Pay Attention to Water Issues- Some thoughts

• 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.

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