Experts call for radical re-think in global water management

With the world’s population forecast to grow by 2-3 billion by 2050 and water already a scarce resource for some, there has to be a radical transformation in the management of the planet’s resources of the life-giving liquid, experts warned at the start of World Water Week here.
“One in three people is enduring one form or another of water scarcity” in the world today, according to a report compiled over five years by 700 experts and presented at the event in the Swedish capital opening on Monday.



“Government policies and their approach to water are probably the most urgent that need changing in the short term,” he said.

There is, in fact, enough land, water and human capacity to produce enough food for a growing population over the next 50 years, “so in this sense the world is not ‘running out of water’,” he added.

One of the challenges is to provide enough water for agriculture without damaging the environment.