Regional Water Resources Councils (CRRH)
The Regional Water Resources Councils are a consequence of the reform of Article No. 47 of the Constitution of the Republic in 2004, and the result of a plebiscite of popular initiative in October 2004. Uruguay was the first Latin American country to declare in its Constitution the access to drinking water and sanitation as fundamental rights and also enshrines the principle of water users? and civil society participation in the planning, management and monitoring of water. As a result, the new National Water Policy was formulated through Law No. 18.610 of 2009, which includes CRRHs. In 2011, through Decrees 262/2011, 263/2011 and 264/2011, the three CRRHs of the Country are formed: the Uruguay River Basin, the Merín Lagoon Basin and the River Basin Of Silver and its Maritime Front. The councils are formed in a tripartite manner with seven government delegates, seven water users and seven from civil society. They are chaired by the National Water Director (DINAGUA) of the Ministry of Housing, Territorial Planning and Environment (MVOTMA). Its main objective is to build a Regional Water Resources Plan and ensure its implementation. They must also function as a link between the Executive Power and other relevant stakeholders and promote the Citizen Participation Law provided for in the Law, which also involves promoting and coordinating the formation of Basin and Aquifer Commissions and supporting the implementation of Local Plans.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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