HR: 11:05h
AN: H22D-04    [Abstracts]
TI: Policy Recommendations for the Argentinean Water Resources National Plan Related to Extreme Events in Forested Mountain Basins.
AU: * Urciuolo, A B
EM: urciuolo@tdfuego.com
AF: Direccion de Recursos Hidricos, San MArtin 1401, Ushuaia, Argentina
AU: Iturraspe, R J
EM: rodolfoiturraspe@yahoo.com
AF: Direccion de Recursos Hidricos, San MArtin 1401, Ushuaia, Argentina
AU: Lofiego, R
EM: urciuolo@tdfuego.com
AF: Direccion de Recursos Hidricos, San MArtin 1401, Ushuaia, Argentina
AB: In the framework of activities developed by COHIFE (Federal Water Resource Council), Argentina is preparing the Water Resources National Plan. To achieve an integrating project and considering that Argentina is a federal country, each province is working on the basis of its own Water Resources Provincial Plan. The first step of the plan consists in the identification of problems, with the purpose of further defining solutions based on structural and non structural actions. The general perception of the stakeholders involved in the plan development is the necessity of the analysis of strategies for the integrated water resource management Although a first document for water policy, named "Principios Rectores de Política Hídrica" is available, there are not specific strategies for integrated management of water and land use oriented to extreme events. In other way, there are a lack of policies oriented to Mountain basin with forest coverage, may be because of most of the population and the economical structure of the country is located on plain regions. This article proposes recommendations for policy to be integrated to the Water Resources National Plan, based on studies developed in a pilot basin representative of the Andean-Patagonia eco-region, in the framework of the EPIC FORCE proyect, financed by the European Union. Project methodology includes basin instrumentation, reconstruction and analysis of extreme events and land-water management practices revision. Climate, flow and sediment Data are available for simulation using the Shetran model on different land use scenarios, including changes in the basin forest coverage. On the basis of the first results of the project, policy guides oriented to fill mentioned policy lacks were defined.
UR: http:www.ceg.ncl.ac.uk/epicforce/
DE: 1804 Catchment
DE: 1821 Floods
DE: 1880 Water management (6334)
SC: Hydrology [H]
MN: 2007 Joint Assembly