Etika air dan Pimpinan: menghitung Masing-masing Penurunan

Bayangkan hidup tanpa air. Kami hampir tidak pernah berpikir, kami mungkin bangun satu pagi dan tidak menemukan air atau malah mengetahui bahwa kami mesti membayar untuk mendapat penurunan. Kami cenderung berpikir adalah tanggung jawab pemerintah tetapi sebenarnya kita semua mempunyai tugas penting untuk bermain. Kekurangan air meningkat karena over-permintaan karena pertumbuhan penduduk dan kemajuan ekonomi bergabung dengan pengaturan buruk sumber penghasilan air.

Negara Arab mewakili 10% world’s permukaan dengan pembuatan penduduk sampai 5% world’s penduduk. Masih dunia Arab hanya mempunyai 0,5% dunia dapat diperbarui freshwater sumber penghasilan. Ini ialah sebagian besar karena kersang dan cuaca semi-kersang menguasai 82,2% dari daerah utuh. Dari 2228 milyar meter kubik hujan curah hujan itu 90,4% dari air hilang karena penguapan. Lagi, daerah menyaksikan pertumbuhan penduduk kilat dan ganti iklim yang menambah kekurangan air. Ini merupakan ancaman serius sampai stabilitas.

Penelitian Global dan Ethical Network Embracing Water (MEMPERBARUI) dibuat pada 2001 sebagai sebagian UNESCO’s World Commission atas Etika Ilmu Pengetahuan dan Teknologi (COMEST). MEMPERBARUI mempunyai tiga nodes melayani tiga daerah: Bergen di Skandinavia, Canberra di Asia Tenggara dan Pasifik dan Kairo yang melayani Mesir, negara Arab dan Lembah Sungai Nil.

Regional Center for Research dan Penelitian Air memakai Etika (RCWE) Mesir adalah yang ketiga node RENEW Network. Bekerja untuk berkembang dan mendukung penelitian, studi dan latihan serta promosi kesadaran dan bahan kependidikan atas etika penggunaan air ke daerah Arab dan Afrika.

Laporan RCWE kepada panitia yang lebih tinggi menuju oleh wanita pertama Mesir. Pusat memperkembangkan kitab undang-undang air etika untuk distribusi umum dalam waktu dekat. Menguraikan konsep penggunaan etis sumber penghasilan air dan menyediakan garis pedoman dan meteran atas banyak sedikitnya janji ke etis kelakuan. Juga menyediakan contoh untuk meningkatkan sosial dan ekonomi tanggung jawab atas penggunaan air dan pimpinan.

“This kode adalah bayangan pendekatan kebudayaan untuk uang kembalian di kelakuan terhadap penggunaan efisien setiap penurunan water” His Excellency Ambassador Dr. Magdy Hefny yang dikomentari Direktur Regional Center for Research dan Penelitian Air memakai Etika (RCWE).

“The paling hebat tantangan kami muka hari ini akan optimize keuntungan atas setiap penurunan air dan ke selai kualitasnya. Soal ini memerlukan kebudayaan yang berdasarkan janji untuk berurusan dengan air di jiwa sosial tanggung jawab. Dipertimbangkan sebagai sebagian kontrak sosial yang menjamin partisipasi pihak yang berkepentingan berbagai di semua tahap perencanaan dan keputusan-making” mengatakan Dr Hefny.

Dengan bilangan menguatirkan seperti itu ada keperluan untuk menjadi pro-aktif dan untuk mulai mematuhi kelakuan kami sendiri di penggunaan sumber penghasilan jarang dan berharga ini. Pembuat keputusan juga perlu mempertimbangkan dan memeriksa kebijakan yang mempengaruhi penggunaan air.

According to Dr. Hefny, “RCWE vision is to actualize water use ethics among various stakeholders and to serve as a center for learning by using information, technology and networking. Formulating indicators and standards of responsible social conduct in relation to water use is a priority. A monitor was created highlighting the most important aspects and issues relating to water use ethics and research.”

We need to bring things that are on paper to life. As human beings we need to have a sense of shared responsibility for problems that affect humanity such as water scarcity. Being aware and more responsible in the way we use resources like water is essential and cannot be put aside at this point.

When we talk about ethics it is hard to define as it is a term that is interpreted differently in different cultures. For this reason, the term social responsibility is often used today as it is more specific and also gives way to accountability.

“If we come to talk about water ethics, it could be defined as the behavior of water users. If this behavior is good and in conformity with the law, tradition and the value system then this behavior is considered ethical” commented Dr. Hefny.

“Ethics are considered to be the moral component of decisions taken as well by people who are managing the water sector. These persons need to have ethical water behavior and should consider moral aspects including the fact that every human being has the right to water. Access to water should include the marginalized and also the poor. It should not be dealt with as a commodity influenced by market forces (supply and demand) and thus should never be priced as some persons may be denied their right if unable to pay” added Dr. Hefny.

Pricing water would be a disaster as some people will end up denied one of their basic human rights, the right to water. We are thus left with only one choice which is to change our own behavior so that we can ensure water will continue to be available for the future generation for no price.

“We need to concentrate our efforts on the new generation of young people and also on children. This means that water ethics needs to be included in school curriculums. Women need to be educated on the uses of water so that they influence the future as well. The media has a major role to play in disseminating information to the public” said Dr. Hefny.

“If we are careful and create more projects to conserve water and if we manage to re-use ground water, we can preserve it and even increase it. We need to promote water ethics and affect the generation of today by rationalizing their use so that resources can be sustained for the future” added Dr. Hefny.

Ultimately, no matter what this means to us and who we view as responsible, we are in fact all responsible at least at the individual level. Whether it is a problem we sense in the midst of several others that maybe more important to us, we need to always remember our children and remember that water is life. Water is not there to stay. We need to think and change our own behavior and ethics in its use before it is too late.