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Haiti - Environment : Bill on the Committees of Watershed Management 25/11/2012 11:02:51 For the Ministry "In Haiti the degradation of renewable natural resources in general and watershed management in particular, represent a major problem that has attracted the attention of many. However, the intervention of various national and international bodies for more than half a century has not brought the sensible solution "Pearl of the Antilles" of the fifteenth century has now become the 'Pelée des Antilles' with its hillside increasingly denuded, the irrigation infrastructure and the agricultural plains often buried under sediments, the water resources increasingly scarce and the wild waters less and less controllable. The causes of this widespread failure are manifold. We could among others include : land issues, lack of completeness of communities in the management of their watersheds, the inadequacy of the techniques used to the contexts agro-ecological and socio-economic, the excessive focus on the aspects of protection in the watershed management etc... However, unanimous we link the current situation to the lack of coordination and of harmonization of many land management actions and of watershed in particular. Which favored the multiplication of interventions dispersed in time and space of the different actors. Also, a bill on the structuring of management committees of watershed, was discussed in a workshop with parliamentarians, representatives of the Ministries of Agriculture and Environment, associations and local authorities, financial partners, technical services of the State in order to :
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