Region of interest
This Source Book of Alternative Technologies for Freshwater
Augmentation on Small Island Developing States includes technologies that
may be potentially applicable to Small Island Developing States in the South
Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, South China Sea, and Caribbean, as shown in Figure
7. These four regions of the world have been identified as containing all of the
Small Island Developing States (SIDS). In the Pacific Ocean, there are nearly 30
000 small islands, over 1 000 of which are populated, and several thousand small
islands in the Indian Ocean, including about 1 300 islands in the Maldives
alone, of which about 200 are inhabited. Between these oceans lie many thousands
of islands, including the island groups of Indonesia, Malaysia and The
Philippines, and the islands of Papua New Guinea and Vietnam. In the Caribbean
Sea, there are several thousand small islands, of which about 100 are
inhabited.