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The greatest risk Suriname faces is the flooding of the rivers. The population is concentrated around major rivers like the Suriname, Commewijne, and Marowijne River in an area a few meters above sea level. [16] In 2006 and 2015, there were majors floods even resulting in deaths. [17] [18]
An additional strategy to water conservation is practicing sustainable methods of utilizing groundwater resources. [8] Groundwater flows due to gravity and eventually discharges into streams. [9] Excess pumping of groundwater leads to a decrease in groundwater levels and if continued it can exhaust the resource. [8]
Use of groundwater, especially for irrigation, may also lower the water tables. Groundwater recharge is an important process for sustainable groundwater management, since the volume-rate abstracted from an aquifer in the long term should be less than or equal to the volume-rate that is recharged.
“It's climate change that brought us the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act to begin with,” Esquivel said. When the law was developed a decade ago, rural communities were dealing with ...
Remedial strategies include: more careful waste management, statutory control of overfishing by adoption of sustainable fishing practices and the use of environmentally sensitive and sustainable aquaculture and fish farming, reduction of fossil fuel emissions and restoration of coastal and other marine habitats. [11]
Rainwater harvesting (RWH) is the process of collecting and storing rainwater rather than letting it run off. Rainwater harvesting systems are increasingly becoming an integral part of the sustainable rainwater management "toolkit" [5] and are widely used in homes, home-scale projects, schools and hospitals for a variety of purposes including watering gardens, livestock, [6] irrigation, home ...
Environmental organisations based in Suriname (3 P) Environmentalism in Suriname (1 C) G. Gardens in Suriname (1 C, 1 P) N. Natural disasters in Suriname (1 P)
Sustainable yield: the maximum quantity of water calculated over long-term conditions in the basin, including any temporary excess that can be withdrawn over a year without an undesirable result; Sustainable groundwater management: the management and use of groundwater that can be maintained without causing an undesirable result.