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The pond committees
(plutot que committees of pond..) gather all the water "families" to issue notices and elaborate a pond policy that will be coherent with national orientations and European directives. The dialogue between the various actors of water is indeed the keystone of the French water management system.
The pond committees elaborate action plans called SDAGE (Guiding Plans of Organization and Management of Waters), which set the fundamental orientations of the water policy for the next 15 years. Two major principles are implemented: water management should evolve towards management of aquatic environments, as well as give priority to collective interest. This aims to guaranteeing a sustainable development reconciling socio-economical development with the conservation of aquatic environments and the balance of water use.
The SDAGE are tools... Of forward-looking management: - they involve the State, - they supervise local governments in their decision-making, - they organize intervention prospects (especially Water Agencies prospects).
Of coherence at the level of the big ponds: - they give orientations to the SDAGE, - they make public interventions on major issues compatible - they define new solidarities within the framework of global resource management and sustainable development.