A framework for 21st century water risk management

The report identifies trends in corporate and investor responses to emerging water issues—and explains how investors can identify holdings in their portfolios more likely to be exposed to water-related risks. Finally, it identifies the critical challenges companies face in managing water-related risks and the key elements of effective 21st century corporate water management.

Population pressures and climate change exacerbate water risks and their accompanying bottom-line impacts. Some companies are taking action to recognize and act on these risks, but many are not. The French government recently banned the practice of shale oil and gas fracturing, largely due to concerns over the process’s impacts on water quality. After years of exploration and investment in a large gold mine in El Salvador, Canadian firm Pacific Rim was denied the final permit for the project in 2009 due largely to farmer complaints that its operations were drying up local rivers. Population pressures and climate change exacerbate water risks and their accompanying bottom-line impacts. Some companies are taking action to recognize and act on these risks, but many are not.
http://www.ceres.org/resources/reports/aqua-gauge 

ALSO READ UGANDA'S NATIONAL WATER DEVELOPMENT PROJECT:
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001467/146760e.pdf

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International Water Management Institute (IWMI) research reports

Bellow are research reports from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI).

• Farmer-based financing of operations in the Niger Valley irrigation schemes
• Bailout with white revolution or sink deeper?: groundwater depletion and impacts in the Moga District of Punjab, India
• Low-cost options for reducing consumer health risks from farm to fork where crops are irrigated with polluted water in West Africa
• Shallow groundwater in the Atankwidi Catchment of the White Volta Basin: current status and future sustainability
• An assessment of crop water productivity in the Indus and Ganges River Basins: current status and scope for improvement
• Impacts of climate change on water resources and agriculture in Sri Lanka: a review and preliminary vulnerability mapping
• Wetlands, agriculture and poverty reduction
• Climate change impacts and adaptation in Nepal.

http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/Publications/IWMI_Research_Reports/ 

See Photos of dying Lake Victoria(Nalubale)

The attached photos of a dying Lake Victoria are picked from Lake Victoria Shore -
Interesting- i asked several people who I found at Garuga exactly as I did at Imperial Botanical Gardens Entebbe -
Question: what has happened to the water

Answer: At Garuga a teacher told me that probably someone had pour green oil paint in the water!
Answer: Ggaba Landing site a fisher man - that was Mukasa - a sort of natural an unexplainable phenomenon with sequenced occurance
Answer: Imperial Botanical Gardens - fish food maybe!

The truth is that all so called beaches on lake Victoria  are polluted with
- Fecal pollutants
- High levels of phosphates from flowering farms
- Nutrient Load  from drainage channels - Nakivubo

all the above are necessitating toxic algae blooming -   a result of NRM industrailisation process!

Read this article in the Daily Monitor-

Uganda’s unsafe water, abrupt power outages

Daniel Bwanika

www.idrc-ug.com