Institutional commitments like in the Senegal River are created. Many initiatives are launched to avoid crises. Instead of a trend towards war, water management can be viewed as a trend towards cooperation and peace. decentralise the responsibility for water Īs far as transboundary conflicts are concerned, regional economic developement and cultural preservation can all be strengthened by states cooperating of water.To that aim, several measures should be taken: One of the Millenium Development Goals is to halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and sanitation. Decision-makers at all levels must be implicated. One of the main objectives of the World Water Council is to increase awareness of the water issue. Water should be recognized as a great priority. However, changes in food habits, for example, may reduce the problem, knowing that growing 1kg of potatoes requires only 100 litres of water, whereas 1 kg of beef requires 13 000 litres. With urbanization and changes in lifestyle, water consumption is bound to increase. Almost everywhere, water is wasted, and as long as people are not facing water scarcity, they believe access to water is an obvious and natural thing. Whatever the use of freshwater (agriculture, industry, domestic use), huge saving of water and improving of water management is possible.

This water challenge affects not only the water community, but also decision-makers and every human being. 'Water is everybody's business' was one the the key messages of the 2nd World Water Forum. There is a increasing awareness that our freshwater resources are limited and need to be protected both in terms of quantity and quality. With the current state of affairs, correcting measures still can be taken to avoid the crisis to be worsening.

It is a crisis of managing water so badly that billions of people - and the environment - suffer badly.' World Water Vision Report But the crisis is not about having too little water to satisfy our needs.

Another word for running out of water