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Subjects
- Subjects / Keywords:
- Natural resources
- Spatial Coverage:
- Georgia (Republic)
Alazani River Watershed (Georgia and Azerbaijan)
Notes
- Abstract:
- The Alazani and Iori Rivers are the major watercourses in the Kakheti region, traditionally the agricultural region of Georgia. Viticulture, the leading field, is supplemented by fruit-growing, cultivation of cereals and intensive stock farming in the Alazani River Valley.
The total catchment area of the Alazani River is 11,800 km2, with 6,962 km2 of the area located in Georgia. The catchment area of the Iori River is 5,260 km2, of which 4,650 km2 is located in Georgia. The Lower Alazani-Iori pilot watershed area, for which the given Integrated Natural Resources Management Plan (hereafter Integrated Watershed Management Plan-IWMP) is developed, fully encompasses the Dedoplistskaro municipality with more than 2,532 km2 of catchment area.
The waters and associated resources of the Alazani and Iori river basins, including land and biological resources, have various essential and economic functions involving but not limited to: provision of drinking water, nutritional base, energy and clean environment to the population; provision of water for agriculture, industries, fisheries; provision of local resources for subsistence economies; maintaining ecosystem integrity, richness and healthiness (water, soil and climate regulation, etc.); disaster risk reduction (prevention/control of floods, landslides, mudflows and avalanches); and provision of recreational resources to the population.
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