The following constitutes the first term performance report regarding implementation of the project; “Assessing the Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Belize’s Water Resources,” implemented by CATHALAC and the ERI, with the support of Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) and the CaribSave partnership. The period of performance to which this report pertains is the first six of the project’s eighteen months, spanning February through July 2013.

The Assessing the Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Belize’s Water Resources project aims to evaluate the potential combined impacts of climate change-driven changes in rainfall and land cover change on Belize’s hydrology. The project aims to assess not only the changes in the supply of water resources, but also the potential future changes in demand for those water resources. While the project is focused on the independent Central America and Caribbean nation of Belize, the hydrological modeling that the project entails of necessity also includes portions of neighboring Mexico and Guatemala

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