1 Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making Economic frameworks to inform decision-making 2 Copyright © 2009 The Barilla Group‚ The Coca-Cola Company‚ The International Finance Corporation‚ McKinsey & Company‚ Nestlé S.A.‚ New Holland Agriculture‚ SABMiller plc‚ Standard Chartered Bank‚ and Syngenta AG. This report was prepared with the support and active participation of each member of the 2030 Water Resources Group‚ but the views expressed in it are not
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a large part of its population suffers from severe and chronic scarcity of water. The problem is not generally experienced or even realised in upper middle class enclaves of cities like Mumbai and Pune. However‚ as you move away from these privileged areas‚ women walking or standing in queues to collect water is a familiar sight across the state. In nearly 70% of the state’s villages (around 27‚600 villages)‚ water is either not available within 500 metres or is not available within 15 metres
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CASE STUDIES OF WATER RESOURCE PLANNING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: LESSONS LEARNED Mr AW Hall and Dr N Walmsley 1. Background At the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992‚ a strategy for improving natural resource development and management was developed. Known as Agenda 21‚ Chapter 18 presented a pioneering plan of action needed for moving toward development that is economically‚ socially and environmentally sustainable. It highlighted
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As many people know‚ California has been experienced drought for more than 5 years. However‚ most of people don’t realize California drought is a big environment disaster. The drought affects the agriculture directly‚ so that a lot of famers experience the loss of their products. According to the BBC news‚ California drought has already made more than 50‚000 people turn into unemployment‚ and the California drought also cause the economic loss accumulated to 2 billion Dollars. Other than that‚ the
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Water: Global Common According to James E. Post‚ common is a shared resource‚ such as land‚ air‚ or water that a group of people uses collectively. In the article title‚ Water: Critical shortages ahead?-water is a resource shared globally and its consumption has raised six fold between 1900 and 1995-more than double the rate of population growth. According to a 1997 United Nations assessment of freshwater resources found that one third of the world’s population lives in countries experiencing
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WATER AND SANITATION PROGRAM: POLICY NOTE Supporting Poor-Inclusive WSS Sector Reform Devolution in Kenya: Opportunities and Challenges for the Water Sector September 2013 KEY FINDINGS Devolution under Kenya’s new 2010 Constitution has wide-ranging implications for the water sector. The Constitution recognizes that access to safe and sufficient water is a basic human right. It also assigns responsibility for water supply and sanitation provision to 47 newly established counties
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freshwater resources. A huge number of these freshwater resources are found in transboundary rivers and lakes. That is why the rules that allocate these resources and settle disputes over them are of the utmost importance. The availability of freshwater has decreased because of different factors such as environmental degradation and overexploitation‚ increasing agricultural and industrial demand and population growth. About 2.3 billion people live in river basins that are under water stress today
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Draft India’s River Linking Project: The State of the Debate1 Tushaar Shah Upali Amrasinghe Peter McCornick Abstract The idea of linking water surplus Himalayan rivers with water scarce parts of western and peninsular India has been doing the rounds for the past 150 years. However‚ the idea has now got detailed in the form of a mega-project for inter-linking of Himalayan and peninsular region. Never in the past has this idea generated as much discussion and debate as during the recent years
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from unsafe water than from all forms of violence‚ including war (UNDESA‚ 2014) 1.6 billion people‚ or almost one quarter of the world’s population‚ face economic water shortage (UNDESA‚ 2014) Question 2: Explain‚ in your own words‚ what the difference is between water quality and water quantity? I will like to put Water quality as the worth or degree of goodness of water at a point in time. While water quantity is the amount of available water at a point in time Question 3: Is water quantity or
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Scarcity is often misinterpreted and not clearly understood‚ making it vital to realize the factors that make something scarce are limited resources exist‚ the product is desirable‚ and has more than one use. A resource with an available amount less than its preferred use is scarce. Throughout our developing world‚ we are discovering that more of what surrounds us is becoming restricted except with a lack of knowledge as to why or how to prevent it from occurring. As humans‚ we are continually putting
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