Appropriate Technology for Sewage Pollution Control in the Wider Caribbean Region	Report Contents Report in Word Format
	Caribbean Environment Programme Technical Report #43 1998	All CEP Technical Reports

FOREWORD

The enhancement of awareness and the development of the capabilities of managers and decision makers at a regional and national level are among the program priorities of UNEP’s International Environmental Technology Centre (IETC) and the Regional Coordinating Unit of the Caribbean Environment Programme (CAR/RCU). In particular, knowledge of the issues in adoption, application and operation of environmentally sound technologies (ESTs) has become essential in planning the sustainable use of natural resources and the reduction of environmental impacts from human activities like waste.

IETC has already undertaken two pilot workshops on Adopting, Applying and Operating Environmentally Sound Technologies in different parts of the world. The first one was held in September 1996 in Dresden, Germany and focussed on Urban and Freshwater Resources. The second was in December 1997 at Murdoch University in Australia and focussed on Urban Management.

The Workshop for the Wider Caribbean Region, held in Montego Bay, Jamaica, November 1998, has its origins in the Dresden Workshop, where participants from the Caribbean and the Atlantic Region elaborated proposals for regional follow-up. In the Dresden Workshop, training modules were prepared by Murdoch University encompassing presentations from specialists on industrial and domestic wastewater treatment as well as country representatives. Presentations during the workshops addressed different key issues such as information systems and databases related to ESTs, alternative technological approaches to treatment, technological solutions and innovations and the identification of future actions by the countries.

The Montego Bay Workshop gathered national experts from 20 Technical Focal Points in the Wider Caribbean Region plus a number of experts on wastewater treatment, private enterprises, members of the US Peace Corps, and representatives from various international agencies such as the US Agency for International Development, European Union, Caribbean Environmental Health Institute and German Technical Cooperation (GTZ). Also, as part of IETC’s and CEP’s support to the Program for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) a government official from the island of Cape Verde in the Atlantic was invited to participate and share experiences with experts from the region.

The Workshop provided experts from Governments in the Region with the basic concepts related to Adopting, Applying and Operating Environmentally Sound Technologies (ESTs). This background in ESTs was supplemented with information on the latest technological alternatives for the treatment of industrial and domestic wastewater. The IETC and UNEP-CAR/RCU believe that the Workshop has provided a sound basis for ESTs to be considered in the planning process when governments are identifying and selecting technologies to suit their specific needs.

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