Managing Water Scarcity in the Mekong Region – Coordination and Development of a Regional Publication
Between 2020 and 2025, UN FAO initiated the Water Scarcity Program. The Water Scarcity Program (WSP) aimed to bring agricultural water use within sustainable limits and prepare the sector for a productive future with less water. In 2020, AMPERES undertook a rapid water scarcity country profile for Vietnam, Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Fiji as part of the FAO Water Scarcity Program (WSP). This assignment was expanded to an additional 5 countries (including Cambodia, Thailand, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Australia) with Australian support using the established methodology.
Under the project “Managing Water Scarcity in the Mekong Region – Coordination and Development of a Regional Publication”, AMPERES supported FAO in providing guidance on the application of the established methodology for developing water scarcity profiles in five new countries (Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Australia); and then consolidated the 10 water scarcity profiles into a regional publication on the status of water scarcity and its management in the Asia-Pacific. The process and outputs supported FAO’s preparation and development of a regional WSP; and strengthened emerging FAO-Australia partnerships to assist with the management of scarcity in the Asia-Pacific region.
Activities undertaken by the AMPERES team include:
Supporting the drafting of the water scarcity country profile of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Australia by providing guidance and materials from the previous project to the in-charge team.
Reviewing and ensuring consistency across all consolidated 10 countries profiles.
Defining water scarcity and its indicators and undertaking geospatial analysis of water scarcity across the whole Asia-Pacific.
Producing the final regional publication.