Water resources policy and administrative management

The project is based on the territory where a serious problem takes place: pollution of the river Ishim by agricultural waste and household dust; low educational level of the local community in environmental issues. Within the project framework it`s planned to study flora and fauna of the river, implement a number of nature protection measures, establish control mechanism over springs and coasts, form positive attitude of the population to environmental problems. Besides, realization of a special program named "Revival" including lessons and out-of-class actions on ecology at schools. Also trainings for schoolchildren are planned; a regional meeting of children`s public associations with attraction of 17 public associations of area are arranged; a series of lecturers and seminars with the purpose to attract local community`s attention to the problem are carried out. Nature protection actions with participation of volunteers from Vjacheslavka, Volgodonskoye, Mikhailovka, Izhevsk and Arshaly villages are taking place. The results of the project will be highlited in the newspaper "Glamour", regional newspaper "Forward" and in the electronic issue "Ecological bulletin". The following results are going to be reached: attitude of the local community members to environmental problems of the Ishim river basin is positively changed; control mechanism over the springs feeding the river is established; communy participation in the river pollution protection measures is strengthened.

Kazakhstan