The United Nations World Water Development Report: Water in a Changing World

The current Report provides a comprehensive analysis of the state of the world’s freshwater resources. It also, for the first time, shows how changes in water demand and supply are affected by and affect other global dynamics.

A major theme of this Report is that important decisions affecting water management are made outside the water sector and are driven by external, largely unpredictable forces – forces of demography, climate change, the global economy, changing societal values and norms, technological innovation, laws and customs and financial markets.