El Agua
Las montañas no son simples reservorios de agua, almacenando agua en forma de glaciares, nieve, humedales, lagos y depósitos subterráneos.
Como proveedoras de agua dulce para más de la mitad de la humanidad, las montañas son de importancia estratégica para la agricultura, la seguridad alimentaria y la biodiversidad.
Se extraen anualmente alrededor de 4000 kilómetros cúbicos de agua dulce–equivalente a aproximadamente 1700 litros por persona y día. Pero el agua para la agricultura es por mucho, la mayor categoría de extracción.
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MRD: Call for papers on "Water Governance in Mountains"news2013 will be the International Year of Water Cooperation. For its August 2013 issue, the Mountain Research and Development (MRD) is seeking papers presenting well-validated policy and practice-oriented insights for supporting improved water governance in mountains (Mountain Development section), and papers that analyze water governance, its implications on people and...
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