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Updated CEP Technical Report No. 33 Land-Based Sources and Activities in The Wider Caribbean Region
This updated report is grouped into six chapters and provides an update on the domestic and industrial pollutant loads discharged in WCR, sanitation coverage expansion and treatment, as well as the pollutant loading from watersheds inflows according to the available information in the WCR countries....Documents
Use of CMA2 Dynamic Online Map Inside the SOMEE Portal
This page has been set-up to demonstrate connecting the Caribbean Marine Atlas 2 (CMA2) and the State of the Marine Environment and Associated Economies (SOMEE) report portal. More specifically, this site demonstrates an example of a contextualized page on a mock SOMEE portal webpage that incorpor...Pages
Valuing The Cost and Benefits of Improved Wastewater Management: An Economic Valuation Resource Guide for the Wider Caribbean Region
Wastewater management in the Wider Caribbean Region is a major challenge – the lack of resources and infrastructure to properly treat wastewater has led to water pollution resulting in negative impacts to important coastal and freshwater ecosystems and to human health. Across the region, 80% of ...Documents
Wasterwater – Shifting Paradigms: From Waste to Resource
Innovation, Significant Financial Investments, and Paradigm Shifts Are Necessary to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goal for Water in the Latin America and Caribbean Region...Documents
Wastewater Management A UN-Water Analytical Brief
The report is structured into eight sections. The first two sections provide the context of the report and look, briefly, at why poor wastewater management is a problem. Section 3 builds on the Introduction and sets out the current situation – in terms of water quality issues and considers the ma...Documents
Wastewater Reuse in the Eastern Caribbean: a Case Study
Wastewater reuse is now widely recognized as an important source of water supply in water-scarce countries and a solution to environmental problems associated with untreated wastewater discharge. In the Eastern Caribbean, competition for potable water between tourism and local domestic needs has see...Documents
Wastewater The Untapped Resource – The United Nations World Water Development Report 2017
The 2017 edition of the United Nations World Water Development Report (WWDR) explores the issue of wastewater and its potential as a sustainable resource.Wastewater is not merely a water management issue – it affects the environment and all livingbeings, and can have direct impacts on economie...Documents
WasteWater: From Waste to Resource
Worldwide, the majority of wastewater is neither collected nor treated. Wastewater is a valuable resource, but it is often seen as a burden to be disposed of. This perception needs to change....Documents
