Sustainability challenges in water management
1997
Pereira, L.S. (Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Lisboa (Portugal). Dept. de Engenharia Rural)
When the concept of sustainable development has to be fully considered, then water management has to include new perspective relative to resource conservation, environmental friendliness, technological appropriateness, economic viability, social acceptability and human oriented development. This is entirely justified since pressure on water resources utilisation increases as a consequence of population growth, increased food demand and growing urbanisation. Consequently, irrigation and agricultural water use has to expand but following new orientations in order to support increased food production, to face competition of other uses, and to provide for sustainable water utilisation. Innovative issues are therefore required under the perspectives of environment and health, technological development, policy and institutional building, planning, and social and economic aspects.
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