Web Newswire: The World Bank approved today a US$10 million loan to support the Peruvian Government in its Water Resources Management Modernization project. The loan is aimed at improving the management of water resources in Peru through a participatory, sustainable, multisector and basin-scale approach. For such purpose, the project will work with the national water bureau (Autoridad Nacional del Agua - ANA), the agency in charge of the Peruvian National Water Resource System and its local branches.“We are extremely satisfied with this project,”says engineer Abelardo de la Torre Ugarte, Head of the ANA. “It will help to modernize the management of our water resources by integrating private and public sectors and the civil society in order to achieve the sustainable availability of water in the quantity, timeliness and quality required for present and future generations,” adds de la Torre Ugarte.
The Water Resources Management Modernization project will support the development of participatory plans for an integrated water resource management in the Chancay-Lambayeque, Chili and Ica-Alto Pampas basins.
…Irrigation accounts for 80 percent of water use in Peru. The Peruvian coasts and lower areas of the Pacific basins are subject to flooding due to high rainfall levels in the upper parts of the basins, while the southern areas are more drought prone….
The Rimac River in Peru. The photo was taken in 2002 by Håkan Svensson (Xauxa). Wikimedia Commons, under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
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