A marine survey for Tuvalu in the waters around all nine atolls and low reef islands, namely, Nanumea, Niutao, Nanumanga, Nui, Vaitupu, Nukufetau, Funafuti, Nukulaelae, Niulakita
Te Kete comes at a time when Tuvalu is living through a shift of paradigm to the ne normal resulting from the Covid19 pandemic. We are looking more inwards into our own potential, optimizing the returns from our atoll endowments and most of all our human resources to provide sustainable livelihoods.
Water pollution, evident by negative values of redox potential in waters, occurs at the lagoonal coast located near the densely populated area of Fongafale Islet. Therefore, this study is one of the many that are urgently needed in order to develop and implement countermeasures to protect these areas against coastal water pollution.
Policy and Action Plan for Waste Management in Tuvalu
Tuvalu’s environment is under pressure: sea-water rise contaminating the soil with salt, direct impact
on waste and sewage systems from rising human density contributing to further damage. The 1987 UN
Brundlandt report has definitely shown the existing link between environment/ecology and
development /economy. Tomorrow’s economy stems from today’s environment. Investing in the
quality of soil, avoiding water pollution, protecting natural resources especially energy sources as well
Under the International Waters Project (IWP) in Tuvalu, a pilot project was established to address
“waste” with the aim of reducing the contamination of groundwater and coastal water by human
and animal waste.
Community-based activities included “low-tech” solutions to addressing environmental
degradation while national level activities involved activities with a more strategic institutional
focus. A Communications and Sanitation Training Programme was designed to investigate the
The Tuvalu Integrated Waste Policy and Action Plan 2017 – 2026 was endorsed by the Government in 2016 as the main national policy framework to guide the management of waste in Tuvalu. It sets down the Long-term Vision of having “A Cleaner and Healthier Tuvalu for today and future generations”
Map of the protected areas for Tuvalu with country-level summary statistics on the amount of area under protection, count for each type of protected area (terrestrial or marine), and the count of their designation.
Australian Government 2008.
The primary aim of these guidelines is to protect the health of humans from threats posed by the recreational use of coastal, estuarine and fresh waters. Threats may include natural hazards such as surf, rip currents and aquatic organisms, and those with an artificial aspect, such as discharges of wastewater. These guidelines should be used to ensure that recreational water environments are managed as safely as possible so that as many people as possible can benefit from using the water.
International Climate Change Adaptation Initiative
Pacific Climate Change Science Program
This study addresses rainfall trends, the frequency of droughts, La Niña influences and the relationship between rainfall and Sea Surface Temperature (SST) in Tuvalu. The findings revealed that;
* de-trended rainfall time series show declining trends in all four rainfall stations over the period 1953-2012;
* the frequency of drought ranges from three to fourteen years with a mean of nine years
* the occurrence of drought appears to follow the La Niña years
* boplots provide an effective option for defining drought
This article presents an analysis of shoreline change in all 101 islands in the Pacific atoll nation of Tuvalu. Using remotely sensed data, change is analysed over the past four decades, a period when local sea level has risen at twice the global average (~3.90 ± 0.4 mm.yr−1). Results highlight a net increase in land area in Tuvalu of 73.5 ha (2.9%), despite sea-level rise, and land area increase in eight of nine atolls.