Yallahs and Hope Catchments, Jamaica
Decision support for modelling and monitoring ecosystem services for Kingston's water security
Kingston, Jamaica
Government
NEPA, Water Resources Associates (WRA)
2020
Yallahs and Hope
This project focused on developing decision support tools for monitoring ecosystem services critical to Kingston's water security in the Yallahs and Hope catchments.
Challenges
Simplify complex water quality models
Understand needs across multiple catchment stakeholders
Develop decision support tools accessible to non-technical users
Solution
Developed an integrated decision support system embedded into existing government software workflows.
Results
Daily water quality indicators for oxygen, nitrates, phosphates, flow and temperature
Climate and land-use scenario modelling implemented
Full catchment integrated into the Aquascope live platform
Conclusions and Next Steps
This project demonstrated the need for simple, catchment-level decision tools and served as the early prototype for the Aquascope platform.
"The work completed was excellent."
Andre Reid
NEPA
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