What, other than climate change, can affect future water availability?
Climate change is only one of many factors that will determine future patterns of water availability and use. In some countries, other factors, such as population growth and land management, may be far more significant and critical than climate change. For this reason, the impact of climate change on water should be put within the context of the broader development agenda. What’s the impact of water and climate change on food production and prices? Water availability is critical for food production, and will become even more so in the future, but it has not received the attention it needs. We’re finding that many countries are moving forward with accelerated food production, mostly through irrigated agriculture, to take advantage of high prices, without giving serious consideration to the availability of water. If this practice continues, water will soon become a limiting factor for food production as a basic staple for the general public in some countries. The impact of that will be f
