Eponline.com: Researchers Argue that Water Scarcity is an Issue of Politics Rather Than Supply

“The basin perspective is critical in order to assess the upstream and downstream impacts of water allocation policies, and to determine opportunities for optimizing the sum of benefits across many residents,” said Dennis Wichelns, Deputy Director General at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), which was a major partner in the research.The researchers contrast the poor use of water resources within river basins observed in many areas – which they refer to as “dead spots” for agriculture development – to “bright spots” of water efficiency. They said bright spots can be found in the large areas of the Ganges, Nile and Yellow River basins, where farmers and governments have responded to development challenges by vastly improving the amount of food produced from available water.

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