I agree with you Yogesh. The water crisis is not foremost a crisis of availability, but rather of mismangement. Solutions presented are moreoften doctoring at the symptoms, instead of tackling the root of the problem. We - globally, nationanwide and on regional and local basis - need to think about how to grow more food with less water (and also less land). It´s imperative that Governments take a closer look on implementing projects across scales and borders, backed up by a comprehensive policy framework that is based on sound research. These overarching policies need to be equipped with a high adaptive capacity responding to specific challenges of specific situations. To my mind, one has to look at the smaller units before the big picture can be understood and changed. Only by creating positive exmaples of change within the socio-political nexus of extraction, use and re-use of water by different stakeholders, change on a larger basis can be achieved. Cheers
Published by Jan Förster, Monash Universtiy South Africa - PhD candidate, Reserach Assistant
I agree with you Yogesh. The water crisis is not foremost a crisis of availability, but rather of mismangement. Solutions presented are moreoften doctoring at the symptoms, instead of tackling the root of the problem.
We - globally, nationanwide and on regional and local basis - need to think about how to grow more food with less water (and also less land).
It´s imperative that Governments take a closer look on implementing projects across scales and borders, backed up by a comprehensive policy framework that is based on sound research. These overarching policies need to be equipped with a high adaptive capacity responding to specific challenges of specific situations.
To my mind, one has to look at the smaller units before the big picture can be understood and changed. Only by creating positive exmaples of change within the socio-political nexus of extraction, use and re-use of water by different stakeholders, change on a larger basis can be achieved.
Cheers