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

¹ With­in the lim­its of the ap­proved cred­its, the Con­fed­er­a­tion may grant the can­tons com­pens­at­ory pay­ments for as­cer­tain­ing the causes of in­ad­equate wa­ter qual­ity in an im­port­ant body of wa­ter with a view to re­medi­al meas­ures.⁶⁸

² It may provide fin­an­cial as­sist­ance for the ba­sic and con­tinu­ing edu­ca­tion and train­ing of spe­cial­ists and for the pro­vi­sion of in­form­a­tion to the pub­lic.⁶⁹

³ With­in the lim­its of the ap­proved cred­its, it may provide sup­port for the pre­par­a­tion of can­ton­al in­vent­or­ies of wa­ter sup­ply in­stall­a­tions and ground­wa­ter re­sources by means of com­pens­at­ory pay­ments or through its own work provided:

a.

the in­vent­or­ies are pre­pared ac­cord­ing to fed­er­al guidelines; and

b.

the ap­plic­a­tions are sub­mit­ted be­fore 1 Novem­ber 2010.⁷⁰

⁴ The fed­er­al pay­ments shall not ex­ceed 40 per cent of the costs.⁷¹