Preferred term
Water security
Broader concept
Broader conceptScope note
Notes about the usage and scope of the concept.- Capacity of a population to safeguard access to adequate quantities of water of acceptable quality for sustaining human and ecosystem health on a watershed basis, and to ensure efficient protection of life and property against water-related hazards – floods, landslides, land subsidence and droughts.
In other languages
Terms for the concept in other languages.Arabic
French
- Sécurité de l’eau
- Sécurité hydrique
Russian
- Безопасность водных ресурсов
- безопасность воды
- Водная безопасность
Spanish
URI
http://vocabularies.unesco.org/thesaurus/concept17124