Hållbar vattenplanering

Billions of children, women and men lack access to safe water supplies, which puts the affected in both social as well as economic despair. This paper will present some of the conclusions leading Non Governmental Organisations such as the UN has presented recently concerning the terms of sustainabil...

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Autor principal: Thorén, Cecilia E.
Formato: First cycle, G2E
Lenguaje:sueco
sueco
Publicado: 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/147/
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Sumario:Billions of children, women and men lack access to safe water supplies, which puts the affected in both social as well as economic despair. This paper will present some of the conclusions leading Non Governmental Organisations such as the UN has presented recently concerning the terms of sustainability. Much of it is true and important, but nothing can be done without extended cooperation between nations worldwide to find arguments that prevent short-term thinking and economic wealth on the behalf of future sustainability. With a growing population and an increased competition for fresh water, the world will soon face a severe shortage of good quality water for irrigation. This is because the distributions rarely match the demand, neither in Australia nor in Africa. Important to notice is the major factor that the degradation of the environment is not one country’s problem to solve. The problem is among us, grasping our whole society since the globalization and free trade has united the world. Scarcity of water supplies is a large issue around the world, and a necessity to focus on even in Sweden. It is a future planning problem that we will meet during our work on the field and an issue needed to be discussed. This essay tries to focus on how the current problems of water scarcity are being discussed in different parts of the world and how we plan for a sustainable future around water supplies. This paper highlights some of the solutions planners and co-workers are developing to make the affected participate in their own future planning. It compares three developing countries in north and east Africa, all lacking access to clean water, with a developed country and its’ water and irrigation problem.