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Water Resources Management Project II - IWRM in the Lerma-Chapala-Santiago River Basin

GEF ID 2540
Region Americas
Sub-Region Central America
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  General Information:
Project Type Full Size Project
Project Status PDFB
 
GEF characteristic:
Focal Area International Waters
GEF Allocation to project 9.00M US$
Total Cost of the project: 99.00M US$
 
  Partners:
Countries: Mexico
Lead Implementing Agency World Bank
Executing Agencies Mexico National Water Commission (CNA)
Project Description:

The proposed GEF-project addresses an important missing link in efforts to improve integrated water resources management in the Lerma-Chapala-Santiago Basin and adds improvements in water resources at the downstream coast as part of the project. Other GEF and Mexican initiatives are addressing different aspects of water resources management but have yet to achieve much success because of lack of an integrated approach. Consistent with Par. 10.5 for GEF Operational Programme 10, the project would play a catalytic role in demonstrating ways to overcome barriers to the adoption of best practices limiting contamination of international waters as part of the GPA Basin Demo Component of OP 10. The general approach taken would be to develop an integrated water resources management framework and a top-down and bottom-up approach with participation of water users and other stakeholders, to deal with water scarcity, groundwater mining, and water pollution. The proposed project would significantly enhance and co-finance the PROMMA II lending operation by bringing international best practices to integrated water and environment management in the Lerma-Chapala-Santiago Basin. Improving water resources management and reducing pollution into the ocean is best done within an integrated water resources management framework. Although government policy calls for an integrated framework, inter-jurisdictional and inter-administrative cooperation often proves difficult in practice, and the GEF grant would provide an incentive to break through institutional barriers and provide a powerful demonstration effect. The objectives are to improve conditions for sustainable IWRM in the basin through integrated planning and actions and to detain the decline in both quality and quantity of water resources in the basin and where the basin enters coastal waters.