Basin solidarity transfers for financing water infrastructures and

services in the French overseasAlexis DELAUNAY, Head of Inspections and territorial actionONEMA15 March, 2012, Adapt water management to the specificities of the outermost regions

Overseas regions in FranceOverseas regions in France

A growing populationTwo million inhabitants, in growth

Mayotte in the course of integration like overseas region

BackgroundInexistent or obsolete drinking water and waste water infrastructures

Technical difficulties of coastal-island ecosystems (coast, mangrove swamps, coral reefs, ...) and tropical climate

Both the Council Directive concerning urban waste water treatment and the Water Framework Directive apply in French overseas department

40 years delay in water governance (recent establishment of the overseas water agencies and royalties)

Water price equal, when not superior, to national average

A solution: basin solidarityA solution: basin solidarity

A mechanism of basin solidarityA dedicated share of royalties paid to water agencies

by metropolitan French water users

Awarded to overseas communitiesThrough the ONEMA

For the implementation of the Council Directive concerning urban waste water treatment and the Water Framework Directive

As national counterpart of the European subsidies

> In addition to local investment efforts

European operational programs

European funds are essential to comply with the Council Directive concerning urban waste water treatment

Basin solidarity by ONEMA comes in addition to local investment efforts

European funds

basin solidarity

Local efforts

Efforts which remain insufficient

Main water-treatment plants quoted in the European litigation (2000) in constructionBut, urban areas of more than 2000 inhabitants recently not complyingLow rate of connection to waste water systems causing public health problems

Efforts to continue

•during next European operational programs 2014-2020

•Mechanism of basin solidarity completing local taxes

•develop regional cooperation between overseas regions and neighboring countries

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