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Presidential Decree No. 27/16 approving the General Plan for Integrated Use of Water Resources (PGUIRH) within the Cubango River Basin.

Country/Territory
Angola
Document type
Date
2016
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
Diário da República, I Série, No. 14.
Subject
Fisheries, Water
Keyword
Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Aquaculture Waterworks Inland waters Offences/penalties Navigation Transboundary effects Zoning Capacity building Climate change Policy/planning Basin/catchment/watershed
Geographical area
Africa, AFRICA FAO, Central Africa, Least Developed Countries, South Atlantic
Basin
Okawango
Entry into force notes
This Presidential Decree enters into force on the day of its publication.
Abstract

This Presidential Decree approves the General Plan for Integrated Use of Water Resources (PGUIRH) within the Cubango River Basin. This Plan, consisting of 10 sections, is organized in four Phases as follows: Monograph (Phase 1); Definition of development scenarios and objectives (Phase 2); Elaboration of a strategy by measures and actions (Phase 3); Team capacity building (Phase 4). This Plan also focuses on the river basin peculiarity and its water resources management, on the environmental and socio-economic subsystems and their possible scenarios for the development and implementation of basic needs, on the definition of objectives, on the valorisation of water resources, as well as on measures, actions and works schemes related to the main issues concerning the sharing of water with the other boundaries countries of the Cubango/Okavango river basin (Botswana and Namibia) and for legislative and institutional subsystems.

Full text
Portuguese
Website
www.legis-palop.org

References - Legislation

Implements

Presidential Decree No. 82/14 approving the Regulation of General Use of Water Resources.

Legislation | Angola | 2014

Keyword: Aquaculture, Freshwater resources management, Water conservation zone, Water quality standards, Water rights, Water supply, Inland waters, Groundwater, Offences/penalties, Water charges, Servitude, Right to water, Human rights

Source: FAO, FAOLEX