Seine

Local Authorities at the Heart of Water Management

As a local authority leader, you play a key role in the supply of drinking water, its distribution, and the sanitation for your community.
For this “small water cycle”, the Water Agency can support you technically and financially with:

• Protection of water catchment areas,
• Drinking water production
• Reducing leakage in the networks
• Improving wastewater treatment systems, whether collective or individual.

Water management issues also involve reducing pollution discharged into the natural environment, preserving rivers, wetlands, and coastal areas, and promoting urban development that integrates rainwater management. All this contributes to the challenge of adapting to climate change.

Priorities of the “Water and Climate” Programme 2019–2024

The Seine-Normandy Water Agency is guided by five priorities set by the Ministry for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition:

• Achieving good water status targets set according to the SDAGE;
• Adapting to climate change;
• Restoring biodiversity;
• Mobilising stakeholders and promoting territorial solidarity;
• Protecting public health;

The Seine-Normandy Basin Committee also wanted the climate change adaptation strategy to be implemented operationally within the programme.

Public or private project owners managing collective wastewater treatment for domestic pollution may benefit from the purification bonus.

The development of the 11^th programme addresses new governance and public action challenges (NOTRe Law, GEMAPI, etc.) while aiming to improve the effectiveness of financial support provided by the Water Agency.

This factsheet was designed as a practical tool for local authorities seeking support from the Seine-Normandy Water Agency.