ERIC Number: ED290611
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1987
Pages: 9
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Safeguarding the World's Water. UNEP Environment Brief No. 6.
United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi (Kenya).
Two things make water a unique natural resource: (1) water is essential for human survival; and (2) the total amount of water in the world is constant. This document focuses on the increasingly difficult task of satisfying the collective thirst of people, industry, and agriculture without damaging the world's limited resources of fresh water. It presents a set of key facts regarding the planet's fresh water supplies and summarizes what the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has been doing to deal with this problem since the UN Conference on the Human Environment in 1972. The Environmentally Sound Management of Inland Water Resoures (EMINWA) program is described and EMINWA's action plan for the Zambezi River is discussed. The problems of drought and desertification are also addressed, and a bibliography of additional resources is provided. (TW)
Descriptors: Climate, Depleted Resources, Drinking Water, Ecological Factors, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Global Approach, International Cooperation, International Organizations, Natural Resources, Physical Environment, Quality of Life, Waste Disposal, Water Quality, Water Resources
United Nations Environment Programme, P.O. Box 30552, Nairobi, Kenya.
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Practitioners; Researchers; Policymakers
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi (Kenya).
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