Waterways to Resilience: Nature-Based Solutions for Adaptation in Africa

World Wide Fund (WWF)

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Abstract: The people and economies of Africa confront a range of water-management challenges,including risks from degraded water quality,water scarcity and drought,flooding from both rivers and from stormwater within cities,and coastal erosion and flooding. For much of the continent,these challenges are projected to increase due to climate change over the next several decades â?? a period in which the continentâ??s population is forecast to increase by approximately one billion people.