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Energizing River Patrol Team with Management Strategy and Educational Training

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The theme of the year is empowerment, to continue management assessment strategies and strengthen regional experience exchanges for the river patrols. To achieve the goal, the works can be divided into four parts:(1) Developing diverse strategies of public participation in water management, (2) Enhancing the activation and business communication the river patrols, (3) Promoting water environment protection policies and innovative technologies, (4) Promoting the river patrols to participate in water environmental pollution remediation and conduct management assessment. To elaborate the goals and to communicate with the local governments, the annual workshop was held. To understand the situations of local public participation, government officials of 15 counties and cities were interviewed and suggestions were made to meet local problems. Encouraging river patrols who dedicated themselves, 7 teams which are the most outstanding were awarded. Developing multiple strategies for river basin management, 2 regional conferences were held to encourage to exchange the experience of different areas. Cultivating river patrols as a deliverer of environmental education, 2 courses and trainings were held. The main goal of public participation is to gather people and provides platforms for communication, thus 2 local water environmental conferences were held to collect ideas and suggestions. In addition, to improve local people's understanding of the current status and development of rivers and share local water environment guarding and relevant experience and knowledge, 2 focal rivers discussion meetings were held. Furthermore, this year River Conservation Center held water environmental technical observations and river ecological monitoring activities continuously in the project. The patrol teams from the Taichung county were chosen to took part in the courses. These monitoring trainings and demonstration activities cultivated the knowledge and execution ability of the patrol team.
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Public participation, River Conservation Center, Water environment watch program
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