Editing Geography of Georgia (country) (section)

==Environmental issues==
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Beginning in the 1980s, Black Sea pollution has greatly harmed Georgia's tourist industry.<ref name=":02" /> Inadequate sewage treatment is the main cause of that condition.<ref name=":02" /> In Batumi, for example, only 18 percent of wastewater was treated before release into the sea as of the early 1990s.<ref name=":02" /> As of the early 1990s, an estimated 70 percent of surface water contained health-endangering bacteria to which Georgia's high rate of intestinal disease was attributed.<ref name=":02" />

The war in Abkhazia did substantial damage to the ecological habitats unique to that region.<ref name=":02" /> In other respects, experts considered Georgia's environmental problems less serious than those of more industrialized former Soviet republics.<ref name=":02" /> Solving Georgia's environmental problems was not a high priority of the national government in the post-Soviet years, however; in 1993 the minister for protection of the environment resigned to protest this inactivity.<ref name=":02" /> In January 1994, the Cabinet of Ministers announced a new, interdepartmental environmental monitoring system to centralize separate programs under the direction of the Ministry of Protection of the Environment.<ref name=":02" /> The system would include a central environmental and information and research agency.<ref name=":02" /> The [[Green Party (Georgia)|Green Party]] used its small contingent in the parliament to press environmental issues in 1993.<ref name=":02" />

Georgia participates in a number of international environmental agreements. It is a party to: [[Air Pollution]], [[Biodiversity]], [[Climate Change]], Climate Change-[[Kyoto Protocol]], [[Desertification]], Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, [[Law of the Sea]], Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, and Wetlands.