Water conflicts are invariably shaped by local factors. But the sheer scale of these conflicts makes it impossible to dismiss them as isolated events. What we are dealing with is a global crisis generated by decades of gross mismanagement of water resources. The facts behind the crisis tell their own story. By 2025, more than two billion people are expected to live in countries that find it difficult or impossible to mobilize the water resources needed to meet the needs of agriculture, industry and households. Population growth, urbanization and the rapid development of manufacturing industries are relentlessly increasing demand for finite water resources
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This booklet aims to highlight the key waterrelated challenges developing countries face,give examples of approaches that have worked based on the experience of UNDP and its partners, and make recommendations concerning policy.
Through a documentation of experiences from select countries in the Asia-Pacific region, thesecase studies endeavors to demonstrate how various rights-based approaches/strategies have been used by developmental agencies and civil society groups, including by nongovernmentalorganizations (NGOs), community- based organizations (CBOs) and citizens to successfully demand and claim rights for, and in participation with such poor, vulnerable and marginalized groups groups, often in conditions that can at best be termed challenging or at times, even inhospitable.
In Health, Dignity, and Development: What Will It Take? the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Water and Sanitation emphasizes that achieving the water and sanitation target and investingin water infrastructure and management are crucial to the achievement of all the Millennium Development Goals—a key point that is echoed in Investing in Development.
