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The Key Water Indicator Portal is online!
UN-Water has created a portal to view maps, tables, and charts on indicators, at either country or global level, as well as additional geographic information. This portal is easy to operate and puts additional details one click away.

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Statistics
This section presents some examples of statistics related to water. It is by no means complete at this point. UN-Water is currently working on the identification of a set of key indicators for the water sector that can be used at a global, regional and national level. The information on this page will be updated regularly to reflect the progress made in this area.
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Water and Urbanization
Every second, the urban population grows by 2 people.

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Water and Climate Change
Water is the primary medium through which climate change impacts the earth's ecosystem and people.
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Water Resources
The total volume of water on Earth is about 1.4 billion km3. The volume of freshwater resources is   around 35 million km3, or about 2.5 percent of the total volume.
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Water Use
The world's six billion people are appropriating 54 percent of all the accessible freshwater contained in rivers, lakes and underground aquifers.
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Drinking Water and Sanitation
The UN suggests that each person needs 20-50 litres of water a day to ensure their basic needs for drinking, cooking and cleaning.
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Water, Agriculture and Food Security
The daily drinking water requirement per person is 2-4 litres, but it takes 2 000 to 5 000 litres of water to produce one person's daily food.
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Water pollution and environmental degradation
In developing countries, 70 percent of industrial wastes are dumped untreated into waters where they pollute the usable water supply.
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Water and disasters
Some 373 natural disasters killed over 296,800 people in 2010, affecting nearly 208 million others and costing nearly US$110 billion
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Transboundary waters
148 countries include territory within one or more transboundary river basins. 39 countries have more than 90% of their territory within one or more transboundary river basins.
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