Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in a complex hydrological system such as the Amazon Basin relies heavily on environmental monitoring to protect human health and the environment in general. Monitoring programs are also essential to provide the information needed for planning, decision making, and operational water management at local, national, and transboundary scales.
To provide fundamental support to IWRM in the region, the Amazon Basin Project envisages the conceptualization, consolidation and operation of a series of interrelated, compatible, operational and consensual systems that will monitor groundwater, glaciers and vulnerable ecosystems throughout the Amazon Basin. Monitoring actions to strengthen IWRM within the framework of the Amazon Basin Project also include an erosion and sediment transport program and training in the management and operation of monitoring systems.
The monitoring data will make up the Integrated Water Resources Monitoring System and will be available in the Amazon Regional Observatory (ORA) of ACTO through the Integrated Regional Information Platform on IWRM in the Amazon BasinThe data will be made available to public and private institutions and to the general public.
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