“Morocco continues to pursue its efforts to establish decentralized water management by basin, with a view to ensuring the conditions for the beneficial use of this vital resource that meets the aspirations of development at the national, regional and local levels,” said the minister, who was speaking at the opening of the High-Level Political Segment dedicated to basins, organized as part of the 9th World Water Forum, which is being held in Dakar until March 26.
This meeting of the Basin Segment, organized for the first time at the level of the World Water Forum, saw the intervention of the President of the World Water Council, Loïc Fauchon, the Senegalese Minister of Water and Sanitation, Serigne Mbaye Thiam, the High Commissioner of the Organization for the Development of the Senegal River (OMVS), Hamed Diane Semega, the High Commissioner of the Organization for the Development of the Gambia River, Lansa Fofana, among others.
Speaking on behalf of the International Network of Basin Organizations (INBO), which he chairs, Mr. Baraka noted that the hydraulic basin constitutes the natural space best suited to understanding and resolving water resource management problems, and to achieving effective regional solidarity between users concerned by a common water resource.
The creation of the Hydraulic Basin Agencies more than twenty years ago, he added, demonstrates a proactive policy of decentralization, involving all water stakeholders at the hydraulic basin level.
And to continue that these establishments ensure the development, management and protection of water resources and the public hydraulic domain within the framework of the regulatory, organizational and economic provisions established by the legislative and regulatory texts in force.
The Minister, in this sense, stressed that the promulgation of the new law 36-15 has further strengthened the role of the Hydraulic Basin Agencies and the decentralized and concerted management of water, through the establishment of instruments for user participation in management with the creation in particular of Hydraulic Basin Councils and provincial and prefectural water committees.
He said that this day is therefore of great importance, since it will allow us to highlight basin management and give it all the attention it deserves.
It will therefore make it possible to identify opportunities to be seized to further strengthen planning and management between users at the basin level and enrich the “Dakar Action Plan for basins” which will be adopted today.
Indeed, he continues, basin organizations are multi-actor platforms, and places for dialogue and exchange between users and water stakeholders, institutional and private, making it possible to resolve concrete problems of water resource management, for the benefit of populations.
The World Water Forum is attended by a strong delegation led by Mr. Nizar Baraka and which includes officials and experts from various organizations.
2024-08-24 03:22:07