Campos

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Max Campos Executive Secretary Regional Committee on Hydraulic Resources Central America Integration System

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Central America Integration System Regional Committee on Hydraulic Resources

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Central America Integration System SICA is created as an instrument that promotes the integration of Central America and Dominican Republic through four sub systems: Economic integration Social integration Environmental integration Political integration General Secretariat (SG-SICA) Created by the Protocol of Tegucigalpa, 1991.

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Central America Integration System SICA is an international-intergovernmental organization formed by the republics of Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama, and as observer the Dominican Republic. The task of SICA is to execute and coordinate the mandates form the Central American Presidential Summits and the decisions form the Foreign Affairs Council. Authorities: Presidential summits. Executive Committee Council of Minister for foreign Affairs

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Regional Committee on Hydraulic Resources BACKGROUND: Created in 1966………CEPAL, UNDP,WMO. … as a supporting Secretariat for the …Central America Hydro meteorological Project. First systematic hydromet network. Hydropower and sanitation infrastructure Regional Training Centre in Meteorology at University of Costa Rica. CRRH is a technical intergovernmental organization of SICA, specialized in the fields of Meteorology, Hydrology and Water Resources Management.

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Regional Committee on Hydraulic Resources

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MISION To promote integrated water resources management as a fundamental tool for Central America’s development from an appropriated use of information and knowledge of the factors that determine the availability of water and their use Regional Committee on Hydraulic Resources

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Water supply

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Supply depend on…. Variable Climate Climate change Water quality Droughts Floods Variations in rainfall Increase in extreme events Pollution

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Gatún Lake Critical level 1997-1998 81.5’ 1997 1998 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 ENE MAR MAY JUL SEP NOV ENE MAR MAY JUL SEP NOV Normal level Feet Canal de Panama (Vargas, ACP)

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Water Demand

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1.400 3.000 Projections of water demand in Central America (m3/cápita) (Rojas y Echeverría, CRRH-GWP-UICN, 2003).

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POLITICAL WILL: XX Presidential Summit for Central America (Guatemala City, October 1999) Agreement: To adopt a strategic framework for the reduction of natural disasters in the Central American Isthmus, as part of the process for the transformation and sustainable development for the region for the next millennium. Central America Alliance for Sustainable Development (ALIDES) Agenda: Economic-Social-Environmental-Cultural Transformation strategy: Reconstruction and Sustainable Development Regional agenda for competitiveness and Sustainable Development: Improving human resources Effectiveness of our institutions Adequate infrastructure Scientific and technological progress

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STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK: Forest fires control. Conservation and integrated management of water resources Reduction of vulnerability: Climate variability & Change

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ENVIRONMENT: Conservation & protection of natural resources. Meso-American Biological Corridor (CCAD) WATER: Central American Plan on Integrated Water Management (PACADIR). CRRH) NATURAL DISASTERS: Central American Plan for the Reduction of Natural Disasters (CEPREDENAC)

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