Question

What is mean by fragile water resources?

Answer 1

Although more than 70 per cent of the blue planet, our home, is covered with water, access to safe and clean water has become a major challenge to sustainable development. Facing ever-increasing demand and suffering widespread degradation, the world’s water resources are under serious stress. This often debases the quality of life for many and, indeed extreme cases, threatens the vital life-supporting infrastructures of our planet – as UNEP and other United Nations bodies have warned. So we need to take care of the water resources as it is vital to the human life and it is fragile