It ends today at the Stockholm World Water Week , an event which was attended by 2500 experts worldwide to discuss the availability of water resources in world and the consequences of change climate on water supplies.
This year, the week has focused the lens on the relationship between health / water spreading an information campaign about 41% of the world's population does not have to drink only water, but not to wash or to keep clean toilets.
(The photo above was intended to refer to the Sanitation is Dignity campaign ) which causes diseases and epidemics of any kind.
And according to the report presented a few days ago, saving water also passes through conservation of foods. According to the authors of the study each year in the U.S. are also throwing away 30% of food product for a value of 48.3 billion dollars
It 's like leaving the tap running throwing away about 40,000 billion gallons, or a quantity of' enough water to meet the domestic needs of 500 million people.
Wastes from which Europe is not exempt. He spoke Ecoblog few months ago about the food thrown away by the British (and others). And the report says:
Improving water productivity and reducing the amount of wasted food would provide a better diet for the poor and enough food to population growth. To achieve this, we propose a reduction of 50 per cent of losses and wastage in the supply chain.
Complicating the water supply of populations is the production of biofuels that could ultimately trigger more of a future emergency in the world. And against this perspective that seems to have become more than the dream of a nation that proclaims the WWF launched its "less talk and more action" that has attached the file Water for life: Lessons for climate change adaptation from better management of rivers for people and nature, which reveals the strategy of water supply to crops at the expense of the use home.
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