Laguna Lake Development Authority   Sustainable Development of the Laguna de Ba'i Environment (SDLBE)

In view of the competing and conflicting uses, the Laguna Lake Development Authority is more than ever faced with a need for comprehensive Water Resources Management and Development of Laguna de Ba’i.

The lack of understanding of the system functioning, the water resources demand and supply, and the inadequacy of information needed to have a coherent understanding of water resources management and development threaten not only the sustainability of the lake uses, but also the ecological functioning within the Lagna de Ba’i.

Thus, to address these concerns, strategic intervention was initiated through a project: Sustainable Development of the Laguna de Ba’i Environment (SDLBE).  The project, with a term of two years, was funded by the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

The objective of the project was to ensure future sustainable development of Laguna de Ba’i resources, based upon a sound knowledge of the functioning of the system, its users and the institutional setting (i.e. supporting Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM).  The project was therefore especially directed at: 

• capacity building

• developing practical and realistic solutions for current problems and issues regarding the lake and focusing on drinking water supply, need for dredging and infrastructure works..

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