Summary (En)

Given the increasing competition for available water supplies, both within sectors and across sectors, some type of legal right is required to provide assurance of water supply. The ability to trade these rights is also needed in order to allow transfers of water from lower to higher value uses. Thus, the innovative nature of Chilean water law is very important as a model for other countries to examine. This law establishes secure water rights that are both tradeable and transferable as well as having provisions to protect third parties. It also provides for a market allocation mechanism within and between sectors. Local management organizations have the

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International Irrigation Management Institute, 127 Sunil Mawatha, Pelawatte via Colombo, Sri Lanka|COMOD

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