier, surface waters, lateral
streams, Rhône); examples of integration of different water
management challenges into one institutional/infrastruc-
tural response in adaptive actions (e.g. MINERVE, TRC);
increasing connection and integration between communes
on water supply; Coordination within and across Valais
(and also Vaud) for TRC, but not to external stakeholders
in the rest of the Basin (Geneva, France); CIPEL provides
platform for coordination and collaboration across the
different communes and countries sharing the Lac Leman;
cross sector coordination through CERISE in water crisis
situations; Hydropower teams at commune levels have
close relationships with communal organisations.