AMZnet Amazon Monitoring Network
The goal of AMZnet is to coordinate water quality monitoring efforts in the Amazon Basin, leading to targeting of high contaminant source areas and the implementation of conservation systems to prevent, control and remediate water quality problems. Human health and sanitation, as well as conservation and protection of areas of high biodiversity, are of primary concern.
World Water Watch is focusing monitoring efforts in the Napo River Basin (a major tributary of the Amazon River). Both permanent and mobile stations are being supported in the upper reaches of the Napo, which include areas of high biodiversity on the eastern slopes of the Andes. These areas are being impacted by colonization, oil exploration and production, as well as destructive forestry and agricultural practices.
WWW is establishing a network of monitoring organizations (NGO’s; and government agencies in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Surinam and Venezuela). WWW assists monitoring and conservation organizations to design, implement and maintain a basin-wide monitoring network to achieve environmental protection and sustainable development goals as described in the “Treaty of Amazon Cooperation”(Tratado de Cooperacion Amazonica – Brasilia, 1978).
To accomplish AMZnet goals, WWW has established monitoring support, data sharing and resources to partner organizations. Workshops, conferences, and community outreach and education programs are important elements of WWW’s AMZnet program (events).Partner and Collaborating organizations include:
Biological and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University
CEPA – Consorcio Educativo para La Proteccion Ambiental
(Educational Consortium for the Environmental Preservation)
Center for Ecology and Conservation BiologyCivil and Environmental Engineering at National Polytechnic University in Quito, Ecuador
Florida International University
Fulbright Academy of Science and Technology
International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation
International Water Engineering Centre
San Francisco University in Quito, Ecuador
School of Veterinary Medicine at University of California at Davis
U.S. Agency for International Development
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