Can’t Find the World’s Half Clean Water in 2080
18. 11.2008 CNN Turkish
]It was reported that half of the world’s population will face the problem of finding clean water in 2080 due to climate change.
[[T]]Asya-Pasifik said Prof. Wong Poh Poh Poh from Singapore National University teaching members speaking at Regional Water Conference, decreasing the chance of finding drinking water of global warming, which disrupts the flow shapes of water, reduces floods, drought and storms. [ [Wong reminded that the UN Intergovernmental First Change Panel was reached by 2 billion people to obtain clean water as of 2050, and this number was expected to reach 3.2 billion in 2080.
Wong, which attracts attention to being the most critical continent in the water of Asia, where 4 million people live, has particularly dense population, noted that India and China had a big trouble on clean water sources. Wong said that "in Asia where water is not distributed fairly" in large areas of water shortage and the first change of change will increase this trouble further.
Wong and other speakers, in the short run, they called to sign the Kyoto Climate Convention to fight global warming and protect water resources.
Wong stated that in the long run, governments must build infrastructure that will protect the coastal regions, improve the administration of water basins and acquire new technologies to improve the availability and reliability of water resources. [
The United Nations has launched the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 with the signature of 183 states.
Instant in the present form of 37 industrial countries to regulate harmful gas emissions. The U.S. refused its plan with the reason that it would damage the economy although it is the country that produces more greenhouse gas in the world.
Some emerging countries among China and India have not agreed to agree that they will block their developments.
]Source: News