1. WATER AND ADAPTATION Principles, Positions and Mexico´s Experience Water Day; Bonn, June 2, 2010 WATER AND ADAPTATION Principles, Positions and Mexico´s Experience Water Day; Bonn, June 2, 2010

2. PRINCIPLES Historical responsibility Polluters pays principle Common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities Precautionary principle

3. PROPOSALS 1.International Insurance Mechanism to deal with water related disasters induced from climate change (floods and droughts). 2.International Mechanism to compensate the loss and damage from climate change impacts (land and water source). 3.Ecosystem Based Adaptation to enhance the adaptative and resilience capacity of vulnerable communities and ecosystems from climate change.

4. PROPOSALS 3. Ecosystem Based Adaptation to enhance the adaptative and resilience capacity of vulnerable communities and ecosystems from climate change. Healthy, bio-diverse environments role in increasing resilience Adaptation as an institutional Water as a “unit” not as a “sector”

7. LESSONS Integrated water resource management (IWRM) is a social and technical accepted process, with current important achievements and goals, and with key challenges ahead. The shortest way society can take to build resilience is to strength and improve IWRM, rather than promote an adaptation process by itself. IWRM must focus all their capabilities to ensure, under different scenarios, a sustainable water extraction, in which ecosystems are recognized as the water provider, rather than a water user.

8. FORWARD LOOKING CONAGUA…. National E-flow Standard Regional Dialogue