유역별 통합하천관리 실현을 위한 입법적 시론

Abstract

For integrated river management by basin, it is necessary to unify the Department in charge and management bodies. Previously, “river” and “river water” were distinguished, and “river water” was also divided into “river water as a water resource” and “river water as an object of water conservation” and managed by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the Ministry of Environment, respectively. Recently, the Government Organization Act and River Act were revised. As a result, “river water as a water resource” and “river affairs” were transferred to the Ministry of Environment to lay the institutional foundation for integrated management of rivers in name and reality. However, despite the fact that the departments in charge of rivers have been unified into the Ministry of Environment, there is still the problem of changing the management of rivers according to the purpose or function of existing rivers, such as national, regional, and small rivers. In particular, it is necessary to promote efficient basin integrated management by the basin Management Committee by promoting local rivers to national rivers. This does not simply mean the integration of national and local rivers, but is very important in that it establishes the basis for water management integration by basin. In addition, since more than 60% of water use is for agricultural, the management of agricultural water under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs needs to be switched to the Ministry of Environment. The fact that the current agricultural water management is no different from the existing river management, and in principle, in order to secure the control of the Basin Water Management Committee and the efficiency of water management, the department in charge was changed to the Ministry of Environment, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and other related organizations cooperated. There is a need to improve relevant laws. In addition, the management of water for dams by the K-Water and the management of water for hydroelectric dams by Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co., Ltd(KHNP) should be unified in order to secure the efficiency of water management integration in that the essence is management of river water. In other words, the river management task is unified into the basin Management Committee and the Ministry of Environment, but in certain cases, the local government or related organizations such as the K-Water are delegated to handle the tasks, but under the direction of the basin Committee and the Ministry of Environment, the integration of river management can be efficiently integrated. It is necessary to prepare relevant laws to do so. In the sense that ‘basin’, the management unit for each basin, is a basic matter of basin management, the management unit should be ‘basin’, but the boundary and division should be directly defined in the Framework Act on Water Management, including not only large basins but also small and medium basins. there is In addition, as a method of realizing basin management, bottom-up basin management centered on sub-basins (or small rivers) is necessary, so it is necessary to reflect this in future legislation.