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Such value-added infrastructure generates benefits by recharging groundwater, controlling floods and providing ecosystem servicesIt’s essential to life on Earth.
Consider that over the last two decades, each of us on earth has lost approximately one-fifth of the freshwater available to us.Unless we act urgently, we are on course to increase our water use by more than a third by 2050 globally, given our planet’s growing population.Rapid population growth, urbanization, industrialization, economic development, and the climate crisis have all taken a toll on our water resources.
Water governance and tenure, water pricing, regulations, and incentive measures, are needed to drive change and ensure equitable access to clean and safe water resources. In Sri Lanka and Zambia, for example, FAO is piloting multifunctional paddy fields for fish and shrimp farming, in addition to rice production.We can and must do more, together, with all the various actors making their distinct, yet inter-related contributions.
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