Benefits from water stewardship include watershed protection and conservation; expanding community drinking water and sanitation access; and improving water for productive use.
It promotes conservation, expands energy supplies (including renewable energies like wind, solar, biomass and geothermal) and addresses our beleaguered energy infrastructure.
The area under conservation has expanded during the process, from under 300,000 to 440,000 square kilometres, nearly the size of Sweden.Kaza encompasses over 20 existing conservation areas and national parks including Victoria Falls, a UNESCO World Heritage site shared by Zambia and Zimbabwe and by some measures the world's largest waterfall, and the Okavango delta in Botswana.
The administration's policy argues that all farmers would benefit if federal farm aid shifted from its singular focus on commodity subsidies and instead helped underwrite greater access to foreign markets, more conservation programs, expanded research into pest and disease control and better infrastructure.
As the historian Dominic Sandbrook has written, the report "called for federal assistance and public works in areas suffering from chronic unemployment, national standards of unemployment insurance, action to fight racial and other discrimination, a youth conservation corps, expanded vocational training and federal funding for retraining the jobless".
The two sides differ over whether energy salvation lies in conservation or expanded production; in renewable or depletable energy resources; and in small-scale, decentralized energy sources or in large, centralized systems.
The need for ecosystem-wide monitoring has become more pressing as the goals of conservation have expanded from saving endangered species and national parks to sustaining biological diversity, ecosystem function and ecological services [1], [2], [3].
There are plans for a refurbished Aquatheater, a new conservation hall and an expanded marine conservation program.
Most of the adjustment to higher oil prices will take place through private initiative, but the government can help the private sector in a variety of ways, such as helping develop alternative-energy technologies and new methods of conservation and expanding the availability of public transit.
Critics point out, with some justification, that California's energy strategy of focusing on conservation and expanding intermittent sources of renewable energy while ignoring the urgent need for more base-load generating capacity close to big cities was the primary cause of the grid failure.
