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Map Cook Islands Federated Sates of Micronesia Fiji Kiribati Nauru Niue Papua New Guinea Republic of Marshall Islands Republic of Palau Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu
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Population
Land Area
Climate
Water resource
Water consumption
Country Cook Islands Cook Islands
Population 21,750 (July 2007 est.)
Land Area 236.7 km2
Climate
Water resource
Water consumption
Country Federated Sates of Micronesia Federated Sates of Micronesia
Population 107,862 (July 2007 est.)
Land Area 702 km2
Climate
Water resource Avg Rainfall: 4,928 mm per annum
Water consumption
Country Fiji Fiji
Population 918 675 (July 2007 est.)
Land Area 18,270 km2
Climate
Water resource Avg Rainfall: 2000 - 3000 mm per annum
Water consumption
Country Kiribati Kiribati
Population 107,817 (July 2007 est.)
Land Area 811 km2
Climate
Water resource Avg Rainfall: South of the equator: 1,300 mm Tarawa: 2,000 mm Northernmost islands: over 3,200mm Eastern Line Islands: less than 1,000 mm
Water consumption
Country Nauru Nauru
Population 11,528 (July 2007 est.)
Land Area 21 km2
Climate
Water resource Avg Rainfall: 2,090 mm per annum
Water consumption
Country Niue Niue
Population 1,625m(GoN statistics 2006)
Land Area 260 km2
Climate
Water resource Avg Rainfall: 2,180 mm per annum
Water consumption
Country Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea
Population 5,795,887 (July 2007 est.)
Land Area 462,840 km2
Climate
Water resource Avg Rainfall:1000-80000 mm per annum
Water consumption
Country Republic of Marshall Islands Republic of Marshall Islands
Population 20,842
Land Area 458 km2
Climate
Water resource Avg Rainfall: 3,700 mm per annum
Water consumption
Country Republic of Palau Republic of Palau
Population 61,815(July 2007 est.)
Land Area 11,854.3 km2
Climate
Water resource Avg Rainfall: Southern attols: 4,000mm Northern attols:2,000 mm per annum
Water consumption
Country Samoa Samoa
Population 214,265
Land Area 2,944 km2
Climate
Water resource Avg Rainfall: 3,000 mm per annum
Water consumption
Country Solomon Islands Solomon Islands
Population 566,842
Land Area 28,450 km2
Climate
Water resource Avg Rainfall:1500-5000 mm per annum
Water consumption
Country Tonga Tonga
Population 116,921
Land Area 748 km2
Climate
Water resource Avg Rainfall: Varies from north and south of tonga with an estimated average of 2500 mm per annum
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Country Tuvalu Tuvalu
Population 11.992 (July 2007 est.)
Land Area 26 km2
Climate
Water resource Avg Rainfall: 3000mm per annum
Water consumption
Country Vanuatu Vanuatu
Population 211,971 (July 2007 est.)
Land Area 12,200 km2
Climate
Water resource Avg Rainfall: 2000 - 4000 mm per annum
Water consumption
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Wastewater Training 2009 Fiji and Cook Islands

Wastewater training in 2009

As part of their ongoing efforts to improve and strengthen wastewater management, both Fiji and Cooks Islands held national training courses on wastewater. This saw key in-country stakeholders come together for a 1-week training course to build their capacity on wastewater management.
A total of 44 candidates from Fiji and Cook Islands participated including personnel from in-country Ministry of Health, Water and Sewerage Utilities, Department of Environment, water and sanitation committee members and local NGOs. Additional observers from the Samoa Water Authority and the Vanuatu Department of Water Resources were sponsored to attend the training as well.



Cook Islands participants at the Wastewater Training 2009, New Hope Town Hall- Avarua



The mentioned training course was basically aimed at enabling people with responsibility on wastewater management to identify problems with wastewater management in-country and come up with appropriate solutions through Objective Oriented Planning, with a wide range of stakeholder consultations. This assisted with the capacity building aspect of the participants as well as fostered good working relationship between the various in-country agencies.
The training courses were funded by the UNEP-GPA and implemented through facilitation and organisation by SOPAC and IAS-USP with assistance from in-country stakeholders namely Ministry of Health and Water and Sewerage department in Fiji and National Environment Services and Ministry of Health in Cook Islands. 
The delivery of the training contributes directly to the implementation of the Pacific Wastewater Framework for Action with anticipation that the training plays an integral role in the integration of wastewater and sanitation management into the overarching concept of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) which is currently underway in the Pacific region. 



For course information please contact:



Rodney Lui

Wastewater Assistant