Sustainable Management of Aquifers in the South Caucasus Region

Project ID	TYPE PROJECT NUMBER HERE
Project Title	Sustainable Management of Aquifers in the South Caucasus Region
Type
Focus Areas
Geographic Scope	South Caucasus; Kura & Aras/Araks Watershed
Lead Organization(s)	UNDP (Environment and Security Initiative; see also http://www.envsec.org)
Project Partners	OSCE, UNESCO International Hydrological Programme
Financing	USD 49,920
Timeframe	01 Oct 2005 - 31 Dec 2006
Status	under implementation
Project website(s)
Contacts	Tim Turner (Project COordinator) Peter Svedberg (Programme Officer, Bratislava)

Description

The wider objective: of the project would to strengthen technical cooperation, contribute to human security of community level resource users, and promote sustainable environmental development through integrated water resource management, including identification and sound management of aquifer resources that are present in the territories of the countries within the region.

The specific project objective: is to identify major national transboundary aquifer systems within the region, assess their resources, and identify and define at least one pilot project for inclusion in the GEF full sized project to demonstrate sound management of a transboundary aquifer for the benefit of the users of the water resource.