Online monitoring tool for sustainable water management
The online monitoring tool aims at enabling small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the tourism sector to self-evaluate their performance in water efficiency and management and to understand how to promote water efficiency in their establishment. It also allows the public authorities to measure the degree of good governance and the effectiveness of water-tourism policies and to improve sustainable water management, especially at the regional and local level.
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The implementation activities included the development of a beta version, testing, validation, adjustments, final field-testing and evaluation by end-users (SMEs). 154 SMEs from 7 different MED countries completed the evaluation survey and were able to rate their level of achievement in implementing measures that promote water efficiency and review the recommendations on how to improve their water management performance in the areas where more actions are required. Drawn from SMEs’ replies, the monitoring allows evaluation of whether the systems of governance for water resources are functioning properly and yields indicators for implementation areas to measure the effectiveness of the existing water management policies.
Replicability conditions
The tool is available online, easy to access and use. The evaluation process conducted by the project revealed that the tool can be easily transferable in the case of other tourism related businesses. The time frame needed for its implementation is minimum.