Friday, June 10, 2011

Climate change: Climate change to reduce water availability, FAO warns!

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A woman piles up wheat after harvesting at a farm in village Majra Khurd of Haryana. File photo
A woman piles up wheat after harvesting at a farm in village Majra Khurd of Haryana. File photo.

Climate change will make water less available to produce food crops in years to come, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a report issued Thursday.

River runoff and aquifer recharges will decrease in the Mediterranean, the Americas, Australia and southern Africa, it said.

Areas in Asia which depend on the melting of ice and mountain glaciers will also be affected, while areas with a lot of fluvial deltas are threatened by reduced water flow, increased salinity and rising sea levels, said the report entitled “Climate Change, Water and Food Security”.

While all Nations talk of 'Food-Security', the equally crucial 'Water-Security' is being neglected by one and all!


This should happen at micro-level through restoration of the degraded storm water drainage systems, provisioning of water percolation, conscious increasing of ground water levels, reducing the water wastage by adapting water efficient fittings, drip irrigation and development of local water storage for agriculture, horticulture, et al.

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