The purpose of this thesis was to capture the development of legal regulation of the Czech water law and of water-law relationships, and to point out that miller's law, fisheries law and navigation law are naturally related to the water law. Water transport and handling were not regulated in any manner in the most ancient times. The Czech water law was built on the heritage of the Roman legal culture. From the end of the 10th century, the first mentions of water-law relationships can be found, particularly in monarch's charters. The first important legal regulations related to water included the Mining Code (Ius Regale Montanorum) by king Wenceslas II of 1300-1305 and the Code Maiestas Carolina by king Charles IV, which was not implemented in practice, though. The so called lawbooks are another significant resource for understanding legal regulations related to water. Elements of a complex legal regulation with statewide legal force started to be applied from the end of the 15th and in the course of the 16th century - a number of municipal establishments and the code of municipal law created by Pavel Kristián of Koldín. A considerable boom of legal regulations with respect to all aspects of water-law relationships was seen during the reign of Maria Theresia and Joseph II (the navigation patent,...

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-06-13T12:27:43Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Vanessa Koetz.pdf: 936294 bytes, checksum: e0e7f3aee5827014853ec7ce819d37a8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-06-13T12:27:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vanessa Koetz.pdf: 936294 bytes, checksum: e0e7f3aee5827014853ec7ce819d37a8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-27 / São Paulo suffered in 2014 a water collapse. Given this, would there be something that the Municipal Government could do to counter this water collapse? What could the Municipal Government have done to avoid reaching the unsustainable environmental situation that the city lives in? What can the Municipal Government do to contribute to the environmental and also the ecological balance of the city and to reverse a century of destruction of the ecosystems in which the city was erected? These are the questions that guide the dissertation. In order to answer them, we first look at the urbanization history of the Municipality of São Paulo. Next, we cover the juridical dimension of the water regime and soil management in Brazil. In the third chapter, we situate the water problem worldwide and investigate the main international documents related to water security and the right to the city. Finally, we seek to understand the specific role of the Municipal Executive of São Paulo in the management, preservation and recovery of water, for the purpose of supplying the population of São Paulo, based on the study of the main normative instruments and public policies of water resources management in the State of São Paulo and municipal urban land planning / São Paulo conheceu no ano de 2014 um colapso hídrico. Diante disso, haveria algo que o Poder Público Municipal pudesse fazer para combater este colapso hídrico? O que poderia ter feito o Poder Público Municipal para não se chegar a situação ambiental insustentável que vive a cidade? O que poderá fazer o Poder Público Municipal para contribuir para o equilíbrio ecológico ambiental, e também hídrico, da cidade e para reverter um século de destruição dos ecossistemas nos quais a cidade foi erguida? São estas as questões que orientam a dissertação. A fim de responde-las, primeiramente, percorremos a história de urbanização do Município de São Paulo. Em seguida, percorremos a dimensão jurídica do regime das águas e do ordenamento do solo no Brasil. No terceiro capítulo, situamos a problemática da água em nível mundial e procedemos à investigação dos principais documentos internacionais relacionados à segurança hídrica e ao direito à cidade. Por fim, procuramos compreender o papel específico do Poder Executivo Municipal de São Paulo na gestão, preservação e recuperação das águas, para fins de abastecimento da população paulistana, a partir do estudo dos principais instrumentos normativos e políticas públicas da gestão dos recursos hídricos no Estado de São Paulo e do ordenamento do solo urbano municipal

This thesis evaluates transparency in the context of water utilities’ regulation by comparing legal frameworks in three jurisdictions: Victoria (Australia), England (United Kingdom) and Jakarta (Indonesia). Each of these jurisdictions is selected because of their particular ownership and regulatory model. The thesis analyses whether specific ownership or regulatory models will have implications for transparency. The terms “transparency” and “water utilities’ regulation” are first defined and form the thesis’ analytical framework. This is then applied against the three jurisdictions compared. By evaluating each of the three jurisdictions, the thesis expects to provide explanation on how transparency is enabled or inhibited by the legal frameworks. The thesis recommends a solution by comparing the three jurisdictions and generating “lessons learned”.

University of Macau / Faculty of Law

University of Macau / Faculty of Law

California has one highly-coveted possession: the Bay-Delta, which is the second largest estuary in the United States. Today, tensions are higher than ever as Southern California continues to grow and demand water from the Delta, agriculture suffers from drought and less-than-promised water allocations, and aquatic life diminishes due to environmentally damaging processes like pumping and exporting of water elsewhere. This paper will examine the historic policies that have shaped how the Delta has been managed, their successes and failures, and current plans in discussion for continuing improvement of the Delta. The Bay-Delta Conservation Plan and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley Water Reliability Act (HR 1837) are the specific current plans presented and analyzed for potential effectiveness. Despite some of the promising suggestions in HR 1837 and the Bay-Delta Conservation Plan, the Delta will remain a problem in the 21st century until stakeholders from all perspectives compromise enough to enact a single, clear-cut solution.

From the Proceedings of the 1978 Meetings of the Arizona Section - American Water Resources Assn. and the Hydrology Section - Arizona Academy of Science - April 14-15, 1978, Flagstaff, Arizona / The recently- created Arizona Groundwater Management Study Commission is mandated to propose a reform of Arizona's groundwater laws. A number of issues must be addressed by this Commission in order to deal with urban problems with present groundwater law. These include: a comprehensive set of regulations on groundwater use to enhance the public interest and benefit in scarce groundwater resources; a permanent mechanism to permit transfer of water rights away from specific parcels of land; an effective system of management which considers differing types of water problems in various parts of the state; a method of quantifying existing rights and measuring use of groundwater; an extraction tax to recognize public costs associated with groundwater mining and the need for replenishment; a reevaluation of existing preferences and subsidies which encourage the mining of groundwater. Failure by Arizona to reform its groundwater laws threatens future funding for the Central Arizona Project and increases the possibility of federal intervention in state water management.

From the Proceedings of the 1978 Meetings of the Arizona Section - American Water Resources Assn. and the Hydrology Section - Arizona Academy of Science - April 14-15, 1978, Flagstaff, Arizona / The relationships between the separate disciplines of hydrology and law are analysed in this study into how water law and its strictures may impose upon the development of urban runoff in the metropolitan Tucson area. Brief descriptions of the doctrine of appropriation, diffuse surface waters and developed waters are presented to illustrate the complexities of the problem of urban runoff development. It is suggested that planners must not only be aware of the legal issues involved but also must understand the philosophy and principles of water law.

The Diploma thesis on the theme "Assessment of flood control measures to protect the population in selected communities of the South Bohemia region in the catchment area of the river Lužnice" is divided into theoretical part and the research part. The theoretical part is a general whole, which in the sections refers to the relevant legislation of the flood problems, it explains the flood as the concept and everything associated with it. In particular it introduces the readers with flood characteristics of the territory of the Czech Republic and with the characteristics of the catchment area of the river Lužnice. It describes the selected municipalities by its flow, which are the subject of the research. It explains the difference between a natural and an extraordinary flood, describes the historic and contemporary floods and their damage. It deals with the protection from natural disasters, characterizes the activities of the relevant organs of the protection flood. In the context of the protection of the population it defines the summary measures that help to ensure the protection of life and health of the people, property and environment in emergencies, which are warning, evacuation, hide and emergency survival of the population and other measures to ensure the protection of life, health and property. The aim of this work is to evaluate the effectiveness of flood control measures from the perspective of the number of the protected inhabitants on the territory. In order to achieve the goals, it was necessary to make several consecutive steps. On the basis of assessed results it could be returned to the research question, whether the built flood protection measures are effective in relation to the protected values of the life, health, property and the environment. For the fulfillment of the objectives of the work and verification of research questions,it was need to be familiar with the relevant legislation of the subject, then with the implemented measures, flood protection plans of the municipalities including analysis of their substantive and organisational components. After that to perform the qualitative processing of the survey, the respondents of which were the statutory representatives of the municipalities, who are in charge of the flood protection, and other charged people (e.g. crisis management staff, officers of the Department of the environment or Building office, etc.). The found facts served to the description, evaluation, comparison and analysis of the flood control measures in relation to the number of the protected inhabitants within the catchment area of the river Lužnice. In this way the concrete results were obtained and discussed in the comments of this Diploma thesis. The submitted Diploma thesis in its research part assesses the effectiveness of the flood control measures in the framework of the protection of the population in the South Bohemia municipalities - Bechyně, Tábor, Planá nad Lužnicí, Soběslav, Dráchov, Veselí nad Lužnicí by the flow of river Lužnice, that touches the ranked in the river kilometres from 10,6 to 77,3 km lines. The inspiration for the processing of this Diploma thesis there were the consequences of disastrous floods in 2002, 2006 and 2013 in these areas, which have caused enormous damage and even loss of life. Then the personal interest of the author, as a resident of the town Veselí nad Lužnicí and respectively the member of the crisis management of this town. The research question and the methodology of the research were designed to be filled the objectives of this thesis, it means the evaluation of the effectiveness of the flood control measures from the perspective of the number of the protected inhabitants on the territory. The thesis evaluated the current status of flood protection, description, comparison and analysis were made. There were designed some of the other possible measures that would, in my opinion, led to the improvement of flood protection...

This article studies the legal regime of groundwater by analyzing the context of integrated water resources management and recognizing its definition and characteristics.Furthermore, it analyses the ownership of ground water, the planning regime applicable, the exploration and exploitation activities, their authorization certificates, the activity of supervision over them, and finally the article describes the special schemes for management and limitation recognized in Peruvian law. / En el presente artículo se estudia el régimen jurídico de las aguas subterráneas, analizando el marco de la gestión integrada de recursos hídricos y reconociendo su definición y particularidades.Asimismo, se analiza la titularidad de las aguas subterráneas, el régimen de planificación aplicable, las actividades de exploración y explotación, sus títulos habilitantes, la actividad de supervisión que sobre ellas recae, para finalmente, dejar anotados los regímenes especiales de gestión y limitación reconocidos en el ordenamiento jurídico peruano.