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「Greater Edendale Environmental Network (GREEN)」是一個基層民眾團體，他們注重南非Pietermaritzburg-Msunduzi地區的集水流域管理。此一團體的統籌者Sandile Ndawonde說：「我們的理想是在2009年之前建設一條『潔淨、安全』的Msunduzi河。我們相信每一個利害關係者都會在我們的願景上下注。」
GREEN站在協助的立場，參與該地區絕大多數的水資源管理和土地使用計畫。面對人們對潔淨、安全的水資源日益升高的需求，該團體已採取多項計畫和措施，以確保水資源的管理能達到顧全整個集水流域的層次。
GREEN致力於建立環境問題意識，教育社區民眾永續使用自然資源的必要。1995年間該地區遭嚴重洪災侵襲，奪走160條人命，自此以後該團體便開始運作。經歷數度的洪災之後，自然資源協會(INR)便與水研究計算中心(CCWR)、GREEN及Share-Net等團體，共同展開一項「集水流域整合管理」專案。
該團體的夢想包括一些具體的目標。根據GREEN的解釋，潔淨的河流意味著「降低泥土侵蝕（受到優化土地使用行為的鼓舞）、減少表面污染（改善水供給和環境衛生）以及減少工業污染。」而安全的河流則意指減少污染以降低洪水犯濫的危機。
除了為集水流域整合專案努力以外，該團體還制定了一項永久性計畫以達到對洪泛區的最佳利用，開始通過植樹和其他方法努力重建集水流域，開始一次環境教育運動，並說服政府官員強制性增加環境衛生組織和洪水報警系統。
「整個過程建立在集水流域的整體基礎上，因為集水流域顯然是一個生態水文體，優先於政治和社會經濟團體之上。」Ndawonde說道。
版權歸屬Earth Day Network，環境信託基金會（金霞 譯，李傑、張正慈 審校）
中英對照全文：http://news.ngo.org.tw/issue/water/2001/issue-water-irn01060401.htm
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The Greater Edendale Environmental Network (GREEN) is a grassroots group that focuses on good management of the catchments in South Africa's Pietermaritzburg-Msunduzi area. Says Sandile Ndawonde, the group's coordinator, "Our vision is 'A clean and safe Msunduzi River by the year 2009.' We believe that the vision is one that every stakeholder can buy into."
GREEN is participating in most of the area's water management and land use projects on a collaborative basis. The group has undertaken a number of plans and actions with regard to the increased demand of access to clean and safe water resources, and to ensure that the management of water resources is done at a catchment level.
GREEN is involved in creating awareness on environmental issues and to educate communities about the need for sustainable use of natural resources. The group began its work after severe floods in the region in l995, which killed 160. After these floods, an Integrated Catchment Management (ICM) programme was initiated by the Institute of Natural Resources (INR) in partnership with the Computing Centre for Water Research (CCWR), GREEN and Share-Net.
The group's vision includes specific goals. A clean river, according to GREEN, means "reduced soil erosion (encouraged by better land-use practice), reduced faecal contamination (improved water supply and sanitation) and reduced industrial pollution." And a safe river means reduced contamination and reduced risks from flooding.
In addition to its efforts on an integrated catchment plan, the group has developed a permaculture plan to make best use of the floodplain, initiated an effort to rehabilitate the catchment through tree-plantings and other efforts, begun an environmental education campaign, and lobbied local government officials to press for increased sanitation services and flood warning systems.
"The process is based at catchment level because a catchment is an obvious eco-hydrological unit that goes beyond political and socio-economic groupings," says Ndawonde. For more information, see Contacts.
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