Presented at the 12th meeting of the OECD Water Governance Initiative, on 20 - 21 June, 2019 in Berlin, Germany

1. Bavarian State Ministry of the
Environment and Consumer Protection
Water Governance in Germany
Creating Holistic Water Infrastructures
as Sorce for Good and Successful Life
Berlin 2019 June 21th
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Grambow
There is no human right on
simplicity [Peter Sloterdijk]

2. Bavarian State Ministry of the
Environment and Consumer Protection
© LfU / Referat 68 / Dieter Rörig / 30.04.2012 2
Neuschwanstein Castle
About Water: The most political ressource in the world

3. Bavarian State Ministry of the
Environment and Consumer Protection
Folie: 3
• Surveillance Management
• Utilisation Management
• Formative Management
Fields of Water
Governance
Implementation
• Social (Human Rights,
• Ecologic (Eg. WFD, Biodiversity)
• Economic (Eg. Costs, Affordability)
Aims (‚Material’
Sustainability
Indicators)
• Personnel Matters
• Structure (incl. Cooperation)
• Processes
Administrative
Indicators
Our holistic
understanding: a
modell

4. Bavarian State Ministry of the
Environment and Consumer Protection
Folie: 4
• Surveillance Management
• Utilisation Management
• Formative Management
Fields of Water
System
Implementation
about 200 Nations and
2000 federal states and
not two found the same
way for water
management
but …

5. Bavarian State Ministry of the
Environment and Consumer Protection
Monitoring
Risk prevention
Climate adaptation
Resource management
Quantitative and qualitative monitoring an analysis
(including hydrogeology and aquatic biology)
Knowledge and information regarding quantity, quality and
distribution of water and soil, early warning systems, research
Every Water Management has
to deal with the three basic
issues of Monitoring, Utility - and
Formative Management.
Actually, the Water Law has to
address all of these issues.
Germany:
Nearly the whole
Watermanagement
in responsibility of
the State Water
Administration
Not selve organizing!!
 State as guarantor

6. Bavarian State Ministry of the
Environment and Consumer Protection
Hydrology
Risk prevention
Climate adaptation
Resource management
Quantitative and qualitative monitoring an analysis
(including hydrogeology and aquatic biology)
State 232,6 m. €
1250 Empl.
(municipalities 30 m. €)
State 51,8 m. €
350 Empl.
(municipalities 3 m. €)
State 61,8 m. €
1000 Empl.
(general public 3 400 m. €)
Total: 346,2 m. €
3000 State Empl.
about 30,000 com. Empl.
Expenses for water services
and administration per year
(estimated, Bavaria)

7. Bavarian State Ministry of the
Environment and Consumer Protection
Folie: 7
• Ecologic (Eg. WFD,
Biodiversity)
• Economic (Eg.
Costs, Affordability)
• Social (Human
Rights on Water)
Aims
(Sustainabiliy
Indicators)
Aims become
indicators and
indicators become
aims

8. Bavarian State Ministry of the
Environment and Consumer Protection
© M. Grambow
intern
Do we know our aims?
Economic Indicators ?
Ecologic Indicators ??
Social Indicators ?
  Human Right to Water
drinking water
 and sevage disposal?
  Healthy Scenery or
landscape, rivers and lakes
as source for recreation,
inspiration, spirituality,
(contribution to a successful life
[Aristoteles])
Folie: 8
Peter Saul [1968]
„Poverty“, Centre Pompidou

9. Bavarian State Ministry of the
Environment and Consumer Protection
Folie: 9
• Personnel Matters
• Number
• Education and further training
• Payment, fair treatmend
• Structure (incl. Cooperation)
• internal and
• surrounding structure
(institutions, society …)
• Processes
• legal processes (formal and
informal, participation or
lobbyism)
• progress charts
• transparence
Administrative
Indicators

10. Bavarian State Ministry of the
Environment and Consumer Protection
© M. Grambow
intern
EU- WFD, EU-FRMD, GroundWD, OceanD
BMU BMWVTBMFFG
EU-Kommission DG XI, DG XY
European
Union
Germany
(and 26 other
nations)
Bavaria (and
15 other
states)
WHG TrinkWV
StMUG
BayWG
Regional Gonernments
StMI
KAG, VwVG
2,017
Communities
17Local Water
Offices
6 WSD
Monitoring
Official Experts
River Construction
Supervision, Consultant+
Subsidies
for communities
legal acts and permits
Water Supply, small
rivers.
department
county
community
LfU
BfG
71 local legal
offices
BfU
MemberintheGermanWaterdirectorMeeting
(LAWA)andthenationalandinternational
RiverbasinCommissions(EgRhine,Danube)
Communi-
cation?
(Luhmann)

11. Bavarian State Ministry of the
Environment and Consumer Protection
Landes-
bank
worldbank EBRD
State ministry for the
Environment and CP
Regional gov.
Kommunalaufsicht
Rechtsaufsicht
State ministry for
finance
Ass. of experts
DWA,
DVGW...
Gemeindetag
Städtetag
Bank
State ministry of the
interior
State agency for the
Environment,
dep. water
Fachaufsicht
Local water offices
Fachaufsicht
Förderung
KFW
county
Kommunalaufsicht
Wasserrecht Gesundheit
Science
Bavarian
parliament
Bavayrian government, here:
Bund (fed. Gov.)
Federal Water Law
Internationale
associations
IWA, GWP, WWC
NGO´s
Camber for
industrie and
commerce
consultants
Ing.-cambers
Arch. - cambers
Construction
companies
suppliers
Europa
WFD, FRMD
Responsible for
Water supply and
Wastewater management
by own stuff or
operator, AG
communities
Mayor
City council
Companies
maintanance bidding
bidding
UN, UNEP,
OECD, ...
Association
of
communities
Communal
financial
control
bidding
Communi-
cation?
(Luhmann)

12. Bavarian State Ministry of the
Environment and Consumer Protection
Agriculture:
- Farming
- Forests
- Fishery
Land management,
Development plans
Health Sector
(Tap-Water)
Industry
- Production
- Navigation
- Cooling
Nature-
Protection
Recreation
Culture
Public Traffics
-Trains, streets
- cables f. information
- and energy
2. The neighbors of
Water Management
Soil-protection
Communi-
cation?
(Luhmann)

13. Bavarian State Ministry of the
Environment and Consumer Protection
EU-Commission
Water Directors,
Strategic Coordination Group,
Working / Expert Groups
Water
management
Nature
protection
Fishes
Agri-
culture
Responsibility
For
IWRM
FGG Donau
FGG Rhein
FGG Elbe
ICPDR
IGKB
FGG Weser
ICPR
ICPER
LAWA
incl. 4
Workgroups
LANA
BLAG KliNa
LABO
BLAC
BMU
mit UBA
D-CZ
Grenz-
gewässe
r-
kommiss
ion
BMVBS
mit BfG,
BAW
D-A
Gew.-
kom.
Alpen-
konventi
on u.
Arge Alp
WSD Süd
CIS-Organisation
Vertical:Hierarchic–Subsidiarity–Internality
Horizontal: Legitimated by cooperation, Transboundary, Transsectoral,

14. Bavarian State Ministry of the
Environment and Consumer Protection
© M. Grambow
intern
Summary
 If there is a human right on water (and that is!) …
 … then there is a human right on a good water
governance and water administration [Ulrich Drost]
Folie: 14

15. Bavarian State Ministry of the
Environment and Consumer Protection
Thank you
Folie: 15