Kyoto het 3e Wereld Water Forum (WWF3)

[Henk Elegeert]

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Cees Binkhorst wrote:
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> REPLY TO: D66 at nic.surfnet.nl
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> Date sent:              Wed, 05 Mar 2003 14:53:56 +0100
> From:                   Henk Elegeert <HmjE at home.nl>
> To:                     D66 Politiek Café <d66 at NIC.SURFNET.NL>
> Subject:                Kyoto het 3e Wereld Water Forum (WWF3)
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> > REPLY TO: D66 at nic.surfnet.nl
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> > Van 16 tot en met 23 maart a.s. zal in Kyoto het 3e Wereld Water Forum
> > (WWF3) worden gehouden.
> > Voor details zie; de website van het WWF:
> > www.worldwaterforum.org
> >
> > http://www.worldwaterforum.org/
>
> En de 'executive summary' staat op
> http://www.unesco.org/water/wwap/wwdr/ex_summary/
>
> Voor het volledige verslag moet Euro50 worden betaald!

Aj.. hebben we dat al niet betaald?

> Midden deze eeuw hebben in het slechtste scenario 7 miljard mensen in
> 60 landen met waterschaarste te maken, in het gunstigste geval 2
> miljard in 40 landen.


>
> Dit betekent m.i. ook dat water een overheidszaak moet blijven.

Zeker, maar.....

http://portal.unesco.org/ev.php?URL_ID=10064&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201&reload=1046904781>UNESCO

"
“Of all the social and natural crises we humans face, the water crisis
is the one that
lies at the heart of our survival and that of our planet Earth,” says
UNESCO
Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura.

“No region will be spared from the impact of this crisis which touches
every facet of
life, from the health of children to the ability of nations to secure
food for their
citizens,” says Mr Matsuura. “Water supplies are falling while the
demand is
dramatically growing at an unsustainable rate. Over the next 20 years,
the average
supply of water world-wide per person is expected to drop by a third.”

Despite widely available evidence of the crisis, political commitment to
reverse these
trends has been lacking. A string of international conferences over the
past 25 years
has focused on the great variety of water issues including ways to
provide the basic
water supply and sanitation services required in the years to come.
Several targets
have been set to improve water management but “hardly any”, says the
report,
“have been met.”

“Attitude and behaviour problems lie at the heart of the crisis,” says
the report,
“inertia at leadership level, and a world population not fully aware of
the scale of the
problem means we fail to take the needed timely corrective actions”.

Many countries and territories are already in a state of crisis.

...
"

Henk Elegeert

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