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Ensuring long-term water security is essential in the pathway towards climate change adaptation, inclusive growth and sustainable development in Argentina. In a country with such a large territorial and hydrological diversity, managing water risks and ensuring universal access to drinking water and sanitation, requires effective multi-level governance and planning. The macroeconomic context as well as key megatrends related to climate, demography and urbanisation pose serious challenges to current and future water availability and demand. But they also provide a unique opportunity to set the right incentives towards greater water use efficiency and to transition from crisis to risk management, in a shared responsibility across local, basin, state and national levels.
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Over the past decade, the OECD has accompanied several countries in their efforts to reform water policies as a means to achieve sustainable growth and development. The demand-driven national Water Policy Dialogues help governments at all levels set the water agenda and facilitate ambitious policy reform in a shared responsibility with stakeholders by:
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Ensuring long-term water security is essential in the pathway towards climate change adaptation, inclusive growth and sustainable development in Argentina. Water policy has recently gained higher profile in the national agenda with the launch of an ambitious National Water Plan in 2016 and the creation of a dedicated Secretary of Infrastructure and Water Policy. Moving forward, managing concomitantly the risks of “too much”, ‘too little” and “too polluted” waters, while ensuring universal coverage to drinking water and sanitation is essential for the country to fit for the future. This requires action to strengthen multi-level and basin governance, as well as economic regulation, planning and investment frameworks.
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This chapter introduces basic facts and data on the main characteristics, challenges and uses of water in Argentina, linking with economic development, social inclusion and environmental performance. It pays particular attention to risks of “too much”, ‘too little” and “too polluted” waters, as well as ensuring universal coverage of drinking water supply and sanitation services. The chapter covers how megatrends related to the macroeconomic downturn, climate change, urbanisation and demography, exacerbate current water challenges, but also provide opportunities to drive inclusive and sustainable growth in Argentina.
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This chapter analyses water governance achievements and challenges in Argentina, in the light of major reforms carried out since the early 80s. It provides an institutional mapping of who does what across ministries and levels of government, and assesses how interdependencies across multiple stakeholders, public authorities and policy areas are managed. The chapter uses the 12 OECD Principles on Water Governance to identify water governance gaps in the country, and suggests policy recommendations to bridge them, building on international experience.
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This chapter assess water resources governance at different levels, including international, national, basin, provincial and metropolitan scales, aiming to identify key features and gaps of the existing multi-level system. Building on the assessment, the chapter highlights bottlenecks related to cooperation across levels of government, water planning, and basin management, and concludes with policy recommendations to better cope with water challenges in the face of climate change.
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This chapter provides an overview of the current development and performance of water and sanitation services in Argentina, and zooms in the legal, institutional and regulatory frameworks of the sector. It describes how regulatory functions and responsibilities are allocated across different levels of government. It identifies key governance and regulatory challenges that the sector faces. It then discusses how to improve water and sanitation services governance, as well as the delivery of regulatory functions, tools and incentives.
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