Blog 8 - Concluding thoughts
Over the course of these blogs, the dynamics of politics involved with water supply and provision have been explored. The role of governments, private companies and citizens have all been explored during these blogs with the aim of providing the reader with a sense of the factors at play with how water is provided, through a political lens. The overarching theme from all the blogs is how a government (or indeed governments) can best provide for the needs of their populations and the best solutions for the problems at hand now and in the future. Let us recap what has been covered: Climate change projections and initiatives to mitigate against said risks, the case for and against privatisation of water supplies, an insight into transboundary waters and the conflict and latterly the cooperation that it entails and lastly the idea of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) and its' applicability to Africa. Climate Change: In the 2 blogs done on climate change, we examined the