CSO Monitors Environment in the Industrial Zone

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The project “Forming the System of Civic Monitoring of the Environmental Changes in the Industrial Zones” funded by EPF through the Open Door Program conducted a public meeting with local community groups, representatives of industrial units and local government in Kaspi (Industrial Zone) on March 9, 2011. The EPF grantee Center for Environmental Law managed to gather major stakeholders to discuss Kaspi population’s acute ecological problems (air pollution and low quality drinking water) mainly originating from the local cement factory. The community representatives received an opportunity to give direct questions on all the issues of their concerns to the representatives of the cement factory and local authorities. The presentation of the evidence-based findings of ecological monitoring by the grantee made possible start the first-ever in Kaspi dialogue between the community, local officials and representatives of the cement factory to find participatory solutions to the detected problems.

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