Coastal and Marine Water Quality Indicators and Methodologies to Determine Pollutant Loads in the Wider Caribbean

The Workshop “Coastal and Marine Water Quality Indicators and Methodologies to Determine
Pollutant Loads in the Wider Caribbean” took place in Havana, Cuba, with the following objectives:
? Analyse methodologies used to determine pollutant loads in the marine environment from point
and non-point sources and the main coastal and marine water quality indicators.
? Discuss methodologies used for the characterization and quantification of municipal and
industrial solid wastes.
? Present preliminary results for the update of the CEP Technical Report No.33.
The LBS Technical Focal Points of each country selected experts to attend the workshop
Representatives from national and international organizations also attended the Regional Workshop
invited by RAC-Cimab and CAR/RCU. The countries represented by experts were Barbados, Belize,
Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico,
Nicaragua, Panama and Venezuela