Reducing Vulnerability of Arid Oasian Zones to climate change and variability through Improved Watershed Management

The long-term goal of the project is to improve water management in light of climate change impacts in order to improve ecological functioning and human well being. The project objective has two foci: to address urgent issues through improved environmental management and, secondly, to show how climate change information and improved data on water can be used to enhance resource management and decision making at several levels, including technical, policy, and community level demand side management. Both of these aspects will be replicable in other oasian environments, which are particularly fragile ecosystems. This is key to the country’s development as the country is perennially water deficient and mismanagement of water supplies will further hamper its development.