Water Scarcity/Poverty
Author : Randolph Barker
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 27,65 MB
Release : 2000-12
Category : Irrigation
ISBN : 9290904100
Author : Randolph Barker
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 27,65 MB
Release : 2000-12
Category : Irrigation
ISBN : 9290904100
Author : Shirley J. Hansen
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 25,98 MB
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 8770223351
A water crisis on our immediate horizon is destined to hurt, even kill, millions of children, and the window of opportunity to do something about it is rapidly closing. There is, however, a glimmer of hope that could turn into rays of sunshine. Water is a commodity, and we have just come through some painful times dealing with the shortage of another commodity—energy. For those who lived through the "energy crisis," this book offers a brief trip down memory lane.
Author : Randolph Barker
Publisher :
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 36,90 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN :
Author : Myles Fisher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 24,60 MB
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 1135724202
Conventional wisdom says that the world is heading for a major water crisis. By 2050, global population will increase from 7 billion to a staggering 9.5 billion and the demands this will place on food and water systems will inevitably push river basins over the edge. The findings from this book present a different picture. While it is convenient to visualize an inevitable global water and food crisis in which increasing demands result in increasing poverty, food insecurity and conflict, the reality is far more nuanced and revolves around the politics of equitable and sustainable development of resources. The first part of this book provides detailed insight into conditions of water flows within nine river basins. In the second part, authors summarize and re-analyze the outcome of the nine basins, providing a coherent global picture of water, water productivity and development. They assess the impacts of variations of these attributes on development and approaches for poverty alleviation, and explore the institutional factors that support or obstruct change. How people will manage river systems while protecting vital ecosystem functions will make the difference between catastrophe and survival. As Prof Asit Biswas points out, "... the world is facing a water crisis not because of physical scarcity of water but because of poor management practices in nearly all countries of the world." The book is based on the four years (2006-2010) of extensive research into the state of ten of the world’s major river basins carried out under the CGIAR Challenge Program for Water and Food’s Basin Focal Project. This book was published as a special issue of Water International.
Author : Luis Santos Pereira
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 36,1 MB
Release : 2009-03-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1402095791
One of the main problems confronting the world of the 21st Century is a shortage of water. There is already severe scarcity in many regions of the world, causing tremendous problems for local populations and indeed entire societies. There is insufficient water available for the production of food to alleviate poverty and starvation; the lack of water hampers industrial, urban and tourism development, forcing restrictions on other sectors, especially agriculture; health problems arise as the deterioration of ground and surface waters favours water-borne diseases, which flourish in the absence of decent water distribution and sewerage systems. Water conflicts still arise in areas under stress, while water for nature has become a vanishing priority in such zones. This book is a guide to the establishment of regional and/or local guidelines for developing and implementing new ideas for coping with water scarcity. The basic premise underlying the book is that water scarcity will persist, so personal, human and society-wide skills will be needed to cope with it while living in harmony with the necessary environmental constraints. The book provides basic information to assist decision makers, water managers, engineers, agronomists, social scientists and other professions (and their students) in formulating coherent, hopefully harmonious and consolidated views on the issue. Guidelines are also given for introducing the general public to the concept of water scarcity and how to deal with it.
Author : David Hemson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 10,96 MB
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1848132662
Rarely has such a contentious and complex issue emerged in twenty-first century development as that of water. In this book, co-editors David Hemson, Kassin Kulindwa, Haakon Lein, and Adolfo Mascarenhas use a global spread of case studies to illustrate that water is not simply an issue of physical scarcity, but rather a complex and politically-driven issue with profound future implications, both in the developing world and outside it. The book argues that for the international community to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, governments must step in to protect the rights of the poor. Here, the links between poverty and access to clean water are explored with an eye to political reform that can end the exploitative policies of big business and help to shape a more equitable world for all.
Author : Britt Debes Rasmussen
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 31,28 MB
Release : 2011-07
Category :
ISBN : 9783844380064
Inequality is not set to decrease and the rising number of poverty stricken people is set to clash when both water and food availability becomes even scarcer. As previous food exporters such as China and India becomes importers the battle for underground water and fertile lands, on which to grow food and fuel, will put much of the resource rich Africa in an even more exposed situation. Many parts of SSA suffer from a physical water scarcity but for the majority the scarcity is an economic water scarcity. If national governments and development organizations do not shape up quickly to protect SSA from water exploitation the consequences will be serious. There is a right way and a wrong way to deal with water scarcity. There are dangers in food-availability, health, land-grapping, conflict escalation etc. The main issues are all addressed here in an attempt to give insight and oversight of the current situation and the issues to tackle before aquifers are dried out completely.
Author : Barbara C. P. Koppen
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 24,23 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Drinking water
ISBN : 9066870699
Local government can be the pivot to make this happen.
Author : Richard Damania
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 26,78 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Droughts
ISBN : 9781464811791
Uncharted Waters: The New Economics of Water Scarcity
Author : Gordon McGranahan
Publisher : IIED
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 45,78 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Integrated water development
ISBN : 1843692317