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 External Partners

Groundwater is the primary water source on the island Tutuila in American Samoa, and accurate
quantification of groundwater availability is essential for well-informed management of this limited
resource. A water budget approach using SWB2, a soil water-balance model was applied to Tutuila
with the primary objective of calculating spatially and temporally distributed net-infiltration, which
directly controls groundwater recharge rate. Other water budget components such as

 External Partners

Groundwater is the primary water source on the island Tutuila in American Samoa, and accurate
quantification of groundwater availability is essential for well-informed management of this limited
resource. A water budget approach using SWB2, a soil water-balance model was applied to Tutuila
with the primary objective of calculating spatially and temporally distributed net-infiltration, which
directly controls groundwater recharge rate. Other water budget components such as

 External Partners

Quantifying hydrologic parameters such as precipitation, streamflow, evapotranspiration,
and aquifer response are fundamental to understanding a region’s hydrological budget, and
thus the availability of water resources. This is particularly important in small island
developing communities where critical water resources are limited. Climate and
streamflow measurements provide information on ground and surface water supply, while
measurement of aquifer parameters such as water level and salinity is imperative for

 External Partners

On Tutuila, the main island in the Territory of American Samoa, sustainable water
resources management is a high priority. Groundwater provides drinking water to over 90%
of the island’s residents. However the sustainability of this resource is threatened by overuse,
salinization of wells, and reduction of water quality—potentially due to prevalent non-point
pollution sources. Proposed solutions to these and other water issues on the island involve
exploration for new groundwater sources with lower contamination potential and

 Pacific Data Hub

Vanuatu 2020 National Population and Housing Census: basic Tables Report - Volume 1. Noumea, New Caledonia: Pacific Community. 351 p.

 Ocean Planning

This contains 10 field reports of 10 ocean planning teams in 201, that conducted Solomon Islands first round of consultations to the nine Provinces and Honiara, towards the development of a National Marine Spatial Plan by 2020. The national initiative is lead by MFMR and MECDM as mandated by the Ocean12 (a body comprising of 12 key ocean-Ministries) as per the Solomon Islands National Ocean Policy. Funding and technical support were provided by IUCN, GIZ and WCS through the PEUMP Project. These 10 reports will be annexed to the main Ocean Planning first round consultations report.

 Solomon Islands Environment and Conservation Division

SIRC EIS available for public review and comment

 Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme

Dataset contains training material on using open source Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to improve protected area planning and management from a workshop that was conducted on October 19-23, 2020. Specifically, the dataset contains lectures on GIS fundamentals, QGIS 3.x, and global positioning system (GPS), as well as country-specific datasets and a workbook containing exercises for viewing data, editing/creating datasets, and creating map products in QGIS.

 Solomon Islands Environment and Conservation Division

ESIA for Propose Pacific Nickel Mining Ltd at Kolosori, Isabel