ABSTRACT
One in four people live in areas with insufficient water to support them. This means that water is being used at an unsustainable level, with rivers running dry, underground aquifers being drained to make up the shortfall, and energy being used to desalinate water. Throughout much of Sub-Saharan Africa, even where water is available, the infrastructure needed to get it to people is absent or poorly maintained. As a result, countries that are comparatively well off in water actually use relatively little. The problem is not the availability of the resource, but a shortfall in the ability to govern its use so as to benefit the majority of people. https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315065953/7bf0213c-a136-4311-af98-6f56ec81a0c2/content/pg110-1_B.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
