- If you want to feed the world—and contribute to poverty reduction, human health, and economic prosperity—pay attention to water.
- How can we feed a burgeoning population? Agriculture already uses some 70% of the world’s water. So if food production has to increase to feed today’s population (not to mention tomorrow’s), the stress on water resources will only get worse. How will we meet our energy needs? productivity issues? climate change issues on say wheat, rice?
- Again, it’s about water. How will we eliminate many water borne diseases?
- Water resources management is about a host of issues such as government policy, financing, allocation, transboundary conflict, and the ecosystem.
- Sustainable development will not be achieved without a water secure world.
- A water secure world harnesses water’s productive power and minimises its destructive force. It is a world where every person has enough safe, affordable water to lead a clean, healthy and productive life. It is a world where communities are protected from floods, droughts, landslides, erosion and water-borne diseases. Water security also means addressing environmental protection and the negative effects of poor management.
- A water secure world reduces poverty, advances education, and increases living standards. It is a world where there is an improved quality of life for all, especially for the most vulnerable—usually women and children—who benefit most from good water governance.
Monday 14 February 2011
Pay Attention to Water Issues- Some thoughts
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The message is very important to us for clean water.
Let us think in other way. Economic prosperity, rapid industrialization of 8-9% incremental growth do not need burgeoning population at all because industrialization reduces the dependence on manpower rather increases uses of machines. So, if we can manage the population to a limit then we need not think about the burgeoning manpower to feed and for safe water etc because the average rainfall of India is 1,170 mm for which our country is one of the wettest countries in the world. As the resources are limited and land is squished day by day due to industrialization and manpower, it will very difficult to feed uncontrolled population properly and hygienically. So, main point to concentrate on population control otherwise all messages/ thoughts will become a matter of academic interest without solving the route of the issue.
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