GEF IWRM Demonstration Projects Building Awareness of "Ridge to Reef" IWRM across the Pacific

The GEF Nadi IWRM Project launched its “Water Bus” campaign in February 2011. Mr. Vinesh Kumar, Fiji’s Demonstration Project Manager, said that the bus launch was the start of a wider awareness campaign on how people from different sectors and backgrounds need to work together to improve water management and to reduce the risks from flooding. In the North Pacific, Mr. Leerenson Airens, IWRM Focal Point for the Federated States of Micronesia launched a series of water awareness billboards promoting IWRM on Pohnpei Island. After seeing the “Water Bus”, Mr. Airens told Pacific-IWRM.org that he and his Micronesian colleagues had discussed trying to convince Continental Airways to print a similar design on one of the aircraft that does the island hopper route from Hawaii to Palau.