Pilot Project: Integrating freshwater data into sector-wide decision making to improve the protection and restoration of freshwater ecosystems, Marapa ? San Francisco River Basin Action Plan

GEORGIEFF, SERGIO M.

2021-12-07/2022-05-20

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Rec.Hidr.-Cuencas superficiales

The pilot project in Argentina is "Integrating freshwater data into sector-wide decision making to improve the protection and restoration of freshwater ecosystems" and is coordinated by FAdA (Argentine Water Forum, GWP Argentina) and Arg Cap-Net (Argentine Network for Training and Strengthening in Integrated Water Resources Management), together with the National Directorate of Environmental Management of Water and Aquatic Ecosystems as Focal Point of SDG 6.6.1 and has the collaboration of the National Directorate of Federal Coordination and Water Policy, as a strategic partner.Ecosystems possess a great capacity to interact with the surrounding environment and to maintain certain conditions stable, allowing them to provide important ecological services andto resist disturbances and climate change (Lovelock, 1993; Altesor et al., 2011; Jobbagy, 2011).The "Formulation of the Action Plan for the Marapa - San Francisco River Basin" is a joint interprovincial work involving the Secretariats of Water and Environment (under the Ministryof Water, Energy and Environment of Catamarca), and the State Secretariat of Environment (under the Ministry of Productive Development of Tucumán). Some 120 people from the national, provincial, academic, scientific, social, productive and environmental NGOs participated in the workshops and agreement meetings held during February and March 2022.The Marapa - San Francisco river basin (almost 7,000 km2 ) is part of the Salí - Dulce river basin.The latter has an extension of more than 92,000 km2, has a special interprovincial Commission (CCIRS-D) and a Basin Master Plan, approved in 2020.In Argentina, the integration of data for decision-making and action plans is a complex issue, due to the fact that the information is scattered, unpublished and access is often conditioned because a considerable volume of data is in paper format (Lucatelli Gómez, 2017).