نظرة عن المياه 2025 !

How did the world make so much progress in 25 years?

Five adjustments were crucial. The water crisis became widely recognised.

Land and water resource management became integrated—

with full stakeholder representation. Water services became subject

to full-cost pricing. Innovation and public funding for research increased.

And cooperation in international basins grew.

Our Vision of Water and Life in 2025

• Less disease

• Better nutrition

• Wiser management

• More powerful communities

• Higher farm yields

Many of the water-related diseases rampant at the end of the

20th century have been conquered. Revitalised international

efforts to meet people’s basic water and sanitation require-

ments have been combined with effective promotion of

hygiene practices. Better primary health care and pollution

control have greatly reduced the prevalence and severity of

many diseases. Scientists around the world continue to iden-

tify links between cancers and chemical contamination of

water, along with new methods for preventing and removing

the contamination.

Water services are planned for sustainability, and good man-

agement, transparency, and accountability are now the stan-

dard. Inexpensive water-efficient equipment is widely

available. Rainwater harvesting is broadly applied. Municipal

water supplies are supplemented by extensive use of

reclaimed urban wastewater for nonpotable uses (and even

for potable uses in seriously water-short urban areas). On

small islands and in some dry coastal areas, desalination aug-

ments the water supply. Many cities and towns use low- or

no-water sanitation systems, for which communities and local

authorities manage the collection and composting services.

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