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Natural Resource Issues
Water quality
Solid
waste
disposal
Floods
Wildlife habitat
Land
Conservation
World Record of Natural Disasters
350 natural
disaster
events from
1901 to
2000
Volcano
eruptions
rank 3rd
Asian Disaster
Reduction
Center
(ADRC), OFDA,
CRED
International
Disaster
Storms/
Typhoons
rank 1st
Both
earthquakes
and floods
rank 2nd
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Ratified by 145
countries in
November 2002
Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights
(CESCR)
Fundamental Human Right
Equitable
Access to Safe
& Secure
Drinking Water
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WHO/UNICEF
1.1 billion people lack
access to improved water
supply
Global Water Supply and
Sanitation 2008
Assessment
2.4 billion to
improved
sanitation
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Scarcity of
Year 2025
Abstraction increases by
50% in developing
countries
Drinkable Water
Worsen the
ecosystems
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1,085,000 to
2,187,000 deaths
Health in 2008
water,
sanitation and
hygiene’ risk
factor
90% children under
five
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Water Withdrawal Uses
Worldwide
70% for agriculture
22% for
industry and
8% for
domestic
services
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integrity of freeflowing rivers
threatened
60% of the world’s 227
largest rivers are
strongly to moderately
fragmented by dams,
diversions and canals,
and a high rate of dam
construction in the
developing
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global warming
effects
rises in the ocean level (in
the range of 0.09 to 0.88
metres for the same period)
and, as a consequence of
the availability of more
energy in the climate
system, an intensification of
the global hydrological
cycle.
Water Resources Problems and Issues
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