
The IWMI research estimates that up to 499 million people in Africa and India could benefit from improved agricultural water management. "Just as modern consumers diversify their financial holdings to reduce risk, smallholder farmers need a wide array of 'water accounts' to provide a buffer against climate change impacts," Matthew McCartney, a hydrologist at IWMI, said in a statement. "That way, if one water source goes dry, they'll have others to fall back on."
The U.N. panel of climate experts has projected more extreme weather such as droughts, floods and heatwaves this century, caused by global warming. The report said that, despite a great expansion in irrigation in recent decades in Asia, around 66 percent of agriculture there is still dependent on rainfall. In sub-Saharan Africa, the proportion is even greater at 94 percent, it said. These are the regions where water storage infrastructure is least developed….
A rainbow in the Philippines, shot outside his house by Dico Calingal, Wikimedia Commons, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license
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