Livelihoods, water and sanitation
One point two billion people lack adequate access to safe water. Livelihoods approaches help shift the focus of the water and sanitation sector from purely domestic uses and health impacts to greater recognition of households’ water use priorities and the importance of water for productive uses. More…
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- Outlining threats to water security by climate change in arid and semi-arid regions, and recommendations for adaptive strategies
- 2009
- This perspective document, part of the 16-paper series on water and climate change adaptation, focuses on the impacts and adaptive strategies in arid and semi-arid regions. The series reflect the cent...
- Opportunities from rainwater harvesting to human well-being
- United Nations [UN] Environment Programme , 2009
- The aim of this report is to compile a synthesis of experiences that can provide insight into the multiple opportunities rainwater harvesting can have when addressing human well-being, while contin...
- The role of farm ponds in sustaining livelihoods
- J. Miller / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , 2009
- Aquaculture has been recognized as an important component of rural development, aimed at improving food supply and generating more income for poor farming households. Ponds add value to farming act...
- The affects of climate change on the water resources of vulnerable groups
- C.A. Sullivan;C. Huntingford / National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra, 2009
- This paper focuses on the impact of climate change on water resources and the affect it has on human society. Millions of people are at risk from the impacts of climate change associated with the soci...
- Climate change could fuel further conflict in the Middle East
- O. Brown;A. Crawford / International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2009
- Climate models are predicting a hotter, drier and less predictable climate in the Middle East, a region already considered the world's most water-scarce and where, in many places, demand for water ...
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