Africa Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Nov - Dec Vol. 9 No.6 | Page 18

Water Management

Better Water Management Needed to Eradicate Poverty
Analysis by Torgny Holmgren Edited by Kitty Stapp
girls from school and women from productive work.
On a larger scale, it keeps societies and economies from
developing.
Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) is firmly
advocating for a dedicated Sustainable Development Goal
(SDG) on Water in the Post-2015 development agenda. A
water goal needs to address several key aspects of human
development. It is needed for health.
By 2050, business-as-usual will mean two billion
smallholder farmers, key managers and users of rainwater,
eking out a living at the mercy of rainfall that is even less
reliable than today due to climate change.

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t demands repetition: water is a precondition for all life.
It keeps us alive – literally – while being a prerequisite
for or integral part of most of our daily activities. Think
hospitals without water, think farms, energy producers,
industries, schools and homes without our most needed
resource. All sectors, without ^