So how important is politics for water?
Over the last 7 or so blogs, we've looked at a series of issues, linked to case studies in different regions of Africa. In many of the blogs, politics and the leaders in the regions and situations discussed have been at the centre of the story. But just how important is politics in relation to water management? Credits: Getty Global Change Hydropolitics is significant for a number of reasons, but the most important argument is not based so much within past case studies, but in the future of the African continent. Africa, particularly the sub-saharan (SS) region, is facing a bleak outlook from IPCC scenarios of climate change. Furthermore, the interaction of projected climate change with the wider context of global change is going to make the management of water supplies and frameworks of the next 30 years for water management crucial to the region. Global change refers to the interaction of climatic and socioeconomic factors in shaping the global profile of the f
