Multiple, overlapping competencies at different territorial levels
Institutional landscape of water management in France
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Multiple, overlapping competencies at different territorial levels
Institutional landscape of water management in France

Author : Véronique NICOLAS

Publication date: August 10, 2011 | Lire en français

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2. Multiple, overlapping competencies at different territorial levels

2.1 Plurality of water: which players and which rules come into play?

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2.1.1 Water as a consumer good

As industrialization progressed, public authorities developed systems for collecting water, treating it to make it drinkable, then collecting domestic wastewater, treating it and returning it to the natural environment, primarily in large cities. This artificial cycle is commonly referred to as the "small water cycle".

Under the French General Code of Local Authorities, communes or their groupings...

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