Even if we are able to increase water productivity, there are major challenges ahead. With an increasing population and its welfare, expected spatial and temporal changes in water availability due to climate change, and the need to restore our aquatic ecosystems, we are facing a huge task while the easy solutions are already being implemented. While the challenges to ensure this sustainable are:
- Create broad-based awareness of aquatic ecosystem
- Regulate water diversion and pollution by corporate consumers
- Proactive management of water quality and ecosystem impacts at project level
- Invest in low-cost recycling
- Focus on water quality and health management
- Urban wastewater recycling
- Control of groundwater depletion
- Zero or minimal discharge water economy
- Reduce carbon footprint