Our vision
The vision of the members of the French Water Partnership relies on an integrated management of Water Resources: water management by and for everyone.
The cornerstone of the French Water Partnership’s thinking: integrated water resource management, water management by all and for all
Our vision is based on a model of integrated water resource management as a basis for solving the world’s water problems.
What does integrated management mean?
France initiated a veritable revolution in the 1960s in terms of participative governance, financing and the improvement of water quality, aquatic environments and biodiversity.
Since then, French legislation has favored a policy of integrated water resource management on the scale of a coherent hydrographic unit: the river basin.
This implies :
- A global approach to water resources: surface, ground and coastal waters
- Consultation, organization and solidarity among all water stakeholders and users within a basin
- A mechanism for financial solidarity
- A balanced approach between economical management of resources and mobilization of new resources
- Consistency between policies on water, climate, food security, energy, the environment, etc.
To find out more, watch our infographic on French water innovations: