National Water Quality and Availability Management Program

Results as of the project’s conclusion on May 1 2010: The project established an operational and sustainable national water quality and availability monitoring program; including operational information management and communications systems able to respond to public inquiries as well as those of the Minister of Water and Irrigation. As a result current and accurate water quality data and information are now available to a wide variety of stakeholders via the internet and supply-demand information is now being shared by numerous stakeholders. Water quality status reports are now regularly produced and used by both policy makers and water users for a variety of purposes including identification and mitigation of sources of pollution. Other products of the project include ISO certification of the Environmental Quality Laboratory the only such laboratory in the Middle East to have achieved ISO certification and the development and implementation of drainage water reuse guidelines that have lead to significant improvements in soil and water management.