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Coping with water scarcity: Challenge of the twenty-first century (pdf 458kb)
Water scarcity affects all social and economic sectors and threatens the sustainability of the natural resource base.In addressing the issue of water scarcity, an inter-sectoral and multidisciplinary approach needs to be taken to maximize the economic and social welfare benefits of new policies. It is also essential to take into account development, supply, use and demand, and to place the emphasis on people, their livelihood and the ecosystems that support them.
This UN paper, developed to coincide with World Water Day 2007, addresses the multiple challenges of water scarcity including:
- The multiple dimensions of water scarcity
- The vicious cycle of water and poverty - an issue of life and livelihood
- Growing demand for a finite resource
- Sharing water - a cause of conflict or an opportunity to cooperate?
- Water in rural areas - issues of vulnerability and sustainability
- Climate change - more troubled waters ahead
- The way forward - we can do much better
- Improving investments in water to reach the Millennium Development Goals
- Improving health through better access to water
- Producing more with less water
- Managing uncertainty for the benefit of the poor
- Valuing social and environmental services
- Making water scarcity everybody's business
- Resource link:
http://www.unwater.org/wwd07/ downloads/documents/ escarcity.pdf - Published: 2007
- Source: UN-Water (http://www.unwater.org)
- Added to ADG on: 06 June 2007 , contributed by: ADG team
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