Funded by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Food and Agriculture Organization (#FAO) in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation and Ministry of Water and Environment launched on Monday a #workshop on decentralized-Sustainable Crop production and Integrated water management in Sanaa basin. The workshop inauguration was attended by Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation Farid Mujawar, Minister of Water and Environment Izzi Ali Shuraim , former Minister of Water Abdulsalam Razzaz, Chairman of National Authority of Water Resources Ali Alsuraimi , FAO representative Salah Alhaj Hasan ,#Ambassador of the Netherlands in Yemen Aldrik Gierveld and several representatives from the parliament and Water users associations in #Sanaa and #Tihama basins. The proposed project aims to improve water management in Sana’a Basin in a sustainable way. The project will develop a coherent awareness on the water situation in Sana’a Basin by strengthen the water user/farmers associations (WUAs/FA). Between other, this will reduce groundwater abstraction in this water basin. Without such a kind of interventions, groundwater resources depletion in Sana’a Basin will continue increasing.The #Netherlands helps #Yemen with this important intervention related to establishing of a proper, decentralized integrated sustainable water resource management in Sana Basin.Next year a similar #project will take place in Tihama Basin. The Water Programme of the #Dutch Embassy in #Yemen (2014 – 2017) has been focusing on two main water issues in Yemen: Integrated Sustainable Water Resource Management (ISWRM), and (drink) Water and Sanitation (WASH). In the coming period attention will be paid to water scarcity and effective water management in two selected basins – Sana Basin and Tihama Basin.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 14:00:01 +0000
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