This article links into the AS course section on Sustainable Management within Arid Environments. The article tells us about the organisation of a conference in Dubai to discuss water shortages within Africa and the Middle East. The Dubai workshop will bring together water experts from a number of Arab countries to discuss their experiences in sustainable water use. In addition, various participants will present projects related to sustainable water use, in line with Agenda 21's call for programmes on "Water for sustainable food production and rural development" and prepare for innovative conservation technologies. The conference was organised to comply with Agenda 21's main objective in ensuring adequate water supplies are maintained and supplied to the entire population of the planet, whilst preserving the hydrological, biological and chemical functions of ecosystems. The conference was held in April 2002, and with the advantage of hindsight we can see objectives such as these proposed by Agenda 21 have not been achieved, such as water availabilty for the population of the world. This quite clearly has failed to materialise, and millions of people such as in sub saharan African countries like Kenya still live in poverty with no water supplies. It shows the good intent of countries to try to meet Agenda 21's objectives but little has progressed forward. The article also details the hope of countries to develop technology that better recycles water, from precipitation etc to be used in sustainable farming but this has been difficult to iniciate in areas of poverty, leaving regions of Africa and the Middle East still in the same situatuation 11 years later.
http://www.ameinfo.com/4941.html
P.Ramsbotham
http://www.ameinfo.com/4941.html
P.Ramsbotham
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