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To elaborate the SDAGE, the pond committees rely on notices edited by commissions attended by several thousand water actors and users : industrials, farmers, private users, consumers' associations, local governments, administration, local councillors. Common SDAGE objectives for the 6 French ponds are: a better control of flood consequences, thanks to a better knowledge of easily flooded zones, continuation of the fight against pollution, improvement of water quality, durable satisfaction of all water use, drinkable water supply warranty, conservation of aquatic environments, protection of groundwaters and protection of wet zones.
When necessary, SDAGE priorities take various forms on a local basis for the SAGE that concern limited hydrographic units.
They set general goals for the use, the development, and the quantitative and qualitative protection of superficial and subterranean water ressources and aquatic ecosystems, as well as for the conservation of wet zones.
The elaboration of the SAGE is part of a logic of research for balance between:
- The protection and the restoration of natural surroundings, - and the necessities for resource development, evolution of rural, urban and economic areas and the satisfaction of the various uses.
• Water agencies
Created in 1964, water agencies play a key role in the development of the water policy in France. Placed under the double custody of the Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development and the Ministry of Finance, these autonomous public establishments implement the orientations defined by the pond committees, in a view to protect water resources and to insure their cleanup.
Water agencies give out grants to local governments, to manufacturers and to farmers who undertake to protect the resources and the quality of water. Thus, they contribute to the financing of operations of collective interest for the organization of water resources, the fight against pollution and the rehabilitation of aquatic environments. Neither contracting authorities, nor project managers, they bring their technical and financial means to the public and private persons who realize these operations.
In order to subsidize these operations, water agencies collect taxes from water users, calculated according to the principle of the "pollutant-payer", set on the quantity of discharged pollution and on taken volumes.
Water agencies work on 5-years action plans, in the form of " intervention programs" which set action priorities and their financing for every pond.
These programs must be adopted by the pond committees and approved by the Prime Minister.