Africa Needs To Strengthen The Threat Of Climate Change On Water Resources

The new policy brief released that used to predictthe function of water supply facilities, will also affect
climate change on drinking water and Sewagethe operation and management of water resources.
Management models need to address the impact ofSea-level rise will affect low-lying coastal areas and
global warming due to water-related diseases causedflooding of the ground water aquifers, and reduce
by the factors.the availability of freshwater resources. It is
"We need to model the development of these moreestimated that by 2030, due to climate change,
in-depth study to help decision-making, reducediarrheal disease in some countries, the risks will
uncertainty and increase the valuable Monitoringincrease by 10%.
equipment . "Ke Ruini Chinese Morris (CorinneWallace)"Overall, the water treatment plant and deployment
said that since she is one from the International Unionof systems in the year when construction is in
University on the water Environment And Healthaccordance with the specific climate events can resist
Network's chief water health researcher in the field,the return period or probability (eg, floods once
but also the author of a new policy brief.every hundred years) or so. In the changing climatic
"These efforts combined with water-relatedconditions Under such a return period is likely to
diseases, vulnerability assessment map can form thechange, increased water and wastewater
basis for policy development argument," she said,infrastructure system is the possibility of damage and
"We need to continue to develop the model hasfrequency. Presentation ofsaid, we need to increase
been applied to predict the climate change on drinkingwater and sanitation service input to climate change.
water and sewage treatment facilities , waterFloods can also affect chemical storage and Sewage
availability, water quality and water-borne disease orTreatment Equipment Endanger the safety of water
the impact of water-related diseases. "supply quality.
Projected results can be used to strengthen theSea-level rise will affect coastal and low-lying areas of
policy, intervention, adaptation and mitigationgroundwater aquifers, thereby reducing the supply of
purposes, but also determine the effect of thedrinking water. 2030, a number of countries in the
completion of the Millennium Development Goals andregion due to climate change the incidence of
the global migration patterns.diarrhea will be higher than 10%.
Briefing pointed out that people think that climateAs water stress or increased food insecurity caused
change can be brought to many parts of the moreby more immigration means that the disease will be
frequent and more intense rainfall, leading totransferred from one region to other areas in the
activation of pathogens and other sources of floodingnew place they may or may not survive, are likely to
and shallow groundwater flow.expose people to In the face of new diseases.
Higher temperature also may change the rate of"However, the different levels of policy and
reproduction of various pathogens, survival, andimplementation and does not reflect the reality
infectious. "Even if not directly endanger the health ofprinciple." The authors say.
the ecosystem, but these threats have a"Learn ways to improve drinking water can be
devastating effect, indirectly, a threat to waterreduced at least 25% of diarrhea and water-borne
supplies."disease; improved sanitation facilities, along with at
Union University, said the briefing, theleast 30% decline in child mortality. The challenge of
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)global emergency is available in the real achievements
have suggested global warming will not only affectin the policy is feasible and ethically important.