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Learning from Experiences: Best Practices and Case Studies The Malta Experience

22 May 2018

The Malta Experience The available natural water resources are sufficient to meet around 50% of the national water demand. [...] The Malta Experience This water management approach depends on the achievement of high levels of efficiency in water use by all water using sectors. [...] Rock-cut cisterns in the vicinity of the ‘Mnajdra’ Megalithic Temples The Maltese language contains a number of water related terms of Arabic origin, which make reference to water use activities such as Bir (well), Giebja (Cistern), Hawt (small water reservoir) and Menqa (water enclosure). [...] The Malta Experience In 1565, during the building of the city of Valletta, the first law requiring the development of rainwater harvesting facilities was enacted: “every house should have an underground tank for the collection of rainwater, under penalty of fifty scudi for failure to comply”. [...] Detail from a water colour showing the construction of the new city of Valletta The Malta Experience A complex system of well planned small dams were also built during the centuries in a number of valleys to increase the natural availability of water.

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Ghana