http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2818615.stm BBC NEWS Wednesday, 5 March, 2003 UN warns of future water crisis The world's water crisis is so severe it could take almost 30 years to eradicate hunger, the United Nations says. A world short of water cannot grow enough food for all
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/20055/story.htm Planet Ark : Water crisis to deepen as supplies dry out - UN Water crisis to deepen as supplies dry out - UN FRANCE: March 6, 2003 PARIS/TOKYO - World water reserves are drying up fast and booming populations, pollution and global warming will combine to cut the average person's water supply by a third in the next 20 years, the United Nations said. http://www.enn.com/news/2003-03-06/s_3213.asp Tackling world's water crises would cost up to US$100 billion a year, says U.N. official Thursday, March 06, 2003 By Kenji Hall, Associated Press TOKYO - Most of the world's water crises can be resolved but would require political will and spending from US$50 billion to $100 billion a year, the United Nations' top envoy on water issues said Wednesday. http://ens-news.com/ens/mar2003/2003-03-05-02.asp UN: World Water Crisis Due to Leadership Inertia PARIS, France, March 5, 2003 (ENS) - A global water crisis of the future is taking shape today, due to "attitude and behavior problems," on the part of national leaders, says a report made public today written jointly by all United Nations agencies that deal with water. "This crisis is one of water governance, essentially caused by the ways in which we mismanage water," the agencies report. http://autofeed.msn.co.in/pandoraV15/output/6DA2FA78-E318-4693-A625-58 FF37E56543.asp MSN India - News Section India ranked 120th in water quality New Delhi (Mar 6): India has been ranked a poor 120th for its water quality in the United Nations system-wide evaluation of global water resources today. Only Morocco and Belgium are ranked lower. http://www.corpwatch.org/news/PND.jsp?articleid=5868 World: Water Privatization Under Fire Inter Press News Service March 10, 2003 Privatization of water services has had negative consequences in many countries, says the environmental network Friends of the Earth International, which urges global resistance to the commercialization of this essential resource. ----------- The World Water Assessment Programme, together with other partners, is developing the World Water Portal, to provide access to a wide body of water information to serve decision makers, water managers, technicians, and the public at large. Before going global, a prototype water portal has been developed for the Americas to test ways of sharing information among local, national and regional water organizations. Visit: http://www.waterportal-americas.org Visit the World Water Day 2003 website at: http://www.waterday2003.org ----------- World Water Development Report http://webworld.unesco.org/water/wwap/wwdr/index.shtml World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)| The UN World Water Development Report (WWDR) The UN World Water Development Report - Water for People, Water for Life A collective UN input The World Water Development Report (WWDR) is a periodic, comprehensive review giving an authoritative picture of the state of the world's freshwater resources, and aiming to provide decision-makers with the tools for sustainable use of our water. The World Water Development Report : Water for People, Water for Life Click here to order a copy: sale online at UNESCO Publishing Price: 49.95 euros or 49.95 US $ Available online: >>> The WWDR Table of Contents http://webworld.unesco.org/water/wwap/wwdr/table_contents.shtml >>> The WWDR Executive Summary (7 languages) http://webworld.unesco.org/water/wwap/wwdr/ex_summary/index.shtml >>> The WWDR Facts & Figures http://webworld.unesco.org/water/wwap/facts_figures/index.shtml Coordinated by the World Water Assessment Programme, the Report is the result of the collaboration of twenty-three UN agencies and convention secretariats and lays the foundations for regular, system-wide monitoring and reporting by the UN, together with development of standardized methodologies and data. The first edition of this report, Water for People, Water for Life, will be launched on World Water Day (March 22nd) at the Third World Water Forum in Kyoto, Japan. Measuring progress since Rio The World Water Development Report is part of an ongoing assessment project to measure progress towards achieving the goal of sustainable development formulated at Rio in 1992, and the targets set down in the UN Millennium Declaration of 2000. The international community pledged: * to halve by 2015 the proportion of people who are unable to reach, or to afford, safe drinking water; and * to stop the unsustainable exploitation of water resources, by developing water management strategies at the regional, national and local levels, which promote both equitable access and adequate supplies. How far have we come towards meeting these targets? Perhaps more importantly, how far have we yet to go, and what can we do to hasten our way? Ten years after Rio, it is time to take stock. Contents of the Report Generously illustrated with more than 25 full-colour global maps, numerous figures (diagrams, pie-charts), tables (including country tables) and photos, the report opens with a chapter describing the water crisis. It then: * Reviews progress and trends. * Proposes methodologies and indicators for measuring sustainability. * Assesses progress in 11 challenge areas, including: health, food, environment, shared water resources, cities, industry, energy, risk management, knowledge, valuing water and governance. * Presents seven pilot case studies of river basins representing various social, economic and environmental settings. Each chapter ends with a comprehensive list of related references, as well as useful web sites. The book is completely indexed, and includes in the annexes a list of the main global assessment publications. WWAP challenge areas Based on 8 of the 11 challenge areas that structure the World Water Development Report (WWDR), these are fact sheets, illustrated by figures extracted from the WWDR: - Meeting basic needs - Protecting ecosystems - Water and cities - Securing the food supply - Water and industry - Water and energy - Managing risks - Sharing water Organized around the eleven challenges identified by the WWAP, this short document provides you with major water-related facts and figures. http://webworld.unesco.org/water/wwap/targets/facts_and_figures.pdf Milestones: from Stockholm to Kyoto: This document lists thirty years of international conferences and agreements, reporting on water-related policy progress. It provides links to the official texts and quotations illustrating the major advances regarding sustainable development and management of water resources. http://webworld.unesco.org/water/wwap/milestones/index.shtml http://webworld.unesco.org/water/wwap/wwdr/table_contents.shtml WWAP | The UN World Water Development Report - Table of contents THE UN WORLD WATER DEVELOPMENT REPORT Water for People, Water for Life. Table of contents Part I: Setting the Scene Part I presents the background, starting with an introduction to the water crisis in its many shapes and forms. It then provides a glimpse on the milestones on the long policy road that has brought us to where we stand today, and proposes some tools to help us assess our progress towards building a better future. Chapter 1 - The World's Water Crisis Chapter 2 - Milestones Chapter 3 - Signing Progress: Indicators Mark the Way Part II: A Look at the World's Freshwater Resources Solid, vapour and liquid, water is diverse by its very nature. For the Earth 's inhabitants, this diversity also means great disparities in well-being and development. This part provides a brief look at the current state of freshwater, in all the world's regions. Chapter 4 - The Natural Water Cycle Lead agencies: UNESCO and WMO Part III: Challenges to Life and Well-Being This section explores the ways in which we use water and the increasing demands we are placing on the resource. [Further details on these challenges are available online] Chapter 5 - Basic Needs and the Right to Health Lead agency: WHO Collaborating agency: UNICEF Chapter 6 - Protecting Ecosystems for People and Planet Lead agency: UNEP Collaborating agencies: UNECE / WHO / UNCBD / UNESCO / UNDESA / UNU Chapter 7 - Competing Needs in an Urban Environment Lead agencies: UN - HABITAT Collaborating agencies: WHO and UNDESA Chapter 8 - Securing Food for a Growing World Population Lead agency: FAO Collaborating agencies: WHO / UNEP / IAEA Chapter 9 - Promoting Cleaner Industry for Everyone's Benefit Lead agency: UNIDO Collaborating agencies: WHO and UNDESA Chapter 10 - Developing Energy to Meet Development Needs Lead agency: UNIDO Collaborating agencies: WHO / UNEP / Regional Commissions / World Bank Part IV: Management Challenges: Stewardship and Governance This section examines the ways in which the competing needs, uses and demands elucidated in the previous part might be met. It discusses a few of the any tools available to decision-makers and communities to help them mould policy and practice so as to encourage an efficient and equitable use of the resource. [Further details on these challenges are available online] http://webworld.unesco.org/water/wwap/targets/index.shtml Chapter 11 - Mitigating Risk and Coping with Uncertainty Lead agency: WMO Collaborating agencies: UNDESA / UNESCO / WHO / UNEP / ISDR / CCD / CBD / Regional Commissions Chapter 12 - Sharing Water: Defining a Common Interest Lead agency: UNESCO Collaborating agencies: Regional Commissions Chapter 13 - Recognizing and Valuing the Many Faces of Water Lead agency: UNDESA Collaborating agencies: UNECE and World Bank Chapter 14 - Ensuring the Knowledge Base: A Collective Responsibility Lead agencies: UNESCO and WMO Collaborating agencies: UNDESA / IAEA / World Bank / UNEP / UNU Chapter 15 - Governing Water Wisely for Sustainable Development Lead agency: UNDP Collaborating agencies: FAO / UNEP / UNCBD / Regional Commissions Part V: Pilot Case Studies: A Focus on Real-World Examples This section checks the accuracy of the big picture on the basis of snapshots of water in the field. Seven case studies are presented here, to observe the effectiveness of different approaches to integrated management and to test our indicators for measuring progress. [Further details on these case studies are available online]. Chapter 16 - Chao Phraya River Basin, Thailand Office of Natural Water Resources Committee of Thailand (ONWRC) Chapter 17 - Lake Peipsi/Chudskoe-Pskovskoe, Estonia and the Russian Federation Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia, and the Ministry of the Environment of Estonia Chapter 18 - Ruhuna Basins, Sri Lanka Ministry of Irrigation and Water Management of Sri Lanka Chapter 19 - Seine-Normandy Basin, France Water Agency of Seine-Normandy (AESN, Agence de l'Eau Seine-Normandie) Chapter 20 - Senegal River Basin, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal Organization for the Development of the Senegal River (OMVS, Organisation pour la Mise en Valeur du Fleuve du SŽnŽgal) Chapter 21 - Lake Titicaca Basin, Bolivia and Peru Binational Autonomous Authority of Lake Titicaca (ALT, Autoridad Binacional del Lago Titicaca Perœ-Bolivia) Chapter 22 - Greater Tokyo, Japan National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management - Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of Japan (NILIM-MLIT) Part VI: Management Challenges: Stewardship and Governance This section concludes the Report by putting together the pieces that make up the giant puzzle of factors contributing to today 's global water situation. Many country tables are included in the chapter. Chapter 23 - The World's Water Crisis: Fitting the Pieces Together Annexes Acronyms List of UN assessments Index Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
