Support for project for integrated management of the water resources of the Santa River basin in Peru.

  • he technical cooperation will permit Inrena to design participative consensus solutions to meet multiple current and future demand for water resources equitably.

October 21, 2008

(Lima, October 2008).- The Andean Development Corporation granted non-reimbursable funds to the National Institute of Natural Resources (Inrena) to partially finance preparation of the project at pre-feasibility level for the "Integrated Management of the Water Resources of the Santa River Basin."

Preparation of the project will result in the participative design of consensus solutions to meet multiple current and future demand for water resources in an equitable way, especially in relation to demands for priority attention or periods of shortage; recovery of the quality of water resources and reduction of the pollution caused by dumping untreated domestic sewage and mining tailings.

Based on the diagnosis, a proposal will be prepared for the integrated management of the water resources of the Santa River basin.

A program to develop capacities and "water culture" will be designed and development plans prepared for the sectors, as well as measuring water resource needs.

The supplementary actions are: local and central workshops for presentation of strategies for the integrated management of water resources, and three workshops to validate the pre-feasibility study. The workshops will be held in Chimbote, Huaraz and Trujillo with the participation of the leading public and private actors in the water management of the basin.

CAF director in Peru Eleonora Silva Pardo said that execution of the study would provide Peru with timely help for starting the integrated management of basins resulting in optimal management of the water resources in the Santa River Basin.

INRENA is the public authority responsible for executing and promoting the actions needed for the sustainable exploitation of renewable natural resources, conservation of biological diversity, and sustainable management of the rural environment, by means of integrated land management based on basins, and strategic alliances with the set of social and economic factors involved.

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