出版社：United Nations Environment Programme, Division of Technology, Industry, and Economics
摘要：Avast change is taking place in the world¡¯s
water policy and management landscape,
the extent and magnitude of which neither
the water nor development professions has ever
witnessed. An objective, comprehensive review of
the latest and foreseeable trends indicates that the
world of water management will change more
during the next 20 years than it did in the previous
2000. Many of the important drivers of this
change will come from outside the water sector
and, unlike recent and past experience, the water
profession will have limited or no control over
them. Hence, water professionals will have to
react to these changes very quickly.
Among the drivers of change are globalization,
technological developments, the communications
and information revolution, and the changing
nature of water problems and their solutions in
different parts of the world. Implications of some
of these can be foreseen, though they are basically
being ignored now. In other cases, such as the
communications and information revolution, it is
very difficult to know, on the basis of existing
knowledge and experience, how some of these
developments will affect the water sector. But all
these new and emerging factors will radically alter
water use, availability and management practices.
