vendredi 12 novembre 2010

Water ! How to make your conscience aware of the complexity ?

What best manner to realize a subject is tricky than by being involved in it?

That is the reason why our class was confronted with a realistic problem, namely a water management problem in phnom penh (Cambodia), in order to raise our conscience to the difficulties which exists in getting everyone to agree. I have to say it was not such a big issue during the course, because we were taking the role for only 2 hours, and that we were not real specialists in the subjects treated, so our verve was not so high. We rapidly agreed and were really open to other propositions, trying to get everyone happy. I'm afraid this should not be the case in reality, first of all because people should put their own interests in priority.

however, it was also good to realize which actors are affecting those discussions. unfortunately, 2 hours was a little bit less to fully conclude these discussions.

I found it surprising to hear in the little clip showed about the water problem in Phnom Penh the next sentence:

Rich people don't want to pay for water, because they think everything is due to them

This shows the mentality of people facing the water problem, and the idea that water is not so precious, but just an available resource. I think work should be done in those countries to give some value to water, to make it precious, to raise people conscience.

1 commentaire:

  1. See also this study in Kenya:
    http://www.twaweza.org/index.php?i=446

    Most often it is the poor who pay more for the water.

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