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The changing water cycle: Freshwater in the Congo
WIREs Water ( IF 6.8 ) Pub Date : 2020-01-19 , DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1410
Bila‐Isia Inogwabini _{1,

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Climate change in Africa is manifesting itself in the distribution and quantities of freshwater which are becoming serious security issues. Central Africa, particularly the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with its abundant water, is caught in the middle of strategies to curb future effects of droughts, water scarcity and flooding across Africa. This article reviewed the current status of water and related biodiversity in DRC using a political economy, biological data and available social knowledge. Freshwaters hold the potentials to significantly contribute to the economy of DRC. However, fish stocks in some stretches of the Congo River are fished at intensities that exceed their productivity potential; water depths are decreasing in some others. Sources of the freshwaters of the Congo Basin cross borders of many countries but proper transboundary management plans to support cross‐border sustainable management of freshwaters are lacking. Stakeholders do not own freshwater sustainable management plans; growing populations and the drying up of large portions of Africa make that freshwater of the Congo, rather than being a uniting factor of the region, instead a security threat that Congo River Basin countries need to care about immediately. Caution should prevail in ways in which the freshwaters of the Congo Basin are exploited. Particularly, lack of in‐depth ecological knowledge about the biology and the mechanics of the Congo Basin's freshwaters call for careful scrutiny of the idea to export the freshwaters of Congo to refill the Lake Chad Basin as suggested by some politicians, since this could lead to an unprecedented ecological cataclysm.

中文翻译：

不断变化的水循环：刚果的淡水

非洲的气候变化正在以淡水的分布和数量为特征，这正成为严重的安全问题。中部非洲，特别是刚果民主共和国（DRC）拥有丰富的水资源，陷入了遏制整个非洲干旱，水资源短缺和洪水的未来影响的战略中间。本文使用政治经济学，生物学数据和现有的社会知识，回顾了刚果民主共和国水资源和相关生物多样性的现状。淡水具有为刚果民主共和国经济做出重大贡献的潜力。但是，刚果河某些地区的鱼类种群的捕捞强度超过了其生产力潜力。其他一些地方的水深正在减少。刚果盆地的淡水水源跨越许多国家，但缺乏支持跨境可持续淡水管理的适当跨界管理计划。利益相关者不拥有淡水可持续管理计划；人口的增长和非洲大部分地区的干旱使刚果的淡水成为该地区的一个统一因素，而不是该地区的统一因素，而是刚果河流域国家必须立即关注的安全威胁。在开采刚果盆地的淡水时应格外小心。尤其是，缺乏对刚果盆地淡水的生物学和力学的生态学知识的深入了解，导致一些政治家建议对出口刚果淡水以补充乍得湖盆地的想法进行仔细审查，

更新日期：2020-01-19

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