WP1: Water governance & mainstreaming

Provide ad hoc support and advice for the review of water policies, national water strategies and IWRM plans

• Provision of technical assistance to  Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco for identifying and advancing missing priority elements of their Wastewater Strategy through the preparation of a gap analysis and recommendations report and a National consultation to validate the findings of the assessment:
  • Egypt
    • Assessment
      
    • National Consultation
  • Morocco
    • Assessment (This is the executive summary in English of the full version of the document available in French)
    • National Consultation
  • Tunisia
    
    • Assessment (This is the executive summary in English of the full version of the document available in French)
    • National Consultation

• Workshop to brief Partner Countries and regional stakeholders on SWIM‐SM objectives in the wider spectrum of the non‐conventional water resources management agenda and to brainstorm and discuss the project’s regional priorities on wastewater treatment and reuse and desalination.

• Study on the legislative framework regulating the recharge of aquifers with adequately treated wastewater

Desalination as a non-conventional water resource

• Assessment of Potential Cumulative Environmental Impacts of Desalination Plants around the Mediterranean Sea
• Regional Expert Group Meeting on Potential Cumulative Environmental Impacts of Desalination Plants on the Mediterranean Sea
• First Core Desalination Group Meeting

WP 2: Capacity building activities

Develop national and regional capacity building programmes / training sessions

• Study tour on wastewater management and natural treatment systems in rural areas

• Training and Study Tour in Europe on the Operation and Management of Wastewater Treatment Plants
  

Support the involvement of officials in an online course on natural systems to improve their understanding and build their capacity on the design, construction, operation and maintenance of natural treatment systems, including physical and biochemical processes, design, operation and maintenance.

• Intensive course on desalination with solar energy

• Sub-regional  trainings in Israel and Tunisia on innovative and adaptable technologies for treated wastewater reuse, including the recharge of aquifers and sustainable desalination

WP 3: Application of Water Management Plans 

Assessment on the best available technologies and technical and economic potentials related to wastewater reuse, aquifer recharge and sustainable desalination at regional level and their application at national level

Under this activity three assessments were prepared respectively on:

• Best Available Technologies (BAT) for Wastewater Treatment & Reuse in Rural/Local Areas in South Mediterranean Countries

• Best Available Technologies (BAT) for Desalination in Rural/Local Areas
• Review and Analysis of Private Sector Participation (PSP): Modalities in Water Service Delivery, with emphasis on the Southern Mediterranean Region

WP 4: Identification and promotion of good practices and success stories

Verification and Validation of Adequacy & Efficiency of Operation of Wastewater Treatment Plants Projects in:

• Lebanon
• Morocco (This is the Executive Summary in English. The full version of the document is available in French)
• Tunisia (This is the Executive Summary in English. The full version of the document is available in French)

• Documentation of Best Practices in wastewater reuse in Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Morocco

WP 5: Development of a Communication and Awareness Raising Strategy

Draw up a package of communication and awareness raising activities targeting relevant decision makers, stakeholders and the general public (including awareness on the draft Strategy for Water in the Mediterranean and the selected demonstration projects)

Consultation meetings with responsible for extension services to farmers and/or administrations / cooperatives related to farmers activities to identify the type of messages, materials and activities that could form the awareness raising and communication campaign addressing this target group (in 4 PCs).

• Brochure for Tunisian and Algerian farmers on the least environmentally and human health damaging practices for re-using treated wastewater in agriculture:
  • Brochure-Tunisia (Arabic)

    • Outside

    • Inside

  • Brochure Algeria (Arabic and French)
    • Brochure (Arabic)
      • Outside
      • Inside

• • • Brochure (French)
      • Outside
      • Inside

• Manual for Algerian trainers and technicians dealing with farmers on the re-use of treated wastewater in agriculture (Arabic and French)

Information workshops targeting Tunisian and Algerian farmers and trainers/technicians about health safety and practices related to the use of treated wastewater in agriculture.