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caused by an extreme situation of drought among the basin actors and progressively adopt a new water culture. Regarding the internal coherence of property rights, some improvements can be identified: the Ebro river basin Plan establishes water needs and uses as well as a minimal ecological flow; some disadjustments between legal aspects and real practices of the CHE and the Central Users Community increases its level of influence regarding decisions on the watering out of the Pena dam and the distribution of water; traditional use rights of some users are respected; and a kind of de facto use rights are given to illegal users of water by the Irrigation Communities of the basin. After the signature of the Water Agreement, the external coherence between public governance and property rights improves to a certain extent. All the main water users have proved to be able to negotiate and reach an agreement based on a common perception of the river as a key element for the future development of the basin. Regime changes have some positive impacts on sustainability. The rejection of constructing large hydraulic infrastructures and the consideration of alternative options with minor environmental, economic and social impacts represent an important “bet” for the sustainability of the basin. These impacts relate to three dimensions of sustainability: natural resources and environment (there is a compromise to take environmental protection into account); economic development (low economic cost of the lateral pools project and promotion of tourism) and social consequences (resolution of territorial conflicts within the basin). In general terms, the positive impacts on sustainability seem to be more related to the increase of internal and external coherence rather than to the increase of extent. When trying to explain changes, three change agents and conditions must be taken into account: an increased problem pressure, which leads to joint problem awareness —river as a vertebrating element of the territory—; the income of cognitive resources by external actors; and, to a less extent, the institutional interfaces constituting the basis for the final agreement. There is no tradition of thinking in terms of integration and there is a traditional low level of trust among river basin actors. 65
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