GIS at ME&A

ME&A currently incorporates Geographic Information Systems (GIS)GIS MAps into its projects on an ever increasing scale. Beginning with the now complete Safe Drinking Water Program in Tajikistan and today with USAID's Clean Energy and Water Program in Armenia, GIS has been and continues to be an important component of each program's mission.

In Armenia, for example, ME&A utilizes GIS consistently in the implementation of a number of its current projects to develop capacity for integrated energy and water resources management in the country.

In the development of river basin management plans for the Vorotancewp conducts biological monitoring in the vorotan river basin in the south of armenia. 640x427, Voghji, and Meghriget rivers of southern Armenia, GIS resources are being used to design appropriate maps for several phases of the planning process, including characterization of the basins, pressure/impact analysis, delineation of water bodies, and development of the program of measures for the basins. Maps being developed by CEWP experts using GIS software show a holistic picture of river basin planning areas that includes hydrological networks, water use patterns, landscape zones, climatic zones, area-specific flow, natural disasters (flooding, landslides, mudflows), demography, industrial sites, delineation of surface and groundwater bodies, and locations for proposed wastewater treatment plants.

GIS is also being utilized by CEWP experts in the development of a Decision Support System (DSS) for water resource managers and decision makers in Armenia. The DSS will be integrated with GIS software to provide spatial representations of precipitation, evaporation, natural flow, and deep flow patterns over long periods of observation. It will include tools for the analysis of climate change trends and projections. Currently, CEWP experts are in the process of generating land cover/land use GIS layers for the southern river basin management area of Armenia using RapidEye satellite imagery. These layers will be incorporated into the DSS and also serve as a stand-alone resource so that water planners in the region will be able to make more environmentally informed decisions.

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