Water Programme for Environmental Sustainability: Towards adaptation measures to human and climate impact
The Water Programme for Environmental Sustainability (WPA II) is an extrabudgetary IHP programme funded by the Italian Ministry for Environment, Land and Sea now entered in its second phase. The Programme is centered on the enhancement of integrated groundwater resources management and protection as a remediation to the various climate change effects. It also sets up best practices in response to climate variability and change impacts on water resources. Operating in Serbia, North Africa, Vietnam and China on aquifers vulnerability, the WPA II focuses specifically on Environmental Sustainability through adaptation measures to remediate human and climate impacts on groundwater resources, with the aim to analyse the links and synergies between the Kyoto mechanisms and groundwater hydrology. A further aim is to provide suitable methodologies to evaluate the environmental and economic benefits of groundwater protection.

UNESCO Sector: Division of Water Sciences
Responsible Staff: Francesso Rizzo, Alice Aureli
More information: f.rizzo@unesco.org