Federal Act
on the Protection of Waters
(Waters Protection Act, WPA)

¹The Con­fed­er­a­tion and the can­tons shall ex­am­ine the ef­fects of the meas­ures taken un­der this Act and shall keep the pub­lic in­formed about wa­ters pro­tec­tion and the con­di­tion of wa­ters; in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

they shall pub­lish stud­ies on the suc­cess of meas­ures un­der this Act;

b.

they may, provided it is of gen­er­al in­terest and hav­ing con­sul­ted those con­cerned, pub­lish the res­ults of stud­ies and in­spec­tions re­lat­ing to private and pub­lic wa­ters (Art. 52).

² Over­rid­ing private and pub­lic in­terests in con­fid­en­ti­al­ity and man­u­fac­tur­ing and busi­ness secrecy are re­served in every case.

³ The wa­ters pro­tec­tion agen­cies shall provide ad­vice to the au­thor­it­ies and to private in­di­vidu­als. The agen­cies shall re­com­mend meas­ures for the pre­ven­tion or re­duc­tion of det­ri­ment­al ef­fects on wa­ters.