Protecting Georgia’s waterways, beaches from coastal pollution
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Georgia is welcoming this year’s beach season and is sparing no effort to ensure tourists and local holidaymakers enjoy a pollution-free seaside this summer.
To ensure Georgia’s coastal areas are free from rubbish and other waste, special equipment has been installed in Natanebi River to keep its water clean before it joins the Black Sea.
Black Sea beach in Shekvetili. Photo by Georgia's Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure.
Officials from Georgia’s Infrastructure Ministry today visited Shekvetili village on the Black Sea coast in western Georgia’s Guria region to oversee the equipment, which the state paid about 125,000 GEL for.
The Ministry said this was a pilot project that was implemented following a recommendation by Georgia’s environment experts as a way to improve the ecological coastal environment of the Black Sea.
The equipment can move up or down the river, in accordance with the water level, and catch all the waste that floats on the surface. It is capable of catching rubbish as well as petroleum products.
Photo by Georgia's Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure.
Equipment will be installed on both sides of the river that will direct the gathered waste into a larger collection area, where it can easily be removed and discarded.
The equipment will be fully installed by the end of July.
For the first time in 25 years a group of international scientists are monitoring the water quality along the Black Sea coastline in Georgia.
A section of coastline and roadways in several of Georgia’s Black Sea towns will be soon corrected and restored.
One of Georgia’s attractive coastal towns boasting black sandy beaches will be rubbish-free this summer.
Today several top officials announced large-scaled disinfection work targeting mosquitoes and other disease-bearing insects will be carried out in western Georgia to reduce the spread of contagious diseases generally spread by insects.
Georgia’s Black Sea resort town of Kobuleti is getting ready to host tourists as well as locals with its renovated coastline this upcoming summer season.
For the first time in the history of Georgia a scientific research ship will launch an acoustic investigation into fish resources on Georgia’s Black Sea coast.
Located in Georgia’s western Ozurgeti municipality, Shekvetili Dendrological Park with over 200 giant trees of unique species, 58 species of birds from all continents and bamboo grove is ready to receive visitors.