Contributing Actions to the United Nations System-wide Strategy for Water and Sanitation

Development and sharing of knowledge-base on the impacts of global change and human usage on river and lake basins, aquifer systems, coastal areas, and cryosphere...

Development and sharing of methods and tools based on new practices by the scientific community supported to translate scientific information into a format facilitating education...

UNDRR provides normative support through the Words into Action (WiA), which are thematic guides for the implementation of the Sendai Framework and the integration of...

The policy brief will scope the water-related climate challenges impacting Asia and the Pacific and discuss the potential for water cooperation in strengthening climate adaptation...

Promoting water and transboundary water cooperation in climate change adaptation.

Inland capture fisheries are impacted by external factors like hydropower, land use changes, and urbanization, often managed at basin levels. To ensure fisheries are included...

WHO produces international norms on water quality and human health in the form of guidelines that are used as the basis for regulation and standard...

Globally, nearly two billion people use either unimproved drinking-water sources or improved sources that are faecally-contaminated causing close to half a million diarrhoeal deaths in...

Safe and climate resilient sanitation systems are fundamental to protect public health. WHO supports capacity building and implementation through guidelines and tools on sanitation and...

Water and its recreational use have long been recognized as major influences of health and well-being. Clean, well-managed recreational water sites – be they oceans...