{"id":94079,"date":"2020-04-03T12:30:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T12:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=94079"},"modified":"2020-04-03T12:30:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T12:30:56","slug":"world-water-development-report-wwdr-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/world-water-development-report-wwdr-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"World Water Development Report (WWDR 2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Consider the following statements:<\/strong><br> (1)    World Water Development Report  is produced annually by the UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme(WWAP) .<br> (2)    World Water Development Report (WWDR 2020) is entitled \u2018Water and Climate Change\u2019.<br><strong> Choose the correct:<br> <\/strong>(a)    Only(1)<br> (b)    Only(2)<br> (c)    Both (1) and (2)<br> (d)    None of the above<br> <strong>Answer:(c)<br> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The&nbsp;2020\nedition of the World Water Development Report&nbsp;(WWDR 2020) has been\npublished entitled \u2018Water and Climate Change\u2019.<\/li><li>According\nto the report, Global food production patterns would be fundamentally altered\nby climate change, causing food insecurity because of small shifts in\nseasonality and water availability.<\/li><li>In\nIndia, 100 per cent of the land dedicated to rice cultivation, 91 per cent of\nland for maize and 80 per cent for soybean would face wetter conditions within\nthe next 40 years.<\/li><li>An\nincrease in demand for calories from low and middle-income countries would\ncause an increase in production.<\/li><li>The\n2020 United Nations World Water Development Report focuses on the challenges,\nopportunities and potential responses to climate change, in terms of\nadaptation, mitigation and improved resilience that can be addressed through\nimproving water management.<\/li><li>The\nreport emphasizes that combining climate change adaptation and mitigation,\nthrough water, is a win-win proposal, improving the provision of water supply\nand sanitation services and combating both the causes and impacts of climate\nchange, including disaster risk reduction.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>World\nWater Development Report:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The\nreport is produced annually by the UNESCO World Water Assessment\nProgramme(WWAP) and released by UN-Water.<\/li><li>Its\naim is at helping the water community to tackle the challenges of climate\nchange and informing the climate change community about the opportunities that\nimproved water management offers in terms of adaptation and mitigation.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.unesco.org\/node\/317634\">https:\/\/en.unesco.org\/node\/317634<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/world\/climate-change-to-affect-water-availability-alter-food-production-un-report-69911\">https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/world\/climate-change-to-affect-water-availability-alter-food-production-un-report-69911<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2018Water and Climate Change\u2019. Choose the correct: (a) Only(1) (b) Only(2) (c) Both (1) and (2) (d) None of the above Answer:(c) Related facts: The&nbsp;2020 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}