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Admire
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Water. Productive Water Use As A Tool For Attaining Millenium Development Goals
October 26, 2005 - 10:00 AM
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Water can be used as a tool for alleviating poverty and attaining the Millenium Development Goals and related targets. Apart from using water in farming, which accounts for 70 percent of global freshwater withdrawal, how can rural communities engage in water productively to earn income?. What opportunities does access to water presents to them?
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Re: Water. Productive Water Use As A Tool For Attaining Millenium Development Goals
November 30, 2005 - 01:21 AM
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To me, an obvious use of water beyond farming is as a commodity. It can be sold or bartered to others to quench thirst.
Having an at-risk population certainly increases water’s value. A man in a desert has a greater need than one swimming in a lake!
Sorry if this simplistically sounds like blatant capitalism. It is not. But sometimes there is a need for a reality check of available resources and how to best (and most wisely) utilize them for the common good.
The farm use of water should not be overlooked. However, not as a macrofarm utilization (which is where most of the water is used and wasted by spraying it in the air or running through open ditches), but through microfarming and hydroponics use.
30 to 40% of a family's nutritional needs can be met by microfarming in an area as small as an apartment's balcony. The best resource that I have found for how to do this is the Institute of Simplified Hydroponics: http://www.carbon.org/.
The ISP has affiliates in Mexico, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Peru, Senegal, Venezuela, Canada, Zimbabwe and Uganda.
I have many of ISH’s papers and treatises, if you are interested.
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January 20, 2006 - 08:57 AM
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thanks for the comments. i would like to see the report.can you send them to me.
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