Water management schemes and how it helps to improve people’s quality of life
Water management schemes are all the schemes in general that provides water to people, for example; water transfer schemes are one of the many water management schemes, water transfer schemes are projects that collect water from areas that have a higher rainfall and divert it to areas that have a greater need and a higher demand for water. Water is collected and stored in reservoirs for further use.
Another example of water management schemes is sanitation systems which are in order for those who do not have access to appropriate sanitation.
Overall, the water management scheme is a scheme that ensures that everybody has access to clean water and sanitation.

Water is one of the most important natural resources which are essential for ALL living things. Water is used for drinking, washing, cooking and irrigation. There is only 3% of pure water in the world, that we can drink, 2% of that water is stored in icebergs, if the demand for water continues to increase at rapid rates; the access to water will become more difficult. Figure 1

In figure 1, the more successful countries which are MEDC’s and the more urbanised areas such as the USA, Canada Australia, Italy and France show that the more water they use per capita.
They have the access to clean water, so they tend to take advantage of it and waste more, whereas the countries that have little access to clean water tend to manage their water more efficiently and usefully and not use it for insignificant things.
For example; water usage for the USA (MEDC) is 1550m³ per capita a year, whereas in chad (LEDC) the total water usage per capita is 20m³ per year.

Figure 2
Total usage of water in the UK, USA, Bangladesh and Malawi

In figure 2 you can see that the UK, which is an MEDC, uses most of its water for