Monitoring has suffered owing to a general lack of national funding, even if recently the situation has improved in some countries due to an increase in national environmental budgets (e.g., Armenia). In Georgia, no systematic groundwater monitoring has taken place for the past 20 years. Improvement in microbiological and biological monitoring is reported in Armenia and Georgia. Self-monitoring of sewage water by enterprises has been introduced in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, but enforcement is not always strict.