GRID-Arendal Annual Report 2002

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GRID-Arendal Annual Report 2002 Section 2 Program report

Capacity Building

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Carto(graphics)® at GRID-Arendal

GRID-Arendal has evolved into a world leader in environmental carto(graphics)®, with an annual output of hundreds of maps, graphs and illustrations covering most environmental issues. GRID-Arendal is also coordinating the production of UNEP’s vital graphics® packages, to provide a minimal amount of information about an issue in an attractive format (graphics) to facilitate decision-making. In 2002, two vital graphics® series were published: Water Management in the World and Climate Change in Africa . The carto(graphic) team was also instrumental in publishing the Environment & Poverty Times . Information products from GRID-Arendal were published in the Norwegian and international press.

km 3 per year

Top 20 water consumers per capita

km 3

km 3

2 500

Assessment

Forecast

Assessment

Forecast

3 500

3 500

Withdrawal

Consumption

1 000 to 1 800 m 3

3 000

3 000

2 250

1 800 to 3 000 m 3

2 500

2 500

5 900 to 8 100 m 3

2 000

2 000

2 000

1 500

1 500

Asia North America Europe Africa South America Australia and Oceania

1 750

Water use at the end of the 1990s

1 000

1 000

500

500

1 500

Withdrawal

Consumption

0 1900 1925 1950 1975 2000 2025

0

1900 1925 1950 1975 2000 2025

1 250

1 000

750

500

Europe

250

North America

Asia

0

Africa

South America

Australia and Oceania

PHILIPPE REKACEWICZ, MARCH 2002

Graphic from the Vital Water Graphics package showing global water withdrawal and consumption.