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The water stress is spreading

Four days after the first presentation in Cape Town, UNDP in Macedonia presented the Human Development Report 2006 at the beginning of November, entitled “Energy, poverty and global crisis in waters management”, according to which our country is in 66th place in the world, among the other things with a high index of lifestyle and low index of enrolling children to schools in comparison with the Balkans countries.

630 thousand people in Macedonia do not have any access to quality water and 1.1 billion people face that problem in the world every day. Poor countries have the lowest access; they pay the nature’s gift most expensively and suffer most damages.

These and a number of other new data illustrate the level of people’s awareness on the computerized planet Earth, the direction towards which we are moving and merciless grabbing at the beginning of this century. The repost shall turn the attention of governments, civil society organizations, and local self-governments to the need for raising the awareness for rational use and water management, whose lack is conditioned by political reasons, too.

It is projected that by 2025 about 3 billion people will live in countries with water stress. Where we will be depends on our wisdom. The stress resulting from lack of water cannot be compared with the more actual stress resulting from a lack of new car, TV, perfume or office furniture. The race to comforts that multiply every day leaves indelible traces. No water could wash them away.