Compare between the two Strategies:

Blue Gold

The objective of this Strategy is to show that we can do better.

BLUE GOLD project is an innovative, visionary 5-Year plan that will increase the amount of available water to 500 million m3 as of 2020 – only 7 years from now! By 2030, the amount will be 1 billion m3, equivalent in today’s money to more than 2 billion USD of wealth for the entire country to share.

Lebanese Government Water Strategy

• Updating the Water and Wastewater Strategies to account for changes and set
priorities
• Preparation of Executive decrees of the Water Code to make it implementable
• Speeding up Dam projects and complete the corresponding upstream and
downstream Water and Wastewater systems to preserve our water wealth
• Speeding up Wastewater projects through completing WW networks and
finalizing treatment plants to alleviate pollution
• Upgrading of the irrigation infrastructure to conserve our water resources
• Enforcing the law on illegally exploited private wells and other illegal activities
in the water sector
• Reforming the administrative framework through supporting the WE’s and LRA
• Shifting to volumetric meters and restructuring the tariff to include
wastewater fees.

Which of the two strategies do you think is more effective, and why?

The Blue Gold StrategyThe Lebanese State's Water conservation Plan

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