Tirana, December 16, 2015
The Global Environment Fund organization will provide an fund worth $ 5,5 million for the management of integrated water sources in the Drin River basin, a project that includes Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia.
The three countries have supported such initiative since it corresponds to several projects related to such project. The project will be implemented by the United Nations Development Program in Albania and the Global Water Partnership during the four upcoming years.
Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia will cooperate in this regional project, which has been considered by the states as a project of international importance. On November 25, 2011 the Ministers of Environment of Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the management of water sources of the river.
About 1,5 million people depend on this system that covers a large geographical area which includes parts of the five Riparians: Albania, Greece, FYR Macedonia, Kosovo and Montenegro.
Drin Basin has the following sub-basins: Lake Prespa, Lake Ohrid, Lake Shkoder, the Drin River, including its tributaries the Black Drin and the White Drin, the Buna/Bojana River (outflow of Lake Shkoder/Skadar in the Adriatic Sea).
News source: Scan TV
Photo credits: Tobias Klenze (Wikimedia)
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