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POTENTIAL OF FRESH WATER SUPPLY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Abstract

One of the global crises that hit Earth through the last decades is the obvious shortage and waste of fresh water. Unfortunately, countries miss used its fresh water resources which affected negatively its inhabitants and ecosystem. Science of landscape architecture succeeded in finding solutions to improve the usage of fresh water, on local and regional scales. This paper therefore aims to detect these solutions and approaches that could be applied to functioning fresh water resources. Valuable case studies will be examined on international level in Netherlands and Singapore, to analyze their approaches. This paper will test how these approaches can be applied in Lebanon. One of the most important conclusions is water development and water management will be important for Lebanon and the developing countries to have fresh water in the future.

Author(s)

Dr. Youssef, Maged