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38-792: Responsibilities and tasks of the WWK (= water board West German canals) are defined in the related statutes, enacted December 3, 1969, based on a treaty between the German Federal Ministry for Transport and the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and an executive order of the Environment Ministry of North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ). The WWK is a public German water board (“Wasserverband”) located in Essen ( North Rhine-Westphalia / Germany ) and responsible for

76-463: A Water Office, with equivalent missions. In Germany water boards ( Wasserverbände or Wasserwirtschaftsverbände ), also sometimes translated as water associations, are organizations set up under public law for different purposes ranging from wastewater treatment , flood protection, groundwater management, bulk water supply, irrigation, drainage, the restoration and protection of ecosystems to water resources monitoring. Water boards are established on

114-529: A basin agency, is a public administrative establishment that participates in water management within an administrative basin district, whose boundaries correspond to a large hydrographic basin. There are six of them, all established by the Water Law of 1964, specified by the Law of 3 January 1992. The hydrographic basins of the overseas departments of Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, and Réunion are equipped with

152-460: A formal member. In cases of water shortage they have to renounce the supply for the benefit of the regular members. The need of service water varies very much – for example annually for a public pool 500 m/year up to 15 million m/year for a thermal power station. All together the withdrawal is on the average 60 million m/year (with downward drift). The technically possible maximum of 400 million m/year has never been used. The discharge of canal water via

190-578: A key role in the South African water sector. They operate dams, bulk water supply infrastructure, some retail infrastructure and some wastewater systems. Some also provide technical assistance to municipalities. Through their role in the operation of dams they also play an important role in water resources management. The Water Boards report to the Department of Water and Forestry. Lippeverband Too Many Requests If you report this error to

228-631: A national body called the Water Services Regulatory Board (WASREB), a non-commercial state corporation established in March 2003 on the basis of the 2002 Water Act. Its functions comprise among others: issuing of licenses to water services boards and approval of service provision agreements between service providers and asset holding companies, developing tariff guidelines and carrying out tariff negotiations, setting standards and developing guidelines for service provision, publishing

266-460: Is declining. Circular economy , energy efficiency in all kind of businesses and the reduced water demand due to the changing energy policy (reduction of thermal power stations) unburden the river. Moreover, the discharge of warmed water back to the river has been regulated by public law. Improved municipal waste water treatment and the decline of coal mining have had positive impact on the water management, too. The water demand for shipping nevertheless

304-481: Is important in the West German canal system. To compensate the loss of water from evaporation, infiltration and locking in the sluices annually 500 million m of water have to be injected. To reduce especially in dry weather periods the demand of water that gets lost from the sluices it is locally pumped up again. The total water demand from the canal system of up to 800 million m/year is mainly covered by supply from

342-774: The Datteln-Hamm Canal was opened, too. In 1930 the Wesel-Datteln Canal was finished. All these connected waterways need to bridge altitude differences between the starting point, the connected harbours and the arrival point. For these purposes there are today e.g at the Rhine-Herne Canal 5 sluices and at the Wesel-Datteln Canal 6 sluices; at the Henrichenburg boat lift two ancient and two actually utilized sluices facilitate

380-763: The Emschergenossenschaft was founded and the other Wasserwirtschaftsverbände followed hereafter. Today about 75% of the land area in North Rhine-Westphalia are managed by Wasserwirtschaftsverbände , covering the sub catchments of the Rhine or Meuse tributaries. The administrative and organisational frame is comparable to the Dutch water boards ( waterschappen ). Water Services Boards in Kenya are asset holding companies. They are responsible for

418-789: The 13th century as private associations that subsequently evolved into boards established under public law. Wasserwirtschaftsverbände in North Rhine-Westphalia are a different type of water boards and may also have members from industry, mining companies, slaughterhouses, hospitals etc., depending on the volume of waste water or impact on the regional water management. The 11 here established water boards ( Aggerverband, Bergisch-Rheinischer Wasserverband, Emschergenossenschaft , Lippeverband , Erftverband, Linksniederrheinische Entwässerungsgenossenschaft (LINEG), Niersverband, Ruhrverband, Wahnbachtalsperrenverband, Wasserverband Eifel-Rur, Wupperverband ) have their historical starting point in

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456-663: The 13th century. The National Water Resources Board (NWRB), created in 1976 through the National Water Code, coordinates policies concerning water resources. Since 2002, the National Water Resources Board (NWBR) is also entrusted with the economic regulation of water supply systems operated by local government units and water districts. The National Water Supply and Drainage Board is the National Organization responsible for

494-758: The Datteln-Hamm Canal and on 102 days canal water was pumped into the Lippe. The Stever is a tributary of the Lippe which is fed by water out of the Dortmund-Ems Canal and has a huge meaning for drinking water supply for the northern Ruhr region. To balance the whole system the Stever – after being fed out of the canal in Senden – is backed-up in two water reservoirs (Talsperre Hullern and Halterner Stausee) of 32 million m capacity. Two-thirds of

532-566: The District Council of Düsseldorf and the Environment Ministry of North Rhine-Westphalia. Moreover, the distributed volume of water depends on pump capacities and demands of the shipway trafficability. As the canals are designed for navigation all other interests are second-rank. Members of the WWK decide about the guidelines of the association, the business plan and fees, elect the chairman (“Verbandsvorsteher”) and chief operating officer (“Geschäftsführer”). The number of votes depends on

570-681: The Federal Waterways Authority (Bundeswasserstraßenverwaltung”). The construction of artificial shipping canals was necessary in the industrialisation period of the Ruhr due to lacking transportation routes via capable, navigable rivers. The oldest part, the Dortmund-Ems Canal , is connecting the eastern Ruhr since 1898 with the North Sea. In 1914 the connection to the Rhine followed via the Rhine-Herne Canal and

608-421: The Lippe and Ruhr. The permission to withdraw up to 25 m/second from the Lippe still today is limited to a remaining discharge in the Lippe of 10 m/second. If the water level in the river falls below that flow rate the Lippe receives up to 4.5 m/second out of the canal system for low water replenishment. For example in the 12 months period from November 2014 to October 2015 the Lippe discharged on 257 days water into

646-514: The Lippe has enough water to supply with. Parallel pumping systems had been developed along the Rhine-Herne Canal and the Wesel-Datteln Canal/ Datteln-Hamm Canal, all controlled and supervised from a centralized telecontrol station. Today the Lippe and the West German canal system still play a decisive role regarding the supply of industry and businesses with service water, even though the water demand in total

684-408: The Lippe, too, otherwise the water abstraction for the canals had to be limited. This regulation was possible because of already constructed pumps at the sluices that started compensating partly the loss of water from locking. In the years 1973-1978 a series of new pumping stations was established that could serve the canals “upstream” from the rivers Rhine and Ruhr and discharge “downstream” in case

722-499: The Ruhr to the area at the canals. The regionally diversified origin and processing of drinking water – pumped water from Rhine and Ruhr , various groundwater wells, replenishment with infiltrated canal water – guarantees constantly the regional supply with water of highest quality in Ruhr and Münsterland region. Hereby it is also possible in case of calamities (like exceeding threshold values at certain groundwater wells) to substitute

760-562: The Stever flow is discharged downstream; one-third is used by the drinking water supplier Gelsenwasser AG for drinking water processing via soil infiltration from groundwater wells (of all together approximately 129 million m/year). Additionally the municipal utilities Stadtwerke Münster use water from the Dortmund-Ems Canal to supply the groundwater wells for drinking water processing. In total, via several water works annually 250 million m of water are transported in pipework from

798-482: The Stever into Halterner Stausee and Talsperre Hullern depends on the annual rainfall, for example the discharge in 1976 was 11.5 million m but in “wet years” nothing is discharged. The withdrawal of service water that is used and has to be treated separately and discharged as waste water is invoiced with 0.0353 €/m (waste water is invoiced separately by the operator of the wastewater treatment facility). For water that has been removed, warmed-up and discharged again into

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836-442: The WWK comprises the Rhine-Herne Canal , the Wesel-Datteln Canal , the Datteln-Hamm Canal and the Dortmund-Ems Canal . The main tasks are Though being a statutory body the WWK has no sovereign power but depends on permissions of governmental institutions. For the amount of water tapped by local clients individual permissions from the responsible municipal or District Council departments are obligatory. Regulating authorities are

874-421: The adjustment of the river Lippe water level and service water supply from the West German shipping canals and artificial watercourses in connection with the rivers Rhine , Lippe and Ruhr . The responsibilities are solely covering the water supply sector and not the operation of the shipping canals that are under direction of the Federal Waterways Authority (Bundeswasserstraßenverwaltung). The catchment area of

912-542: The bypassing of the altitude difference within the Dortmund-Ems-Kanal to Dortmund harbour. To feed the planned canal system with water already in 1905 before the construction of the Datteln-Hamm Canal the decision was passed by the Prussian State to use 10 m/second water from the river Lippe – the only relevant river in the area – for the compensation of evaporation, infiltration and loss of water from

950-405: The canal the invoice value is 3.3% of that amount. The fees cover the costs that appear from operation and maintenance of the pumping stations and other costs related to the water services. Water board A water board is a regional or national organisation that has very different functions from one country to another. The functions range from flood control and water resources management at

988-588: The coal and steel industry and especially the coal-fired power stations after World War II meant a growing demand of service water (from the canals and the river Lippe) and a growing discharge of too warm and/or unsatisfactory treated waste water into the river Lippe. Negotiations of the Lippeverband with the government of North Rhine Westphalia and with the Federal Waterways Authority (Bundeswasserstraßenverwaltung) were finally from 1968 on leading to new regulations: The ’’Wasserverband Westdeutsche Kanäle’’ WWK

1026-545: The densely populated Ruhr region and the high water quality is (since 1989 the Internationale Bauausstellung Emscher Park took place) frequently topic in scientific, public and political debates about the utilisation of attractive urban water fronts, also in context with climate change aspects. Members of the WWK are according to the status 31.12.2014: Customers with lower water demand may draw insignificant amounts without becoming

1064-412: The development and rehabilitation of water and sewerage facilities, for investment planning and implementation in their service area. There are 8 regional Water Service Boards in the country. The Water Service Boards have signed service provision agreements with 120 local Water Service Providers that are responsible for the operation of water and sewerage systems. The Water Service Providers are regulated by

1102-638: The industrial developments in the 19th century and are always public and non-profit organisations. In parallel, in the middle of the 19th century the Emscher catchment experienced hard coal mining and steel industry, in the Erft catchment brown coal mining started and in the Wupper catchment chemical and textile industry expanded. The growing environmental and health problems were leading to legislative solutions with specialized catchments area related laws. In 1899

1140-535: The legal basis of the federal law on water and soil associations ( Gesetz über Wasser- und Bodenverbände ), complemented by state laws in several German states ( Länder ) such as in Lower Saxony where water boards are in charge of coastal protection or North Rhine-Westphalia where water boards are based on state laws passed specifically for the purpose of creating these public service and welfare organisations. Membership can be voluntary or mandatory, depending on

1178-496: The provision of safe drinking water and facilitating the provision of sanitation to the people in Sri Lanka. The main functions of the organization are implementation of new urban and rural water supply projects, carrying out sector planning, feasibility studies, detailed designs, tender documentation, contract administration, project supervision and research and development work in the water and sanitation sector. Water Boards play

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1216-661: The purpose of the water board. Members can be individuals, typically landowners in the area covered by a water board, or municipalities. The members of the Wasserverband Westdeutsche Kanäle are for example industrial players and drinking water suppliers, too. There are thousands of water boards in Germany, mostly in Northern Germany and usually consisting of individual members. The first such water boards were created for coastal protection in

1254-686: The quantity to be received The control and supervision is carried out from a centralized telecontrol station in Datteln The West German shipping canals serve the mass transportation in the Ruhr region between the rivers Rhine and Ems direction North Sea and via the Mittelland Canal to the Weser , Elbe , Oder and Vistula . This canal network shows the highest traffic density in Europe. The canals are state-owned by

1292-652: The regional or local level (the Netherlands, Germany), water charging and financing at the river basin level (France), bulk water supply (South Africa), regulation of pricing and service quality of drinking water supply at the national level (Kenya) or the coordination of water resources policies between various Ministries and agencies at the national level together with the regulation of drinking water supply (the Philippines). A water agency in France, formerly called

1330-434: The results of sector monitoring in the form of comparative reports. Dutch water boards (Dutch: waterschappen or hoogheemraadschappen ) are regional government bodies charged with managing water barriers, waterways, water levels, water quality and sewage treatment in their respective regions. These regional water authorities are among the oldest forms of local government in the Netherlands, some of them having been founded in

1368-458: The sluices). That was leading from 1914 on to severe water management problems in the river Lippe where in dry summers only 4 m/second water was left downstream. From 1926 on the newly established water board Lippeverband negotiated with the competent authorities and finally the governmental waterway administration (“Reichswasserstraßenverwaltung”) confirmed to reduce the water abstraction to 7.5 m/second from 1938 on. The industrial development of

1406-411: The water supply from other sources (like the infiltration of canal water). Along the canals industry and businesses consume about 60 million m annually for cooling, production, irrigation and the afore mentioned processing of ground water wells. Frequent measurements of state-approved inspection authorities show results and values close to drinking water quality in the canals. The network of the canals in

1444-410: Was established, consisting of representatives of the Lippeverband and the water users, accompanied by the Federal Waterways Authority and the Environment Ministry of North Rhine Westphalia . Moreover, the permission for maximum discharge of the Lippe into the West German canal system was increased to 10 m/second again but now with the additional limitation to guarantee a minimum discharge of 10 m/second in

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