POL340Y1 Lecture Notes - United Nations Convention On The Law Of The Sea
24 Jun 2013
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Only about 1% of world water is drinkable. Growing global population (currently 7 billion, in the year 2050 9 bil) Where are we going to get the additional water, given that water is already a scarce resource for some states. Some states are water poor and getting more stressed (india, middle east) 1/7 of the world"s population does not have access to clean water. In many dev areas, the sanitation systems are crude, gets into water sheds and wells and fresh water sources, like lakes. General point: water is the most important human rights issues in the world and crisis of the issue if only going to increase. Took the un until 2010 (july) that water is a human right. Once the un makes a major issues out of a topic tends to galvanize pub opinion around the issue, there is a stop light on the issue. Puts more pressure on govts and ngos to focus more on the topic.
