CBWS Training in Chiapas, México

Community-Based Watershed Stewardship (CBWS) workshop with Certifications in Water Monitoring concluded September 7, 2013 in Montecristo, Chiapas, Mexico.

As part of the project Mecanismos innovadores para un programa cooperativo dirigido a la adaptación al cambio climático en Sierra Madre y Costa de Chiapas, México coordinated by the Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias–INIFAP-, a three-day Community-Based Watershed Stewardship with certifications in Water Quality Monitoring were completed on September 7, 2013 at the Community Center in Puerto Rico, Montecristo de Guerrero, Chiapas. This activity was co-sponsored by the Fondo de Conservación El Triunfo, The Nature Conservancy, the Comisión Federal de Electricidad, the Ministerio Federal de Medio Ambiente, Protección de la naturaleza y Seguridad Nuclear from Germany, and Global Water Watch. The purpose of the workshop was to provide training in the field of water quality monitoring as part of the model for community-based, science-based watershed stewardship promoted by GWW. The workshop was offered to watershed volunteers and students, with hands–on instruction focused on bacteriological and physical-chemical monitoring of water, and was conducted by Miriam G. Ramos Escobedo, Eduardo Aranda Delgado and Sergio S. RuizCórdova certified trainers with the Global Water Watch program.

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