Many of the world now that place does not suffer flood Mianlin droughts, International Water Management Institute director Colin Charles Waters in this exclusive interview, commented that both Shui Taiduohaishi little water, and climate change are the affect the water crisis has become a key climate change issues.

Charters are going to attend the World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden Forum on the eve of a press interview in London, while the impact of climate change on water is on the 5th World Water Week opened a forum to discuss a hot topic.

Charters said: "I think climate change is happening, but now global action to mitigate climate change is not satisfactory, it must face the reality, focus on how to adapt to climate change. But in saying circulated among a peer If - if the key is to mitigate climate change oil, so the key is to adaptation to climate change of water. "

This is because many of the problems caused by climate change are water-related, such as the temperature increases will lead to faster water evaporation, uneven distribution of rainfall, rising sea levels. Qi Zhong two of the most prominent problem is too much and sometimes too little water, You Shi, Yi Xie local rainfall and Chu Xian Yin Tai Liang flood, if the present Pakistan; the other in some places rain caused Gan Han Zhang Qi Bu, Biru fall to this summer from Qunian China Xinan region suffered a drought.

Charters that in these two aspects, the sudden flood caused by heavy rainfall more difficult to prevent. For example, in a number of monsoon climate region, often several times in a row in the rainy season, heavy rainfall, flood storage reservoir storage capacity is reached after more difficult to play the role. This should be taken to protect soil and vegetation and other comprehensive measures to make rain water absorbed in the surface to some extent, will not import the river floods, quickly.

In contrast, he considered it more easy to implement ways to deal with water shortage. For example you can build all kinds of water storage facilities, in addition to large reservoirs, there are areas in need can also build a small pond and reservoir; also can improve agricultural practices, the water consumption to water-saving drip irrigation; also recycling waste water to fill over-extraction of groundwater.

Charters led International Water Management Institute Water Week forum in the world to publish a report calling for people to invest more funds to help build water storage facilities.

Charters stressed that: "The water shortages will lead to poor harvests, and the world's population growth has made the rising demand for food, so from the perspective of food security, water scarcity is a big problem."

In particular, he noted that countries in the water reserves on the serious imbalance, the reserve of water resources in African countries, a few cubic meters per person to dozens of one cubic meter, while the United States up to each Shuqian cubic meters of water reserves. This makes African countries heavily dependent on agricultural production, natural precipitation, if climate change led to reduced rainfall, African countries may therefore suffer serious water crisis and may thus lead to the food crisis.

Charters said: "In the face of uncertain climate change, water reserves will be an important adaptation measure." Him and the International Water Management Institute's experts have put forward 6 suggestions that the collection of hydrological data, protection of the environment, reform the system of water, change water for agricultural production methods, better management of urban water, pay attention to water resources management in the protection of vulnerable groups.

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