Description
Water is the source of life. And it is a scarce resource. If we continue to overuse and pollute our water, and to destroy our natural ecosystems, 30% of the world’s population will have insufficient water for its needs by 2025. Elroy Bos of IUCN argues that ensuring water security requires the integrated management of water resources, by balancing between natural and human needs at the ecosystem level, and by accounting for the actual value of natural services in development decision-making.
Information
- Author(s)
- Elroy Bos
- Publisher
- IUCN - World Conservation Union
- Place published
- Geneva
- Date / journal vol no.
- in “Environment & Security: Why Nature is a Matter of Survival”, Policy Matters, Newsletter of the IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy, Issue No. 9, May 2002
- Pages
- pp 10-11
