According to Zaporozec (2002) stated that the ‘looming water crisis’ is becoming a major issue on the world agenda for the twenty-first century. The World Water Council presented the ‘World Water Vision’ during the Second World Water Forum and Ministerial Conference at The Hague in March 2000 (Cosgrove and Rijsberman, 2000). The Vision reported that 1.2 billion people or one fifth of the world population do not have access to safe drinking water, while half of the world population lack adequate sanitation. The Vision document further states that ‘rapidly growing cities, burgeoning industries, and rapidly rising use of chemicals in agriculture have undermined the quality of many rivers, lakes, and aquifers’ and also emphasises that ‘the impacts of agriculture on water quality are less visible over time but at least as dangerous (as industrial), because many of the fertilisers, pesticides, and herbicides used to improve agricultural productivity slowly accumulate in groundwater aquifers and natural ecosystems.’
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