Traduction de «capacité des réservoirs d'eau douce » (Français → Anglais) :

4. Points out that natural disasters, exacerbated by climate change, are highly destabilising, particularly for vulnerable states; notes, however, that so far no case of conflict can be exclusively attributed to climate change; stresses that populations with deteriorating access to freshwater and foodstuffs caused by natural catastrophes exacerbated by climate change are forced to migrate, thus overstretching the economic, social and administrative capabilities of already fragile regions or failing states, thereby creating conflict ...[+++]and having a negative impact on overall security; recalls that these events create competition between communities and countries for scarce resources;

40. Calls on the Commission to work, as part of the CAP reform and the Water Framework Directive, towards better irrigation and water drainage and storage systems for agriculture that use water more efficiently and that include improving water storage capacities in soils, water harvesting in dry areas and water drainage in moist areas, as a way of reducing the use of fresh water and also as a precaution against changes in rainfall patterns due to climate change;

40. Calls on the Commission to work, as part of the CAP reform and the Water Framework Directive, towards better irrigation and water drainage and storage systems for agriculture that use water more efficiently and that include improving water storage capacities in soils, water harvesting in dry areas and water drainage in moist areas, as a way of reducing the use of fresh water and also as a precaution against changes in rainfall patterns due to climate change;

It is very important for this region to have a strategy, not only because of the need to create a transport corridor and connection between the North Sea and the Black Sea, but also because this region is the greatest reservoir of fresh drinking water in Europe.

5. Specifically supports the development of a global action plan on access to safe freshwater, based on principles of integrated river basin management; considers, in more general terms, that sustainable management should be a feature of policies on water from all sources and for all uses and therefore has to play an important role in WSSD; considers, moreover, that a policy which embraces all these factors should be embodied in an international water management charter to ensure access to sufficient and clean water as a fundamental human right; in this context, welcomes the EU global water initiative, focussing o ...[+++]n capacity-building and development of regional co-operation in African water policies, and asks the Commission and the Member States to provide sufficient funding to guarantee its success;

This approach is all the more intriguing, troublesome, because the Minister of Environment, in recalling that the international joint commission said, following its study, that the Great Lakes basin must be protected because there is only 1% of this enormous expanse of freshwater that is renewable—the rest is not renewable, being what was left behind after the glaciers melted—says that it is the greatest freshwater basin in the world.