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2009 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Facing Water Crises and Shortages in the Mediterranean
verfasst von : Henri-Luc Thibault
Erschienen in: Water Scarcity, Land Degradation and Desertification in the Mediterranean Region
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
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In the Mediterranean rim countries, water resources are limited and very unequally distributed over space and time. Southern rim countries receive only 10% of the total precipitation.
Twenty million Mediterranean people do not have access to drinking water, particularly in the South and East. By 2025, the water-poor population — with less than 1,000m
3
per capita per year — could increase to 250 million.
In a context of increasing shortages in parts of the region, and in view of the uncertainties brought about by climate change, the Blue Plan for the Mediterranean highlights the imperative need to adapt water management policies, to better manage the different uses and to ensure more optimal and effective use of resources, if present and future needs of populations and development are to be satisfied.