National integrated water resource management diagnostic report : Vanuatu - Sustainable Integrated Water Resources and Wastewater Management in Pacific Island Countries - Vol.1|Integrated water resource management : Diagnostic report Vol.2 - Appendices

Abstract

These goals are a big challenge to small Pacific Islands Countries with their small land masses, remote locations and small but rapidly growing populations making them vulnerable. Vanuatu shares these and other challenges to sustainable development. In Vanuatu real GDP per capita is still lower than in the 1980s, infrastructure is poorly developed, the population is rapidly growing at 2.6% per year, water resources are declining and in many places contaminated, and household water supplies are inadequate or absent. The country's capital and human resources are stretched and a better forward is needed.