Rehabilitating important catchment areas

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Agenda 21 recommends rehabilitation of important, but degraded, catchment areas, particularly on small islands.

1. Rehabilitating degraded land
2. Managing degraded river basins
3. Developing watersheds

1. Protecting aquatic ecosystems
2. Practising rainwater-harvesting agriculture
3. Expanding rainwater catchment systems

1. Providing local watershed planning grants