Freshwater Under Threat - Pacific Islands
type: Dataset
description: This study undertakes a vulnerability assessment of the freshwater resources of the PICs, based on input from technical experts and regional resource managers.
language: en
date created: 21-07-2021T03:07:03.0
date modified: 16-07-2025T22:07:50.0
publisher: Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme
subject of: Inland Waters
keywords: freshwater
keywords: vulnerability assessment
license: https://pacific-data.sprep.org/resource/public-data-license-agreement-0
spatial: POLYGON ((-218.04930210114 -2.1674533980556, -165.78369140625 13.18290079096, -139.53368425369 -3.1039475853009, -191.33055210114 -27.319719771105))
spatial coverage: Pacific Region
accountable person: Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, United Nations Environment Programme
distribution: Freshwater Under Threat - Pacific Islands
  type: DataDownload
  file format: pdf
  encoding format: application/pdf
  content size: 4428814
  description: A selection of islands was chosen for the study, representative of the two main island forms: (i) atolls and limestone islands dependent on rainwater and groundwater – nauru, Majuro Atoll (in Republic of the Marshall islands) and Fongafale islet (Tuvalu); and (ii) volcanic islands with river systems – including Rarotonga (cook islands), Viti levu (Fiji), new Guinea (Papua new Guinea) and Upolu (Samoa).