Environmental Expert, via World Meteorological Organization: Key sectors such as agriculture, energy, tourism and health will be among those most affected by the impact of climate change on water resources, for example, reduced water availability, a deterioration in water quality, increased runoff and an increase in the salinization of groundwater as a result of sea-level rise. “Mainstreaming climate change in decision-making processes will therefore be central to all development and poverty alleviation efforts”, emphasized the Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Mr Michel Jarraud, today when he addressed the thirteenth World Water Congress, being held from 1 to 4 September in He recalled that six of the eight Millennium Development Goals relate to water resources management. Furthermore, the anticipated increase in climate variability due to climate change was likely to result in severe floods, droughts and cyclones, thereby having an adverse effect on the global efforts being made to meet these Goals by 2015. Accordingly, “… adaptation efforts will have to encompass the current and anticipated climate variability”.
There is a need to update land and water resources development strategies and economic planning through approaches such as integrated water resources management, integrated flood management and watershed management. In view of competing demands and the need for inter-sectoral planning, water resources managers require accurate and reliable climate information, which is not always readily available at present.
Therefore, WMO has launched an appeal for funding to set up hydrological information systems that can provide timely, accurate and comprehensive water resources information. The capacities of developing countries must be strengthened in this area. Mr Jarraud said that there was a growing need for the wider international exchange of hydrological data and products….
Environmental Expert: Key sectors such as agriculture, energy, tourism and health will be among those most affected by the impact of climate change on water resources, for example, reduced water availability, a deterioration in water quality, increased runoff and an increase in the salinization of groundwater as a result of sea-level rise. “Mainstreaming climate change in decision-making processes will therefore be central to all development and poverty alleviation efforts”, emphasized the Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Mr Michel Jarraud, today when he addressed the thirteenth World Water Congress, being held from 1 to 4 September in
He recalled that six of the eight Millennium Development Goals relate to water resources management. Furthermore, the anticipated increase in climate variability due to climate change was likely to result in severe floods, droughts and cyclones, thereby having an adverse effect on the global efforts being made to meet these Goals by 2015. Accordingly, “… adaptation efforts will have to encompass the current and anticipated climate variability”.
There is a need to update land and water resources development strategies and economic planning through approaches such as integrated water resources management, integrated flood management and watershed management. In view of competing demands and the need for inter-sectoral planning, water resources managers require accurate and reliable climate information, which is not always readily available at present.
Therefore, WMO has launched an appeal for funding to set up hydrological information systems that can provide timely, accurate and comprehensive water resources information. The capacities of developing countries must be strengthened in this area. Mr Jarraud said that there was a growing need for the wider international exchange of hydrological data and products….
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