Sedimentation is an increasing problem for many water reservoirs, especially at the Southern coast of the Mediterranean. Well-designed water dams offer a good tool for proper water management and also provide measures for adaptation to climate change. The EU [...]
Water scarcity in Jordan is increasingly getting more severe, with annual per capita shares of renewable freshwater resources being less than 60 m3 per capita. This is partly due to the semi-arid climate of Jordan, compounded with high population [...]
Medical waste is one of the most difficult substances to handle. It is considered hazardous because it may possess infection dangers and can cause unsafe effects on the environment and human health. The collection, transportation, treatment and disposal of [...]
The ‘Horizon 2020 initiative’ (2007 - 2020) has been a joint effort to substantially reduce pollution in the Mediterranean by tackling the sources that are said to account for 80% of the overall pollution of the Mediterranean Sea: municipal [...]
In order to improve the productivity of the agricultural sector, WES will support Palestine in the establishment of new approaches concerning irrigation. Bringing in non-conventional water resources for irrigation might be one of the options to optimize irrigation, said [...]
The workplan for the coming 12 months was endorsed on 23 November 2020 during the 2nd WES Steering Committee Meeting (SCM) which was held online. The meeting focused on taking stock of the project’s achievements so far and on [...]
The second WES Steering Committee meeting will now be organised on-line on Monday 23 November 2020. The Steering Committee will bring together the WES Water and Environment Focal Points from the Partner Countries, the European Commission, institutional partners, representatives [...]
In view of the upcoming 2nd UfM Ministerial Meeting on Environment and Climate Action, a Union for the Mediterranean Online Stakeholder Consultation was launched to provide the possibility to an even wider range of relevant actors to consult on the [...]
Water Accounting is a vital tool to achieve integrated water governance and a sustainable water balance. In order to establish proper Water Accounting in all Southern Mediterranean countries, more than 50 participants participated in a two-week regional training on [...]
In 2017, Amendment 27 to the Water Law came into force in Israel. One of the significant changes that this amendment made was the replacement of the regulation of water production of previous production levies, with a full tariff [...]