Environmental Protection and Sustainable Integrated Management of the Guarani Aquifer

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Environmental Protection and Sustainable Integrated Management of the Guarani Aquifer

GEF ID	974
Project Website URL	http://www.sg-guarani.org/
Region	Americas
Sub-Region	Southern America
Project Contacts	Gabriel Menini, C Information Officer Luiz Amore General Secretary Environmental Protection and Sustainable Integrated Management of the Guarani Aquifer Karin Kemper Senior Water Resources Specialist International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (WB) Douglas Olson International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (WB) Jorge Rucks Chief, Geographic Group II (Latin America), Unit for Sustainable Development and Environment in America Organization of American States (OAS) Diego Lupinacci IT Manager GEF Guarani Aquifer System Project Daniel García Technical coordinator Guarani Roberto Montes communication coordinator Guarani Luis Reolon Gerente de Administración Government of Argentina (GOA) Secretariat of Natural Resources and Sustainable Development (SRNyDS) Abel Mejia Sector Manager International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (WB)
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General Information:
Project Type	Full Size Project
Project Status	Under Implementation
Start Date	2002/06/13

GEF characteristic:
Operational Programme	OP8 - Water based Program
Focal Area	International Waters
GEF Project Stage	CEO Endorsed
GEF Allocation to project	13.94M US$
Total Cost of the project:	27.24M US$

Partners:
Countries:	Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay
Lead Implementing Agency	World Bank
Executing Agencies	OAS; Unit for Sustainable Development and Environment (OAS/USDE)

Project Description:

The main objective of the proposed initiative would be to support Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay in jointly elaborating and implementing a common institutional framework for managing and preserving the Guarani Aquifer for current and future generations. The Guarani Aquifer, named in honor of the Guarani Indian Nation, is one of the largest groundwater reservoirs in the world, and was only recently recognized as one interconnected system, extending through the four MERCOSUR countries for a total of 1.2 million km2. Total reserves would be enough to supply the entire population of Brazil for 3,500 years.The project would be of a preventive nature and would include interventions regerding expansion and consolidation of the current knowledge base, creation of collaborative management framework, information for public participation, and monitoring and evaluation. Given the susceptibility of groundwater resources to pollution and the quasi irreversibility of polluted groundwater sources, a management mechanism that would prevent pollution would yield socio-economic and environemental benefits, both at a local and regional transboundary scale.

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