Review of Kiso River Water Resources Plan Changes
Overview
The 13th Kiso River Subcommittee will review a draft of the next plan as part of a fundamental shift from demand-led planning to risk management planning. The meeting is open to the public, and advance registration is required to attend online. The notice provides the registration deadline, connection arrangements, agenda, and planned publication of materials. It is a meeting notice, not the plan itself.
Key points
- This is a notice about holding a Kiso River Subcommittee meeting to review the draft next plan.
- The matters for review include hard and soft measures and the draft next plan.
- The meeting is open to the public, and instructions are provided for registering to attend online.
Overview
To fundamentally revise the Kiso River System Water Resources Development Basic Plan from a demand-led plan to a risk management plan that addresses risks to water supply, the Kiso River Subcommittee has met three times so far and has conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the current plan, an assessment of the water supply and demand balance for the next plan, and other work.
Based on discussions to date, the 13th Kiso River Subcommittee of the Water Resources Development Subcommittee of the National Land Council will meet on November 10, 2026, to review the draft plan text and other matters.
Impact
The meeting is open to the public, but attendance is online only. Due to network capacity constraints, each person or organization is limited to one connection, and places will be allocated in order of application if there are more applicants than available capacity.
Details
The venue is Meeting Room A, Water and Disaster Management Bureau, 2nd floor, Central Government Building No. 3 (2-1-3 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo). The agenda is: main comments from the 12th Subcommittee meeting; hard and soft measures in the draft next plan; the draft next plan; and other matters.
Those wishing to attend online should email their name (including phonetic spelling), affiliation, telephone number, and email address. Applicants who register by the deadline will receive the attendance URL and meeting materials by the day before the meeting. Press representatives may film in person from the start of the meeting until the subcommittee chair's greeting, but must leave after filming; those wishing to continue observing must join online. The materials and minutes will be posted later on the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism website.