The Global Environment Facility-Integrating
Watershed and Coastal Areas Management (GEF-IWCAM) Project has
received an award for its work on point and non-point sources of
pollution in the marine environment. The Project won the Ronald
Williams (notable Engineer) Award for Technical Excellence which is
the result of collaboration between Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica.
Both countries won the award for a paper they presented at the 18th
Annual Caribbean Water and Wastewater Association Conference and
Exhibition, which was held, in St. Thomas, US Virgin Island (USVI),
recently. The paper is entitled “Community approach in addressing
point and non-point sources of marine pollution: Experiences in
Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica”.
The GEF-IWCAM Project is implemented by the
National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) in Jamaica and the
Buccoo Reef Trust in Trinidad and Tobago. The Jamaican arm of the
Project focused on sustainable environmental practices in the
Drivers River Watershed and the development of a watershed
management model for Eastern Portland.
The successful model will be implemented later
throughout the other twenty-five Watershed Management Units in
Jamaica, as well as the other eleven participating countries in the
Caribbean.
