Keywords
Needs, water stress, sustainable development, waste, millennium goals for development, objectives of sustainable development, transcendent satisfaction, sanitation, access to drinking water, satisfaction, happiness
How to Cite
KANDALAFT, J.-P. (2018). Sustainable development and the problem of water. Proche-Orient Études En Management, 30, 69-87. Retrieved from https://journals.usj.edu.lb/poem/article/view/441
Abstract
The Sustainable Development concept has emerged at a time when governments, businesses, economists and non-governmental organizations were seeking excessive economic growth, heedless of resource squandering, environmental and climate change problems, and finally social equity.
Envisaging the welfare of future generations, without compromising that of current generations, is an equitable principle and a laudable ideal, but what about the current and future welfare of poor countries enduring water stress? Is “development” conceivable for a country that is practically lacking access to water and sanitation? Where does Sustainable Development stand in the face of this problem?