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They wonder about the lack of transparency that prevails in the provision of public water supply. Finally, they find it very hard to understand their water bills. A representative survey of consumers carried out in December showed that most consumers believe prices are too high. However, it also showed that they overestimate the price of water Euro 4.

Those who are dissatisfied about tap water quality complain mainly about high levels of chlorine and calcium carbonate. In there were 15, water treatment plants and 17, wastewater treatment plants in France. Water supply, sewerage and wastewater treatment is a municipal responsibility in France. Many municipalities, in particular the smaller ones, have created municipal associations in order to benefit from economies of scale. Six water agencies plan the management of water resources, collect fees for the abstraction of water from rivers and aquifers as well as for the discharge of wastewater to the environment, and use the proceeds to subsidize investments in water supply and sanitation.

At the national level, no single Ministry is in charge of the sector and a variety of Ministries and other entities have attributions concerning specific aspects of the sector. National level The legal framework for water resources management, water supply and sanitation consists of three main laws: At the level of the national government, several Ministries have a role in determining policies for water supply and sanitation: The Ministry of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Territorial Planning Meeddat , the Ministry of Health in charge of monitoring drinking water quality , the Ministry of Interior in charge of supervising local government and the Ministry of Economy and Finance which supervises the Water Agencies together with the Ministry of Ecology.

Environmental regulation is the responsibility of the Ministry of Ecology. Wastewater discharge standards, drinking water quality standards and the framework for water resources management are defined by the European Union through various directives see EU water policy. The country's six water agencies Agences de l'Eau, formerly Agences de Bassins play an important role to bring together stakeholders at the basin level in a "Water Parliament", in levying water abstraction fees and wastewater discharge fees, and in financing infrastructure with the revenues from these fees.

A National Office for Water and the Aquatic Environment Onema was created in under the Ministry of Ecology with the objectives of developing the knowledge of and information about water resources and their uses; enforcing legislation related to water; and to assist local and regional governments in planning the use of water resources. Its functions are related to water resources and not to water supply and sanitation. Unlike in a few other countries such as England and Wales , Portugal or Chile there is no national regulatory agency in France that would approve tariffs and set and control service standards.

There are also no regulatory agencies at the level of the Regions and Departments , unlike in US states. The economic regulation of private service provision is undertaken purely by contract through the municipality. However, the Cour des Comptes National Audit Entity plays a role in monitoring water and sewer tariffs as well as expenditures by utilities.

Local level At the local level, in municipalities with more than 10, inhabitants Consultative Commissions for Local Public Services assist municipalities in regulating service providers. The Commissions were created through the water law. After the commissions initially met with little success, they were strengthened through another law in Their purpose now is to provide better information on public services through the review of annual reports by the service providers and to be consulted on key decisions such as the delegation of service provision to the private sector or the creation of a municipal enterprise.

The consultative commissions are usually chaired by the mayor and their members are members of the municipal council or are nominated by the municipal council. There are about 16, "organizing entities" municipalities and municipal associations in the French sanitation sector and 12, in the water sector. Sanitation services understood as sewerage and wastewater treatment in this context are sometimes provided by the same entity that provides water services, but in some cases they are provided directly by the municipality while an intermunicipal utility is in charge of water supply.

The first ones were created during the 19th century. Today municipal associations together include Some of them provide only urban transport or solid waste management, while others serve multiple purposes. The most common and oldest form of associations are the syndicats intercommunaux , of which there were 18, in January They do not have powers to levy taxes. Subsequent laws created new types of municipal associations that sometimes compete and overlap with the syndicats intercommunaux. Unlike the syndicats intercommunaux these four latter types of municipal associations can levy taxes.

They also receive subsidies from the national government as an incentive to create the associations, with higher subsidies for the most integrated form of association urban communities and lower subsidies for the less integrated forms community of communities.

The syndicats intercommunaux , which do not receive subsidies from the national government and are now somewhat declining in numbers, often count communities of agglomerations and communities of municipalities as their members. The resulting duplication has been criticized as wasteful by the " Black Book of Intercommunality " in Leaving private service providers apart, it is the largest utility in France, serving more than 4 million users.

Some municipalities within SEDIF's service area have chosen to provide water services themselves through communities of municipalities or metropolitan communities. Water privatization in France goes back to the midth century when cities signed concessions with private water companies for the supply of drinking water. In the lease contracts for Paris with Suez and Veolia expired and the water system returned to public management.

Since the early s a number of measures have been undertaken to strengthen competition, to fight corruption and to improve transparency in the French water and sanitation sector. Loi Sapin In January the French Parliament approved the Sapin Law Loi Sapin concerning the prevention of corruption and on the "transparency of economic life and public procedures". A study by the Water Directorate of the Ministry of Environment, carried out by the consultancy TNS Sofres in , showed the following impact of the law in the water and sanitation sector:.

However, it also noted that the decline in payments to private operators has not been passed on to consumers, because it is partially or fully compensated by increases in local taxes. In the charter these entities commit themselves, among others, to the free choice of management models and the reversibility of these choices; objective comparisons between management models; to ensure transparency of costs and to equitably share gains in performance; and to strengthen local democracy and independent evaluations.

In order to facilitate objective comparisons through benchmarking, performance indicators should be developed and an Observatory of Local Public Services should be created to monitor the indicators. However, private water companies have collected and published for the first time indicators about their performance in Water and sanitation tariffs in France vary substantially from one service provider to the other. The six French public water agencies regularly publish the results of water tariff surveys Observatoires de Prix that they carry out among service providers in the respective areas they cover comparting tariff levels.

According to a study by the French Supreme Audit Agency Cour des Comptes , the complexity of water tariffs makes them difficult to understand for users despite efforts to improve the presentation of water bills. The agency also states that flat-rate tariffs that are not linked to consumption levels still persist, although the water law aimed at linking water tariffs to consumption.

However, for commercial tariffs the picture is somewhat different.

Water supply and sanitation in France

According to a study commissioned by the German water industry association BGW in , the picture is again somewhat different. This study does not compare tariffs per cubic meter, but average water bills. The average annual per capita water bill was 85 Euro in France, the same as in Germany 85 Euro , higher than in Italy 59 Euro and lower than in England and Wales 95 Euro.

Equalized costs net of subsidies and taking into account differences in service quality show a different picture: England and Wales have the highest tariffs, followed by France and Germany. Tariffs in Italy remain the lowest, even taking subsidies and differences in service quality into account. Comparison of annual water and sanitation bills per capita in four EU countries taking into account subsidies and differences in service quality.

Fees are destined to the six water agencies at the basin level mentioned above. Taxes include a water consumption tax and VAT. According to a study by the consulting firm BIPE drawing on national statistics the share of household expenditures devoted to water and sewer bills was 0. Investments in water supply and sanitation were estimated at 5.

This corresponds to an average of 4. Investments are financed from a variety of sources.

Only in the case of municipalities with less than 3, inhabitants some limited tax revenue general budget is used to finance water and sanitation investments. It is managed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and its departmental branches. Some municipalities and water agencies are engaged in international cooperation to improve access to water supply and sanitation in developing countries. As opposed to "centralized" international cooperation implemented by the French Development Agency or multilateral development banks , in France this form of aid is called decentralized cooperation.

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