Stockholm and beyond : report.

  • United States. Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment.
Date:
1972
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Credit: Stockholm and beyond : report. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    151. Governments should establish, where this has not yet been done, an inte-- grated institutional framework for water resources management and develop-- ment. The institutional framework should include appropriate institutions (agen-- cies, authorities, institutes, boards, councils, etc.) of nationwide as well as of! regional and local competence ; @ in the subdivision of the responsibilities, among areas, due attention: should be paid to the boundaries of the national hydrological regions (river! basins, lake basins, groundwater systems) ® the institutional framework should not be subordinated to any of the: agricultural or industrial departments representing only one or a group of! the water management fields. The institutional framework should be structured and staffed for the execu-- tion or supervision and co-ordination of the following principal functions: © legal and fiscal administration in all the fields of water managementti relevant under the conditions of the country. This includes: ee providing affected parties the opportunity to have a voice in decisions: ee granting rights and issuing licenses, permits, or concessions @®@ provision that externalities associated wtih waste discharge be ac-- counted for ® operation of water supply and water management systems ® water resources development planning. @ construction and maintenance of water management projects and structuress @ data acquisition and research. Allocation of water as to amount, quality and timing should be centralizedi at the national and regional levels in planning as well as in operational decisions. | Structure and procedures should be established assuring an equitable co-- operation with other brau:ches of the national administration at appropriate: levels. 152. Governments should undertake, where necessary, comprehensive surveyss of water resources and water demands. The surveys should include: @® the assessment of the actually and potentially available fresh waterr resources with due attention to @@ the availability of hydrological, meteorological and hydrogeographicall data and inventories @@ the interdependences among the water resources of the adjacent re-- gions as well as among the different types of the water resources ( river lakes, groundwaters) @e@ the opportunities of augmenting the available resources by storage reservoirs, artificial recharge of groundwaters, watershed management andi other measures ee the quality and time distribution of the available resources @ the assessment of the actual water uses and expected future water re-- quirements whereby | e@ particular attention should be paid to domestic and public waterr supply ee elasticity of the industrial and agricultural water requirements should] be considered ee quality requirements and polluting effects should be identified.