The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and some 20 multidisciplinary partner institutions, including several UN-Water members and partners have collaborated to establish the HelpDesk for Integrated Flood Management (IFM HelpDesk). The HelpDesk provides demand-driven guidance to all countries working on integrated flood management policy, strategy and development. | 
Photos are crucial to deepening our understanding of water-related issues and for building effective advocacy campaigns to promote wise water use. Many UN-Water members and partners have set up on line photo galleries and image banks to illustrate the work they are doing. We have now posted a page with links to these photo galleries.
Avinash Tyagi is the Director of the Climate and Water Department (CLW) of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the coordinator for the UN-Water Task Force on Climate Change. We asked him about the Task Force’s work and the upcoming major climate events: the World Climate Conference -3 (WCC-3) and the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP 15) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
"We need to strengthen the capacity of users in the water sector to understand and apply available scientific information on climate variability and change. But this isn’t easy."
