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Growing cities place strain on water and sanitation, experts warn
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 22 - 08 - 2011


How best to provide clean water and sanitation
to the world's cities and their expanding slums is the overriding
theme of World Water Week, which opened Monday in Stockholm, dpa reported.
"More than 800 million people live in slums where water-related
diseases such as diarrhoea, malaria and cholera have devastating
effects on the livelihood of families and the economies of their
countries," said Anders Berntell, head of the Stockholm International
Water Institute, co-hosts of the conference.
Berntell reminded delegates about how ancient city civilizations
along the Indus river were able to provide clean water, public baths
and sanitation to their inhabitants.
The lack of such facilities in today's cities is, therefore, a
matter of "political will and priorities ... since the solutions
existed 3,500 years ago," he said.
Berntnell also warned that unless there is a change in policy,
water demand could in a few decades outstrip supply, giving rise to
further tension between rural and urban areas.
According to UN Habitat, a United Nations agency that works with
housing, about half the world's population currently lives in urban
areas. However, that proportion is set to reach two-thirds by 2050.
Meanwhile, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), a pressure group, has
just published a report highlighting the strain on water resources
placed by a growing number of megacities - cities with more than 10
million inhabitants - in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Sheela Patel of the organization Shack-Slum Dwellers
International, called on officials to listen to the needs of the
urban poor when designing water solutions. Joan Clos of UN Habitat,
for his part, warned that since slums cannot simply be bulldozed
away, there should be "dialogue" between city planners and slum
dwellers on how to "upgrade the slums."
Another speaker at the conference opening was US researcher Steven
Carpenter, winner of the 2011 Stockholm Water Prize for his research
on lake ecosystems.
The annual 150,000-dollar award was created in 1990 to recognize
achievements in water science, water management, water action and
awareness building.


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