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PREFACE

In 1999, the Inter-Regional Workshop on Technologies for Waste Management was held in Alexandria, Egypt from the 13th to the15th of July. The workshop was organized by UNEP-IETC in collaboration with the Center for Environment and Development for the Arab Region and Europe (CEDARE), and The Association of Enterprises for Environmental Conservation (AEEC), and with the support of UNEP's Regional Offices in West Asia (ROWA) and Africa (ROA).

The workshop was organized in response to the growing needs of cities in West Asia, the Mediterranean and the Arab Region to build their management and decision making capacity in environmental management. Participants came from different parts of the Arab World and from various international organizations, non-governmental organizations and private sector companies in the field of waste management. The diversity of participation enriched the quality of the workshop and allowed a good interchange of experiences in saving, utilizing and optimizing scarce resources of cities in this region and especially with reference to protecting fresh water resources.

In order to capture the experiences and ensure that the countries of the Arab Region and its neighbors and other interested parties benefit from the shared knowledge at the Inter-regional Workshop on technologies for waste management, UNEP-IETC in cooperation with CEDARE undertook the task of collecting, documenting and publishing these case studies in this Technical Publication: "Integrated Solid Waste Management Practices to Protect Fresh Water Resources: Case studies from West Asia, The Mediterranean, and The Arab Region".

The nine featured case studies are from Djibouti, Egypt, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Oman, Palestine and Syria. They include themes of solid waste management experiences, waste water impact on fresh water resources, financing, technical orientations on landfill sites, suitable technologies, international cooperation and private sector participation.

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