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The Real Challenges to“ Access to Water ” are not Hydro Technical, but Hydro Political

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Written by Dursun Yıldız

Eylül 21, 2019

SUMMARY
While World was changing in international relationship rapidly, little attention has been paid to real access to water challenges.
This paper first reviews water related challenges together with consequences of it . It also discusses the ongoing changing in natural climate and approaching threats. We aim to addresses the risk of climate and water related mass migration and emerging importance of water diplomacy.
We conclude with a discussion of the real challenges are not hydro technical but hydro political.
That directly contradicts the some considerations and assumptions on ongoing water challenges .
Keywords: Water Politics ; Hydro Politics; Water Challange;
1.INTRODUCTION
For the past several years, water has consistently been named as a leading risk in the World Economic Forum’s annual survey of global leaders, and newspapers worldwide are awash with stories warning of a water crisis.
Is the world really facing a water crisis ? It is not easy to respond as Yes to this question but we can easly say that uncerainities are coming towards to especially low income societies.It can be considered a kind of crisis related with water.

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SUMMARY
While World was changing in international relationship rapidly, little attention has been paid to real access to water challenges.
This paper first reviews water related challenges together with consequences of it . It also discusses the ongoing changing in natural climate and approaching threats. We aim to addresses the risk of climate and water related mass migration and emerging importance of water diplomacy.
We conclude with a discussion of the real challenges are not hydro technical but hydro political.
That directly contradicts the some considerations and assumptions on ongoing water challenges .
Keywords: Water Politics ; Hydro Politics; Water Challange;
1.INTRODUCTION
For the past several years, water has consistently been named as a leading risk in the World Economic Forum’s annual survey of global leaders, and newspapers worldwide are awash with stories warning of a water crisis.
Is the world really facing a water crisis ? It is not easy to respond as Yes to this question but we can easly say that uncerainities are coming towards to especially low income societies.It can be considered a kind of crisis related with water.

to read full article please click on

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Dursun Yıldız

İTÜ mezunu İnşaat Mühendisi ve Su Politikaları Uzmanı. DSİ bünyesinde uzun yıllar Şube Müdürlüğü ve Daire Başkan Yardımcılığı yapmıştır. Hidropolitik, su ve enerji politikaları alanında yayımlanmış çok sayıda kitap, rapor ve makalesi bulunmaktadır; TEMA Bilim Kurulu üyesidir.

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