Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Freshwater Conservation Challenges - Coggle Diagram
Freshwater Conservation Challenges
Water waste (leaks & faulty infrastructure)
Green infrastructure
Helps to protect and restore the natural water cycle
Perceived unreliability and lack of information regarding management
Reduces urban heat islands, reduces pollution, carbon capture
Governments allocating a budget to improve water infrastructure
Improved infrastructure can lead to better freshwater managemnet, and less water being wasted due to outdated or unreliable infrastructure
Unanimous political support, support from local communties, lack of resources & funding
70% of freshwater dedicated to agriculture
Permaculture
Encourages innovative solutions to conserving water
Not everyone has access to their own land or the ability to have sovereignty over their food
Adapting agriculture to produce only what makes ecological sense in a specific region/ environment
Less water is needed to produce native crops and environment specific crops
Facing big agriculture and finding a solution which benefits the companies that back them as well.
Scarcity
Desalinization of ocean & brackish water
Costly & requires a large amount of energy
Has the potential to convert ocean water into usable freshwater in water vulnerable areas
Improved conservation of water currently available
Individual awareness about the global effect of overconsumption and water waste in affluent communties where the most water is consumed
Creating effective policy, restrictions, and outreach strategies that will reach communities and have an effect on individual patterns of consumption.
Valuing water
The poor have to carry the greatest burden
How t o value something that is seemingly invaluable