Will African water be secured in the future?
Over the past few months, I have been exploring about the threats posed on African water systems, including land use/cover changes, demographic change and climate change impact on water.
Personally, it was very intriguing to find diverse sources emphasising the extensive impacts of land use/cover changes in Africa - which is one of the areas with most rapid urbanisation across the world - on water balance system. Although great amount of studies on impacts of climate change exist in the academic discourse, I felt that the case studies and analyses of land use change in Africa are relatively less, which may due to insufficient data collection in many African regions. Also, it seems to me that if we want to project the future of African water system, diverse factors (not only topics mentioned in previous posts but also other factors like national irrigation schemes) should be integrated in examination.
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