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Rural water supply and health : the need for a new strategy
No full textIn poor countries there is a linkage between lack of safe water, high levels of infections, and high rates of child mortality. To cope with this world-wide problem, the United Nations has launched The International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade 1981-90 with health as the overriding objective. Water supply close to the homes will also radically reduce the heavy burden on rural women for which water drawing is a household task. In order that the health objective will be attained, people have to use the water provided, keep it clean in the home, and keep the water supply system in operation. Water supply and sanitation can no longer be seen as merely technical problems, but involve measures to secure operation and maintenance, manpower, administration, health education, and creation of a sence of public ownership. This book synthesises contributions to and results of the United Nations Seminar on Rural Water Supply held in Uppsala Sweden, in October 1980
Rural water supply and health : the need for a new strategy
No full textIn poor countries there is a linkage between lack of safe water, high levels of infections, and high rates of child mortality. To cope with this world-wide problem, the United Nations has launched The International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade 1981-90 with health as the overriding objective. Water supply close to the homes will also radically reduce the heavy burden on rural women for which water drawing is a household task. In order that the health objective will be attained, people have to use the water provided, keep it clean in the home, and keep the water supply system in operation. Water supply and sanitation can no longer be seen as merely technical problems, but involve measures to secure operation and maintenance, manpower, administration, health education, and creation of a sence of public ownership. This book synthesises contributions to and results of the United Nations Seminar on Rural Water Supply held in Uppsala Sweden, in October 1980
Water cycle and people: water for feeding humanity
Get PDFThe distinction of ‘blue’ (liquid) and ‘green’ (vapour) water flow is introduced to make possible an
assessment of water flows to be appropriated for future food production. The author offers a
‘backcasting approach’ in assessing the consumptive water requirements for feeding humanity by 2050
and from where the needed water may be provided (irrigation, crop-per-drop improvements and
horizontal expansion into grasslands and forests). She concludes that food security will demand a major
shift in thinking
Water cycle and people: water for feeding humanity
Get PDFThe distinction of ‘blue’ (liquid) and ‘green’ (vapour) water flow is introduced to make possible an assessment of water flows to be appropriated for future food production. The author offers a ‘backcasting approach’ in assessing the consumptive water requirements for feeding humanity by 2050 and from where the needed water may be provided (irrigation, crop-per-drop improvements and horizontal expansion into grasslands and forests). She concludes that food security will demand a major shift in thinking.Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
Let it reign: The new water paradigm for global food security
No full textLet it Reign highlights key facts, conditions and trends regarding water aspects of food production, consumption and ecological sustainability. It presents policy recommendations within governance, capacity building/awareness raising and financing in order to improve water productivity and increase the possibility to produce the food needed, improve diets, and raise consumer awareness – all in an equitable and ecologically sustainable manner.Non-PRIFPRI2EPT
Planning of Africa’s land/water future: Hard or soft landing?: This article belongs to Ambio’s 50th Anniversary Collection. Theme: Solutions-oriented research
No full textKeynote Address: Durable River Basin Agreements: Sustainability in a Hydrology Perspective
No full text1) Feeding a World Population of More Than Eight Billion People. A Challenge to Science: Edited by Waterlow J., Armstrong D., Fowden L. and Riley R., Oxford University Press, 1998, 280 pp. ISBN 0-19-511312-8
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Water resilience and human life support - global outlook for the next half century
No full textThis article highlights green and blue water functions in the densely tied global water network, stabilizing the life support system and generating ecosystems and ecological services. Essential water challenges of the next half century are analyzed, identifying low-latitude dryland vulnerability and sharpening hydro-social water constraints. Attention is drawn to global warming, and the crucial roles of water and agriculture in stabilizing Holocene climate below a fatal warming of +2 °C or more. The article ends with a hydro-climatic, hydro-social and hydro-ecological outlook on how to principally navigate a resilient life support system stressed by climate change, population growth and increasing demands.</p
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