EQ2

Question 1

What does the future of water supply depend on?

Answer 1

Development
Extraction
Water resource use
Environmental problems too

Question 2

What impact will water insecurity have on water conflict?

Answer 2

Demand will overtake supply
Several stakeholder want to use same resource
Competing demands for irrigation, power generation, domestic use, recreation and conservation
Developing countries getting involved raises more concerns

Question 3

What is hydro politics?

Answer 3

Water geopolitics

Question 4

What will hydro politics involve?

Answer 4

Requires international agreements and treaties
Pacts on supply, distribution and use
Water diplomacy
Trans boundary river disputes

Question 5

Why are transboundary river disputes such a problem?

Answer 5

• No solution from international law as laws often contradict each others
• Upstream assert right of territorial sovereignty that it is their water so their decision on use
• Downstream clam territorial integrity that it is their right to receive same amount and quality as have had it in the past

Question 6

What does the Helsinki principle state?

Answer 6

International treaties must include concepts such as ‘equitable use’ or ‘equitable share’ and be applied to whole drainage basins not single countries

Question 7

What should water sharing be based upon?

Answer 7

Natural Factors (rainfall, water source, share of basin)
Social and Economic needs (pop. size, development and welfare)
Downstream Impacts (flow restricted, water table lowered, pollution)
Dependency (alterative sources available?)
Prior Use (Past use or potential future use)
Efficiency (Avoiding waste and mismanagement)

Question 8

What does water transfer mean?

Answer 8

Large scale river diversions or construction of large canals from one basin to another