![]() ![]() In addition, the third task of the Project is to monitor water resources and ecosystems through regional monitoring networks. This is an innovative project that will promote the capacity to adapt to droughts and floods in order to face the effects of climate change, aiming to ensure and sustain water security. Planners, scientists and communities will be united. This perspective includes broad social participation. The Project provides a space to create links for the Basin, and this is also evident in its second task which is: Building community resilience and protection of aquatic ecosystems in the face of climate change. ![]() Through interaction, Amazonian stakeholders will have an opportunity to share the diversity of uses, knowledge and management of water governance and jointly create the model, from the local level, to move towards greater participation and sustainability of water management. This involves social participation, including stakeholders from the various sectors (water, energy, education, among others) of the region, the Project partners, concerned with the situation of the Basin. Join the tasks of the Amazon Basin Projectīuilding a space for dialogue on Transboundary Water Governance in the Amazon countries is the first task to create an innovative governance model for Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in the Amazon Basin. Its population is approximately 48.5 million people, under an accelerated process of urbanization and territorial occupation, with its main economic activities being: extraction of natural, mineral and forest resources, fishing, agriculture, mining and small-scale tourism, which impact the quantity and quality of the Amazon Basin’s water resources. Hence its extraordinary richness, more than 30,000 species of plants, about 3,000 species of fish, 60 species of reptiles, 35 families of mammals, and approximately 1,800 species of birds inhabit the region. ![]() It is characterized by 14 climate types and 21 soil types. Precipitation levels range from 200 mm per year in the Andes to more than 6,000 mm per year in some locations in the Amazon plains. As such, it plays an essential role in global water and carbon cycles, making it an important natural regulator of the world’s climate. It covers more than half of the tropical forest and contains the largest freshwater system on the planet, discharging 15-20% of the world’s liquid freshwater into the Atlantic Ocean. ![]() The Amazon Basin is the most biologically diverse river basin in the world, covering more than 6,118,000 km², or 44% of the land area of South America. through the geography of the eight countries until it reaches the Atlantic Ocean in Brazil. carried by the Amazon River from its source in Peru, during its journey of more than 6,992 km. This new concept complements the approach of coordinating the development and management of water, land and other resources to maximize economic results and social welfare without compromising the environment, making visible the continuous flows of water, flora, fauna, sediments, pollution, biota (living organisms), etc. Project objective: to support the Basin countries in implementing the Strategic Action Program (SAP), promoting Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in the source-to-sea continuum, which makes all the Earth’s ecosystems interconnected. Thus, the Amazon Basin Project-Implementation of the Strategic Action Program in the Amazon River Basin considering Variability and Climate Change was created, providing a space for dialogue, action and social participation, a strategic principle of Water Governance. To address transboundary issues such as water quality, loss of biodiversity and limited water governance, among others, the eight Amazonian countries Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela, which are members of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization, ACTO, designed and agreed the Strategic Action Program (SAP), under three lines of action: first, to strengthen Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) second, to address climate variability and change and finally, to promote knowledge management. Water pollution is one of the nine critical problems in the Amazon. Dialogue and action in the Amazon Basin: for the world’s largest river ![]()
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