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WATER and HEALTH Targets and Target Dates

Detailed overview of Hungary's experience with implementing the Protocol on Water and Health, including formation of Responsible Body, recent proceedings, and target setting for water-related issues.

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WATER and HEALTH Targets and Target Dates

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  1. WATER and HEALTHTargets and Target Dates Experiences with the implementation of the Protocol on Water and Healthin Hungary Mihály Kádár Water and Health Workshop, 14-16 May 2008, Bucharest, Romania

  2. Retrospection • Long history of the Protocol in Hungary: • One of the founders of the Instrument • On the lead for the implementation; initially • stronger activity on the international scene • less accent on the internal affairs • Ratification: 4 Augustus, 2005 • Meeting of the Parties 1 – January, 2007 • Draft targets and target dates – not yet settled then • Original deadline for target setting: August, 2007

  3. A Responsible Body Formed • Special Committee on Water and Health • initiated before the MOP1 • founding of SCWH officially decided at the regular meeting of the Interministerial Committee on Health on 24 January, 2007 • acts as a special (sub-)committee of the IMCH • Office holders; ToR, RoP, invited representa-tives of several ministries and stakeholder organisations • Working groups (3) to complete tasks

  4. Invited organisations • Min Health – two participants  • Min. Environment and Water  • nominated 5 participants bearing expertise in international environmental affairs, drinking water matters, water management affairs, environmental health, sanitation and sewage treatment • Min. Local Government and Regional Development • state secretariat of the local governments • state secretariat of regional development • state secretariat of tourism • Min. Economy and Transport  • Min. Agriculture and Rural Development () • Prime Minister’s Office

  5. Invited organisations (cont’d) • National Development Agency • National Centre of Epidemiology  • Natl. Institute of Environmental Health: several senior experts  • National Inspectorate of Medicinal Spas • Non-Governmental Organisations • MaVíz (Ass. of the Hungarian Water and Sanitation Utilities) – two experts  • Hungarian Ass. Of Sanitation Technology • Hungarian Spa Association  • Hungarian Society of Swimming Pool Technology

  6. Recent proceedings • WGs arranged according the subparagraphs of PWH Art. 6 (2): • WG on drinking water and water management affairs • WG on matters of sanitation and sewage • WG on bathing waters (natural and enclosed), etc. • Concluding the first term in January, 2008: • WG meetings with targets and target dates proposals • 2. SCWH meeting to discuss, amend and adopt proposals • Table on targets and target dates updated • Delay of target-setting in several matters decided • Final proposal submitted to the IMCH for adoption

  7. Recent proceedings (2) • ToR and RoP – final version adopted: • SCWH is the body (inter alia): • to co-ordinate the implementation of the PWH • to co-ordinate the implementation of legal instruments in inter-ministerial competence • to inform IMCH, other policy makers and the government in the water-and-health related matters • to make informal arrangements for smoother co-operation of the relevant ministerial departments in the water-and-health related affairs • To promote and assist public access to information in matters of water-and-health relevance • Targets and target dates have recently been published via: • Website of the SCWH (http://efrirk.antsz.hu/oki/vesejeg) • Electronic and paper newsletter of the SCWH

  8. Targets and target dates – drinking water

  9. Targets and target dates – Water related diseases

  10. Targets and target dates – Access to drinking water

  11. Targets and target dates – Access to sanitation

  12. Targets and target dates – levels of performance of collective systems

  13. Targets and target dates – management of water supply and sanitation

  14. Targets and target dates – untreated wastewater discharges

  15. Targets and target dates – quality of discharges to waters under the PWH

  16. Targets and target dates – disposal of sewage sludge and wastewater for irrigation

  17. Targets and target dates – quality of sources of drinking, bathing, etc. waters

  18. Targets and target dates – management of enclosed bathing waters

  19. Targets and target dates – remediation of contaminated sites

  20. Targets and target dates – management of water resources/control of groundwater pollution

  21. CONCLUSIONS • Implementation proceeds favourably under legal control (PWH enacted) • Target setting is the principal framework of implementation • Must be coordinated and focussed • Must be collective, conciliated and iterative • Targets and target dates can be phased and conditional (engagement in next phase connected to pre-set conditions) • Revision may be reasonable but relativisation is to beware of (better to set less ambitious butfail-safe targets)

  22. Thank You For Your Kind Attention!

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