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Vital Water Graphics - United Nations Environment Programme
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United Nations Environment Programme

 
Vital Water Graphics
An overview of the world's fresh and marine waters
   

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has been at the forefront of assessing and monitoring global water resources and presenting information on their use and management for 30 years. UNEP has compiled this report in order to provide an easily accessible resource on the state of the world's waters. The goal of this publication is to produce a clear overview, through a set of graphics, maps and other illustrations, of the state of the world's fresh and marine waters. It also illustrates the causes, effects, trends and threats facing our water sources, with examples of areas of major concern and future scenarios for the use and management of fresh, coastal and marine waters.


Global freshwater consumption rose sixfold between 1900 and 1995 - more than twice the rate of population growth. About one third of the world's population already lives in countries considered to be 'water stressed' - that is, where consumption exceeds 10% of total supply. If present trends continue, two out of every three people on Earth will live in that condition by 2025.

-- Kofi Annan, in We The Peoples, 2000

  

About this report

Foreword

Executive summary

Freshwater resources

Water use and management

Problems related to freshwater resources

Coastal and marine waters

References

Links to websites related to water issues

Credits

List of institutions and organisations

High-resolution (eps format) images


 

 

 

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