ACTO will facilitate the articulation between the countries to obtain compatible information on the entire basin and thus inform decision making for IWRM and the conservation of aquatic ecosystems, through the Amazon Basin Project, under its execution.

ACTO, which has the Amazon Regional Observatory (ORA), presented the Situation Room to the participants of the Workshop. Thus, the countries could directly observe the progress and functions of the Regional Water Quality Monitoring Network and the Amazon Hydrological Network, which are part of the integrated monitoring, information and environmental conservation systems on which the Amazon Basin Project is focused to carry out the tasks of its Component 3, which is to monitor not only the water resources but also the ecosystems fed by the waters, through a regional environmental monitoring system.

Other integrated systems were presented at the workshop, such as the integrated satellite system for erosion, transport and sedimentation, one of the most difficult monitoring processes to carry out given the size of the Basin.

For this reason, being able to incorporate satellite data from the experience of the Member Countries and their national allies to establish national and regional monitoring systems and strengthen the Amazon Regional Observatory (ORA) through early warning instruments will be crucial in the region to warn of risk situations, threats and vulnerability of the population and the ecosystem, thus contributing to timely decision making, especially in this period of climate change, which is the other front of work of the Amazon Basin Project.

On the other hand, there are global indicators such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed in 2015, those of the Global Water Action Platform created by UN-Water to support the implementation of the SDGs on water and the Indicators of the Transboundary Waters Assessment Programme of the Transboundary Waters Assessment Programme, (TWAP) which monitors 286 transboundary basins in the world, from its open platform sharing good practices and information. Similarly, GEMS/Water, a program created by WHO and UNEP, monitors water quality, among other indicators, identifying problems and solutions for the integrated and sustainable management of water resources.

In this context, ACTO, through the Amazon Basin Project, seeks to establish its own indicators and common protocols for hydrological, water quality and erosion, sedimentation and sedimentation transport (STT) monitoring, as well as the exchange of compatible and standardized data for the Amazon Basin, so that they can be shared and disseminated in TWAP and GEMS/Water.

As a result of the Workshop, ACTO will seek, through the Project, to manage the strengthening of national capacities with UNEP, WMO, IHP and IRD for the integrated monitoring of water resources in the Amazon Basin.

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