Titre : | Climate changes the water rules : How water managers can cope with today's climate variability and tomorrow's climate change |
Auteurs : | PACIFIC INSTITUTE ; 3rd world water forum, Kyoto, Japan, 2003 (2003; JPN) |
Type de document : | congrès/colloque |
Editeur : | S.E., 2003 |
Collection : | Dialogue on water and climate |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-90-327-0321-9 |
Note générale : |
+ 1 CD ROM Diffusion tous publics |
Langues: | = Anglais |
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Mots-clés: | CHANGEMENT CLIMATIQUE ; EAU ; GESTION DE L'EAU ; VARIABILITE CLIMATIQUE |
Résumé : | Why should the water sector be concerned with climate change? After all, its priorities are dealing with the present water crisis – about providing safe water and improved sanitation for billions of the world’s poorest people; about supplying enough water to grow the food to feed an ever increasing global population; and about leaving enough water in the natural environment to preserve ecosystems and conserve biodiversity. Indeed, climate change is not the primary concern of water managers. However, it is not doing as well as it should be to manage water in response to today’s climate variability – and the consequent droughts and floods. This report argues that if we learn to manage these phenomena of today better we will develop the resilience that will help us to manage more serious results of climate change tomorrow. One of the most important impacts of global warming is what climate scientists refer to as an «intensification of the hydrological cycle». Loosely translated, this means shorter periods of more intense rainfall, and longer warmer dry periods. Already, extreme weather records are broken every year. Hydrological disasters have claimed thousands of lives and disrupted national and regional economies. Years of economic development often have been wiped out by a single event. Water managers have started having to deal with record fluctuations in water availability, from critically dropping reservoir levels to overflowing sewerage and drainage systems. Most countries are not ready to cope adequately with today’s climate variability, and the poorest countries are the most vulnerable. The climate community has knowledge to share with water managers. They can offer tools and knowledge and could help water managers more if the water community explains what it needs to know and what kind of tools would be most useful. This report provides a wealth of information about climate change and variability. It also offers a first ever compendium of specific adaptation strategies for water managers and decision-makers to draw upon and a first overview of international support initiatives on water and climate. Unfortunately, the bulk of international funding related to climate change has gone towards mitigation (i.e. reducing greenhouse gas emissions) and to relief efforts. Greater investment in coping and adaptation capacity is sorely needed. Investing in adaptation capacity today will not only save lives and livelihoods, it will save money spent on relief efforts. The Co-operative Programme on Water and Climate (CPWC) has succeeded in raising awareness of the issue among both water managers and climate-water scientists. Hopefully this will lead to commitments to joint actions to reduce the vulnerability of so many of the world’s poor to the vagaries of climate. |
En ligne : | http://books.google.nl/books?id=hSgdB2ZXhOwC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r#v=onepage&q&f=false |
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