Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
SOPAC/EU
Publication Year:
2007
Publication Place
Suva, Fiji
Physical Description:
51 p.
Call Number
[EL]
Collection
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
36274
Legacy PEIN ID:
76281
General Notes
Available online
Available online
Subject Heading(s)
Water policy and planning - Kiribati
Environmental protection - Kiribati
Water governance - KiribatiProtected areas
Protected areas - Oceania
Protected areas - Management
Catchment - Oceania - Pacific
Catchment - Kiribati
Water policy and planning
Policy and planning
Abstract
The European Union has established a Programme for Water Governance (PfWG), for three regions, Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific. A successful Pacific region submission in 2002 by the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC) proposed three pilot studies in Fiji Islands, Kiribati, and the Solomon Islands for water governance at different scales: national, major utility and local village, island or catchment based. Increasing demographic trends, hydrogeology, climatic variation and change, urbanisation and the impacts of human activities all combine to impose significant risks to water resources in small island nations. The challenges faced in the water and sanitation sector in small island states are amongst the most difficult in the world. They require a strategic, coordinated whole-of-government approach, in partnership with island communities, that incorporates the existing expertise and experience throughout the government and community sectors and which represents the hopes and needs of communities for adequate water and sanitation.
Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
SOPAC/EU
Publication Year:
2007
Publication Place
Suva, Fiji
Physical Description:
51 p.
Call Number
[EL]
Collection
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
36274
Legacy PEIN ID:
76281
General Notes
Available online
Record Created: 02-Mar-2010
Record Modified: 23-Feb-2021