Question: Consider the following statements:
(1) World Water Development Report is produced annually by the UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme(WWAP) .
(2) World Water Development Report (WWDR 2020) is entitled ‘Water and Climate Change’.
Choose the correct:
(a) Only(1)
(b) Only(2)
(c) Both (1) and (2)
(d) None of the above
Answer:(c)
Related facts:
- The 2020 edition of the World Water Development Report (WWDR 2020) has been published entitled ‘Water and Climate Change’.
- According to the report, Global food production patterns would be fundamentally altered by climate change, causing food insecurity because of small shifts in seasonality and water availability.
- In India, 100 per cent of the land dedicated to rice cultivation, 91 per cent of land for maize and 80 per cent for soybean would face wetter conditions within the next 40 years.
- An increase in demand for calories from low and middle-income countries would cause an increase in production.
- The 2020 United Nations World Water Development Report focuses on the challenges, opportunities and potential responses to climate change, in terms of adaptation, mitigation and improved resilience that can be addressed through improving water management.
- The report emphasizes that combining climate change adaptation and mitigation, through water, is a win-win proposal, improving the provision of water supply and sanitation services and combating both the causes and impacts of climate change, including disaster risk reduction.
World Water Development Report:
- The report is produced annually by the UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme(WWAP) and released by UN-Water.
- Its aim is at helping the water community to tackle the challenges of climate change and informing the climate change community about the opportunities that improved water management offers in terms of adaptation and mitigation.
Links:
https://en.unesco.org/node/317634
https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/world/climate-change-to-affect-water-availability-alter-food-production-un-report-69911