Climate change adaptation plan for the Rio Minho Watershed Management Unit
This Climate Change Adaptation Plan for the Rio Minho Watershed Management Unit Report represents the tenth deliverable under the project ‘Consultancy Services to Conduct Hazard and Vulnerability Assessments and Develop a Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) Plan for The Rio Minho Watershed and Fifteen Community CCA Plans’.
The Rio Minho Watershed Management Unit (RMWMU) in Clarendon, Jamaica was identified as the focus of this study for several reasons including, its level of degradation, vulnerability to climate change and the associated impacts, as well as vulnerability to seismic activity. In addition, the RMWMU is one of the major ground water producing basins in Jamaica with annual abstraction reaching about 400 million cubic metres (MCM) in one year. The primary objective of this consultancy is to reduce the vulnerabilities and mitigate the climate change risks in the RMWMU.