Glossary
Regional actors:
The Agence de l’eau Seine Normandie coordinates for development of all water bodies, potable water and sanitation. The agency envisions the preparation and adoption of a Schéma Directeur d'Aménagement pour la Gestion de l'Eau (SDAGE). The agency is one of six in France, covering the départements of Seine, Yvelines, Essonne, Hauts-de-Seine and Val-de-Marne as well as other départements in the Parisian region and in Normandy. http://www.eau-seine-normandie.fr/
The Conseil Régional d’Ile de France : The decentralisation law of 1982 created the Région, a collective territory of départements grouped according to their economic and cultural interest. Ninety-six départements are represented by 22 régions, with the Ile-de-France among them. The Conseil Régional is composed of a regional assembly, a cabinet and services as well as the regional administration organized in different directions and services. One direction concerns the environment, which supervises projects such the Bièvre’s restoration. http://www.iledefrance.fr/
The Institut d’Aménagement et d’Urbanisme de la Région Ile-de-France (IAURIF): a public agency managing the entire Parisian agglomeration. It has an environmental scope, as it aims to promote sensible and sustainable urban growth within the region. La Vallée de la Bièvre, 2002, and Restauration et Aménagement de la Bièvre in Paris, 2003 www.iaurif.org
Local actors:
The mission of the Société Anonyme de Gestion des Eaux de Paris (SAGEP) is to produce and transport the potable water consumed daily by Parisians. www.sagep.fr/
The Atelier Parisian d’Urbanisme (APUR) was created in 1967 by the Paris Council. Its mission is to follow urban evolutions, to participate in the definition of development and its politics, the elaboration of urban politics and urbanism documents, as well as in the preparation of projects at the Paris scale. www.apur.org
The Communauté Agglomeration de Val de Bièvre (Val de Bièvre) regroups the communes of Arcueil Cachan, Fresnes, Gentilly, L'Haÿ-les-Roses, Le Kremelin-Bicêtre, and Villejuif. www.agglo-valdebievre.fr
The Syndicat d'Agglomération Nouvelle (SAN) regroups the communes of Elancourt, Guyancourt, La Verrière, Magny-les-Hameaux, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, Trappes, and Voisins-le-Bretonneux. http://www.san-sqy.fr/san/fo/fr/home/home.asp
Syndicat intercommunal d'assainissement de la vallée de la Bièvre (SIAVB) was created in 1945 in response to resident concerns over the quality of the natural environment in the Bievre Valley and its vulnerability to Paris’s outward expansion. As a public agency monitoring nearly 20 kilometers of the Bièvre, it is involved in numerous projects concerning sanitation, recreation, and restoration along the stream. http://www.siavb.fr/
Syndicat intercommunal pour l'assainissement de l'agglomération parisienne (SIAAP) was officially created in 1970 by the city of Paris, a public agency supervising the city’s hydraulic and sewer system exists since the mid-nineteenth century. In 1970 SIAAP became the owner and manager of this entire system, which concerns Paris proper as well as portions of the surrounding départements. http://www.siaap.fr/
Syndicat mixte de la Bièvre: Created in 1999, this syndicate targets the Bièvre watershed, described as uniting all tributaries and all spaces whose slope converges with the Bièvre’s stream bed. It includes all actors, both passive and active, and exists to favor concertation and planning. One objective is to create a regional planning and development plan for water to orient development in the future. http://www.bievre.org/syndicatmixte/index.htm