Water Security for Food Security:Findings of the Comprehensive Assessment for China
1. Introduction Trends indicate that we are not doing the right things with our water resources. The pollution and depletion of rivers and groundwater will continue. Inequity in the benefits of water use will grow between haves and have-nots. Enough food grown at the aggregate global level does not mean enough food for everyone. Water scarcity, defined in terms of access to water, is a critical constraint to agriculture in many areas of the world. A fifth of the worlds people, more than 1.2 billion, live in areas of physical water scarcity, lacking enough water for everyones demands. Another 1.6 billion people live in water-scarce basins, where human capacity or financial resources are likely to be insufficient to develop adequate water resources (figure 1).
David Molden Mark Giordano
General for Research at the International Water Management Institute and coordinated the assessment Institutes Water and Society research group
国际会议
International Forum on Water Resources and Sustainable Development(2009水资源与可持续发展高层论坛)
武汉
英文
40-49
2009-09-22（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）