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47 Information: Tel.: +33 5 55 11 47 70 - E-mail: cnfme@oieau.fr The News N° 29 Europe - France “EcoCuencas” Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) The “EcoCuencas” project, funded by the European Union’s WATERCLIMA programme and coordinated by the International Office for Water (IOWater), came to an end in Decem- ber 2017 following three years of implemen- tation in three pilot basins in Latin America: l The Rio Chira-Catamayo transboundary basin, shared between Ecuador and Peru. l The Rio Grande II dam basin in Colombia, which serves the town of Medellin. l The Piracicaba, Capivari and Jundiai (PCJ) basins, which supply water to the city of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Following preparation of methodological and summary works developed by the Ecologic Institute and the OECD on economic and financial mechanisms for managing water in a climate change context, the Latin American partners (National Water Secretariat of Ecua- dor, Cuenca Verde Corporation in Colombia, PCJ Agency in Brazil, National Water Author- ity of Perdu) developed innovative pilot mea­ sures. These measures supported implementation of levies and/or payments for environmental ser- vices at various scales (including micro river basin, basin, and national territory levels). The results and methods were consolidat- ed by the nine partners of the project and are presented in a Massive Online Open Course (MOOC), available in Spanish on the IOWater website: www.oieau.org/mooc/eco _ cuencas 4 Eco Cuencas The International Office for Water, with sup- port from the French Agency for Biodiversity, has produced a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) to make it easier to produce Reports on Service Price and Quality (RPQS) via the information system on public water and sani- tation (SISPEA). The RPQS is obligatory for all towns and local authorities responsible for one or more public water supply and/or sanitation services. The NOTRe Act of 7 August 2015 made it mandatory to input indicators from the infor- mation system on public water and sanitation under SISPEA. The Act came into force on 1 January 2016 for local authorities with over 3,500 inhabitants, and for public inter-municipal cooperation establishments (EPCI) with at least one town of over 3,500 inhabitants. The MOOC, comprising 6 modules in the form of videos, aims to help authorities input da- ta from their services, avoid routine errors, publish their RPQS more easily, and manage their services better. Since January 2019, the MOOC has been ac- cessible free of charge on the SISPEA website. www.services.eaufrance.fr 4 Information system on public water and sanitation (SISPEA) A MOOC for public water and sanitation services to improve entry of indicators into the information system TRAINING AT IOWATER