2050 Road to 2050 Iraqi Waters AmmanJordan 9

2050 ﺍﻟﻄﺮﻳﻖ ﺇﻟﻰ ﻋﺎﻡ : ﻣﻴﺎﻩ ﺍﻟﻌﺮﺍﻕ Road to 2050: Iraqi Waters Amman-Jordan 9 August 2007

Water Management Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Benefits üBasic Human Right to Affordable Good Quality Water üSustainability of Vital Eco-Systems & Biodiversity üFood Productivity & Health üIncome Generation, Poverty Reduction and Pro-Poor Growth üJust and Equitable Distribution of Water Goal 3: Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Promote gender equality and empower Women Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases Goal 4: Goal 5: Reduce child mortality Improve maternal health Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development

Water Management Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Tools 1. Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) Ø Ø Strategic water vision and policy with medium and long term objectives Mainstreaming environmental issues Modern Management Techniques Stake holders have a share in the process 2. National Water Council Goal 1: ØMandate: Goal 3: Promote gender Eradicate extreme üWater allocation according to needs equality and poverty and hunger üFormulate long term vision empower Women Goal 4: 5: ØGovernance Structure. Goal : Reduce child üNational plan üWater allocation amongst the various Goal 6: sectors Goal 7: Combat HIV/AIDS, üBuild internal consensus Ensure environmental Malaria and üTechnical and Institutional Capacity other diseases Improve maternal üAttached to PM’s office mortality health üMembership of relevant ministries and entities üBased on legal texts sustainability Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development

Institutional Provisions

Water Management Regional Cooperation Mechanisms Instruments Objectives ü ü Regional Cooperation Mechanism Based on International Law Fair Access Technical Joint & Equitable Committees Share of Trans-Boundary Water Resources Upstream. Dialogue Regional & Downstream Management Cooperation Promote &on: Capitalize Stimulate in the Region: Ø Economic Previous agreements Growth & protocols between the riparian states Ø Water Peace sharing and Stability agreements throughout the world (over 300) Ø Protection of Vital National Interests

OPEN QUESTIONS • In your view, how do existing texts provide for equitable share of waters • • within Iraq? What is your analysis of Article 114, Clause 7 and how would you legislate for it? What do you think the mandate and the governance of the National Water Council should be? In a revision of the Constitution should water management be made a concurrent power, with federal paramountcy? There are international, regional, governorate, and local dimensions to the water issue. How should a federal Iraq address these dimensions.