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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
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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
Water consumption
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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The training has been jointly organised by UNEP’s Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities (GPA), the Institute for Water Education of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO-IHE), the Institute of Applied Science of the University of the South Pacific (IAS-USP), Secretariat for the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and SOPAC. Successful deliveries of the course “Improving Municipal Wastewater Management in Coastal Cities have been carried out in many parts of the world.

Using the United Nations Division of Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (UN/DOALOS) Train-Sea-Coast standards as well as the GPA Strategic Action Plan on Municipal Wastewater Management, the training provides participants with analytical tools, substantive information and skills on how to select plan and finance appropriate and environmentally sound municipal wastewater management systems.

The training is divided into 3 modules: objective oriented planning, conventional and innovative approaches to municipal wastewater management and presentation skills. The course comprised 5 days of specific training on wastewater management with a sixth consecutive day committed to ‘training of trainers’. The funding provided through GPA by the governments of the United States, Belgium and the Netherlands is gratefully acknowledged, without which this course would not have been possible.

Wastewater Technologies and Management for Pacific Islands

Background and Content

This CD-ROM is a collaborative effort of the UNESCO-IHE and UNEP/GPA training partnership, in short ‘TSC-GPA’, jointly with the Secretariat of the Pacific Environment Programme (SPREP), the Institute of Applied Science, University of the South Pacific (IAS-USP) and the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC).

TSC-GPA is a Course Development Unit of the UN/DOALOS Train Sea Coast Programme; an UNDP-GEF funded capacity building initiative with global mandate. TSC-GPA offers management training for decision makers and practitioners at the municipal level to improve capacity to reduce the discharge of untreated wastewater and increase the number of people with access to sanitation http://www.training.gpa.unep.org.

A regional training needs analysis conducted by SOPAC revealed a need for an adaptation of the TSC material to the specific needs of the region with its distinct physical and population distribution.

To cater for this need, and with the aim to reach more experts in the many islands, this CD-ROM has been compiled to supplement existing training materials. It contains:

* a compendium of technologies appropriate for Pacific Islands;

* a tutorial in Project Cycle Management to identify feasible solutions;

* three software tools to support decision making; and

* a document library with 100 publications on management and technologies

We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Office of Ocean Affairs in the United States Department of State to the funding of this CD-ROM and jointly with the Government of the Netherlands, to the training of experts in the Pacific region facilitated by UNEP, UNESCO, SPREP, USP and SOPAC.

For more information contact:



Robert Bechtloff

[email protected]

Programme Officer (GPA)





Rodney Lui

[email protected]

Wastewater Assistant



Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Officer



SOPAC Pacific Islands Applied Geosciences Commission