It was established on the 29th July 2008; the coordination agency is the Province of Venice, whose president, Francesca Zaccariotto, is also president of the AATO.
The Authority plans and controls, according to National Law n. 36 of the year 1994 (“Galli Law”), the Integrated Water System (I.W.S.) of a catchment basin including 25 municipalities (also Venice) within two Provinces of Veneto Region: Venice and Treviso.
The AATO’s territorial jurisdiction covers an area of 1.266 square kilometres, where about 650.000 people live and where four Water Service Companies currently work.
The lowest common denominator
of the AATO’s territorial jurisdiction is the receiving body of all the discharges: the Lagoon of Venice.
The planning of the water services and resources is based on the Water Master Plan, whose main targets are an efficient, effective, cheap management of the resource, the protection and the environmental safeguard of the land, together with solidarity and social participation.
The Political Bodies of the Authority are the Ambit Assembly, the Institutional Committee and the President.
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