World Water and Food to 2025

World Water and Food to 2025
Author: Mark W. Rosegrant
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0896296466

A thirsty world; Alternative futures for water; Consequences of key policy changes; Implications for the future.

World Water Demand and Supply, 1990 to 2025

World Water Demand and Supply, 1990 to 2025
Author:
Publisher: IWMI
Total Pages: 50
Release: 1998
Genre: Irrigation
ISBN: 9290903546

Presents two alternative scenarios of water demand and supply for 118 countries over the 1990 to 2025 period and develops indicators of water scarcity for each country and for the world as a whole. This study is the first step in IWMI’s long-term research goal: to determine the extent and depth of water scarcity, its consequences for individual countries and what can be done about it.

Water Issues for 2025

Water Issues for 2025
Author: International Water Management Institute
Publisher: IWMI
Total Pages: 27
Release: 2000-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9290904038

Global Water Demand Projections: Past, Present and Future

Global Water Demand Projections: Past, Present and Future
Author: Upali A. Amarasinghe
Publisher: IWMI
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2014-10-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9290907932

A review of global water demand projections (WDPs) show substantial over- or under-estimation. The pre-1990 WDPs, with population as the main driver of change, over-projected current water use by 20 to 130%. The post-1990 WDPs, with sophisticated modeling frameworks, show substantial underestimation under the ‘business-as-usual’ scenarios and are more downward biased under sustainable scenarios. Overall, the value of long-term country-level projections in global WDPs is inadequate for local water resource planning. To increase the accuracy and value of global WDPs, future WDPs should take into account the spatial variation and influence of rapidly changing key exogenous and endogenous drivers of water demand in different sectors across and within countries, and provide a sensitivity analysis of projections.

Water Supply and Water Scarcity

Water Supply and Water Scarcity
Author: Vasileios A. Tzanakakis
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2020-11-04
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3039433067

This Book includes selected papers that has been published in the Water journal Special Issue (SI) on Water Supply and Water Scarcity. Moreover, an overview of the SI is included. The papers selected for publication in the SI include review and research papers on water history, on water management issues under water scarcity regimes, on rainwater harvesting, on water quality and degradation, and on climatic variability impacts on water resources. Overall, the issue identify and highlight the main challenges in water sector, and particularly in management and protection of water resources and in use of alternative (non-conventional) water resources, especially in areas with demographic change and climate vulnerability in order to achieve sustainable and secure water supply. Furthermore, general guidelines and possible solutions for an improved and sophisticated water management system are proposed and discussed, such as the adoption of advanced technological solutions and practices that improve water-use efficiency and the use of alternative water resources, to address the growing environmental and health issues and to reduce the emerging conflicts among water users.

Global Water Futures

Global Water Futures
Author: Erik Roswell Peterson
Publisher: CSIS
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780892065493

U.S. policies on the range of pressing international water-related issues--umanitarian relief, human health, economic development, environmental stewardship, and stability and security--fragmented, underresourced, and insufficiently coordinated. In particular, both the U.S. government's current organizational structure and the resources it now commits to water-related policies are inadequate for meeting the global water challenge in its current form. And when it comes to addressing future trends involving water, the government's structure falls far short of what will be required to respond to the mounting complexities--nd policy challenges--ssociated with the dynamic interactions among water, agriculture, the environment, and energy. To examine ideas on how to reform the structure and procedures of government to address the global water crisis, a working group of individuals representing diverse institutions and perspectives was organized by the CSIS Global Strategy Institute. This report and its recommendations were inspired by the working group and build on many of the valuable comments and reactions that were part of the group's deliberations.

Assessing Global Water Megatrends

Assessing Global Water Megatrends
Author: Asit K. Biswas
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2018-01-21
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9811066957

This book highlights what are likely to be the future megatrends in the water sector and why and how they should be incorporated to improve water governance in the coming decades. In this first ever book on megatrends for the water sector, 22 leading world experts from different disciplines representing academia, business, government, national and international organisations discuss what the major megatrends of the future are and how they will radically change water governance in the coming decades.