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Dialogue and action in the Amazon Basin: for the world’s largest river

Pollution of the Amazon River is one of the nine critical problems in the Amazon. To address transboundary issues such as water quality, loss of biodiversity, among others, the eight Amazonian countries Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela, which make up the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) designed the Strategic Action Program (SAP), under three lines of action, the first to strengthen Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), the second to address climate variability and change, and the third to address knowledge management. Thus, the Amazon Basin Project – Implementation of the Program of Strategic Actions in the Amazon River Basin considering Variability and Climate Change, a space created for dialogue, action and social participation, a strategic principle of Water Governance.

Project objective: to support the Basin countries in implementing the Strategic Actions Program (SAP), promoting Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in the source-to-sea continuum, which makes all the Earth’s ecosystems interconnected. This new concept complements the approach of coordinating the development and management of water, land and other resources to maximize economic results and social welfare without compromising the environment, making visible the continuous flows of water, flora, fauna, sediments, pollution, biota (living organisms), etc. that the Amazon River carries from its origin in Peru, during its journey of more than 6,992 km through the geography of the eight countries until it reaches the Atlantic Ocean in Brazil.

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