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What is the Global Water Challenge?

What is the Global Water Challenge?. Laura Keating Global Strategy Institute Center for Strategic and International Studies March 23, 2007. Parameters. Challenges. Solutions. The Global Water Challenge: PARAMETERS. Per Capita Water Availability. SCARCITY. SCARCITY. 90%. 80%.

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What is the Global Water Challenge?

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  1. What is the Global Water Challenge? • Laura Keating • Global Strategy Institute • Center for Strategic and International Studies • March 23, 2007

  2. Parameters Challenges Solutions

  3. The Global Water Challenge: PARAMETERS

  4. Per Capita Water Availability SCARCITY

  5. SCARCITY

  6. 90% 80% SCARCITY

  7. 1.1 BILLION 2.6 BILLION ACCESS

  8. United Nations Development Program: “Not having access to clean water” is a euphemism for profound deprivation. ACCESS

  9. Developed Regions (15) Populations without access to improved drinking water sources in 2002 (millions of people) Source: Millennium Assessment Program Eurasia (20) Oceania (3) Latin America & Caribbean (60) East Asia (303) Africa (295) South Asia (234) Western Asia (23) ACCESS Southeast Asia (115)

  10. QUALITY Chinese SEPA: more than 70% of water in five out of seven major water systems is too polluted for human use

  11. QUALITY

  12. ECOSYSTEMS Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: 5%-25% current use is unsustainable

  13. QUALITY ECOSYSTEMS ACCESS SCARCITY

  14. The Global Water Challenge: COSTS

  15. Human Development Challenge Economic Challenge Security Challenge

  16. Human Development • Gathering Water • 10-60 minutes per day • Uganda: 660 hours/family • Africa: 40 billion working hours

  17. Human Development • Water-related Disease • 50% of developing world’s hospital beds • 1.8 million diarrheal deaths • 17% of all child mortality

  18. Human Development 10-year-old girl in El Alto, Bolivia: “Of course I wish I were in school. I want to learn to read and to write... but how can I? My mother needs me to get water and the standpipe here is only open from 10-12. You have to get in line early because so many people come here.” Text

  19. $29 billion $34 billion Latin America South Asia sub-Saharan Africa East Asia $23.5 billion $66 billion Economic Challenge $170 billion = 2.6%

  20. Economic Challenge

  21. Economic Challenge

  22. Economic Challenge

  23. “Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting over” Security Challenge

  24. Security Challenge Water’s Importance Water Trends Water Conflict + =

  25. Conflict or Collaboration? Global number & type of events related to international river basins, 1948-1998 Collaboration Conflict Extensive military act Political/military hostile action Strong official verbal hostility Neutral non-significant act Official verbal support Economic/Technical agreement or support Intl. water treaty Small-scale military act Diplomatic/economic hostile action Mild official verbal hostility Mild verbal support Cultural/ scientific agreement or support Military econ. strategic support

  26. Security Challenge

  27. Security Challenge

  28. Security Challenge

  29. The Global Water Challenge: SOLUTIONS

  30. 1 Mobilize technologies

  31. 2 Integrated Water Resource Management

  32. 3 Rational pricing

  33. 4 Multilateral cooperation

  34. Conclusion

  35. www.csis.org www.csis.org/gsi/global_waters_future/

  36. What is the Global Water Challenge? • Laura Keating • Global Strategy Institute • Center for Strategic and International Studies • March 23, 2007

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