Beirut, 10 December 2015. As part of the Final Event of the Project ACCBAT held in Beirut on 10 December, an agreement on the promotion of a Irrigation Water Quality Index developed within the ACCBAT project, coordinated by ICU, was signed by the Minister of Agriculture of Lebanon. After the conference held in the morning at the Riviera Hotel in Beirut, the doors of the Ministry of Agriculture in Beirut opens to ACCBAT project team for the signing ceremony attended by Minister of Agriculture of Lebanon.
The Minister received the delegation with representatives of ICU in Lebanon, Jordan and Tunisia, the representative of the Region of Sardinia – Managing Authority of the EU funded programme ENPI CBC Med financing the project, and representatives of the three partners of the southern Mediterranean to present Beirut: Lebanese Minister of Agriculture, NCARE – National Centre for Agricultural Research and Extension, Dr. Fawzi Al-Sheyab and the Director at DG-GREE the Tunisian Ministry of Agriculture, Dr. Najet Gharbi.
The agreement signed promotes cooperation between the three partners of the project on the promotion and use of a Irrigation Water Quality Index for treated waste-waters developed by the project in collaboration with the University of Padua and all the project partners.
The Index is a tool created to guide the use of treated wastewater in agriculture in Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia in relation to their quality taking into account the technical requirements and national and international recommendations necessary at the agronomic, health and management level.
With this agreement, the partners:
“DESIRING to increase water resources availability in agriculture through re-use of urban treated wastewater as good practice in our countries subject to water scarcity events and as mitigation measures to the impacts of global climate change;
HAVE DECIDED to encourage the promotion of IWQI developed by the ACCBAT project as a useful instrument in our national best agricultural practices to help farmers, extension agents and all stakeholders in evaluating TWW conditions for their efficient use in irrigation.”
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