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There is a growing concern among the international community that a pending water crisis is threatening the entire global population, not only those living in arid to semi-arid areas. This Report, the...

There is a growing concern among the international community that a pending water crisis is threatening the entire global population, not only those living in arid to semi-arid areas. This Report, the...

This report focuses on national and regional capacities for the management of shared water resources in ESCWA member countries. Specific attention is paid to the legal frameworks for shared water...

The Arab Ministerial Water Council (AMWC) took the initiative to establish a regional monitoring mechanism for water and sanitation services that builds upon indicators globally monitored under the...

This report offers an analytical framework and a series of case studies for understanding the water-energy-food security nexus in the Arab region. The analytical framework considers the interlinkages...

The present study addresses the gap in understanding socio-economic drought in the ESCWA region. It aims to raise awareness of the importance of developing drought detection, preparedness and...

This publication contains documents relating to the MAP CAMP Malta project, the first exercise in integrated coastal area management within the Maltese Islands. Volume I contains the Final Integrated...

This document presents guidelines for the application of best available techniques, best environmental practices and cleaner production in general in the major industrial sources of BOD, nutrients and...

The aim of these guidelines is, starting from the characteristics of the Mediterranean Action Plan countries agricultural systems and the environmental problems related to the use of fertilizers in...

The main objective of this study is to formulate a regional plan for the reduction of 50 percent of BOD generated by the Mediterranean coastal industrial activities by the year 2010. This plan is...

The main goal of this regional plan is the reduction by 20 percent by 2010 of the generation of hazardous waste from industrial installations in the Mediterranean Action Plan countries. In order to...

The aim of these guidelines is to provide a methodology of regional scope to facilitate the identification and application of best available techniques, best environmental practices and cleaner...

This document concerns the proposed targets for generation and disposal of hazardous waste under the strategic action programme elaborated and adopted to facilitate the implementation by the...

These guidelines deal with waste in a maritime environment, which can arise from discharges scattered directly to the sea or far from shore and transported by rains, wind and streams up to the sea...

These proposed guidelines are intended to help countries in the Mediterranean region to establish environmental inspection systems or to review existing ones. In this respect, the guidelines are...

The purpose of this handbook is to raise the level of performance of the environmental inspectors and support the guidelines established under the LBS Protocol by providing details on assessing...

This document, which includes guidelines for the monitoring of rivers’ pollution, constitutes an element for a constructive convergence of exchanged prospects between the countries of the...

This document deals with the overall management of the wastewater sanitation system, and particularly with the problem of wastewater treatment and disposal. It has been developed as a basis for a...