World Water Monitoring Day 2019
EUWI+ encourages Armenian youth to protect water resources and launches Facebook challenge in Ukraine
The World Water Monitoring Day aims to build public awareness and to involve the public in the protection of water resources around the world. The transboundary project “European Water Initiative Plus (EUWI+)” has been set up to achieve the same aim in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, by improving the sustainable management of water resources in these countries and its upgraded monitoring. This includes rehabilitation of several laboratories, purchase of quality equipment and technical trainings. On World Water Monitoring Day, there will be actions in Armenia and the Ukraine to highlight the project’s achievements. EUWI+ is a project led by a European project consortium headed by the Environment Agency Austria.
Armenian pupils gain insights into water quality monitoring
In June 2019, about 350 schoolchildren and 30 teachers of secondary schools took part in water quality monitoring training sessions in the basins of Lake Sevan and the Hrazdan River. In practical summer workshops on water quality sampling and monitoring, they tested water samples, using water quality tool kits provided by EUWI+. For World Water Monitoring Day the pupils will present their results at an official event in Sevan on 18th September. In addition, their findings will be included on the EUWI+ Website and on http://www.worldwatermonitoringday.org/.
Facebook challenge “I cleaned – Your Turn 2” in Ukraine
The aim of the Facebook challenge which will run from 16th to 30th September is to support a number of individual clean-up events on river banks around the country. Participants are invited to send photos of before and after cleaning upon the coast of the Black and Azov Sea in a #TrashTag Challenge where people share before/after photos of their clean-up activities. Eco-bags and a motivational cartoon about litter and its impact will be distributed as part of the EMBLAS Plus project, which aims at improving the protection of the Black Sea environment and is funded by the European Union and the United Nations Development Programme.
European Water Initiative Plus: Water resource management in six countries
The aim of the European Union-funded, transboundary project “EU Water Initiative Plus for the Eastern Partnership (EUWI+)” is to improve the sustainable management of water resources in six countries of the European Eastern Neighbourhood Policy. For this purpose, monitoring capacities and management plans for river basins and transboundary rivers in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Belarus and Ukraine have been developed and will be implemented, in order to meet the standards of the EU Water Framework Directive. Experts from European Union member states institutions, together with their partners, are in the process of setting up water monitoring systems which will be applied in model regions. To implement the new tools in the best possible way, training sessions are provided for the institutions in charge, and appropriate administrative management will be developed in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. For the EUWI+ project consortium, French and Austrian experts (mainly from the Environment Agency Austria, the Federal Ministry of Sustainability and Tourism and the International Office for Water in France) are assigned to work in these countries. UNECE and OECD are further EUWI+ partners supporting national policy reforms and institutional strengthening.
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Office International de l'Eau (fr)
