Water resources

• Water for health - taking charge (2001)
• Vision 2030: The resilience of water supply and sanitation in the face of climate change (2010)
  The WHO/DFID Vision 2030 study aims to increase our understanding of how anticipated climate change may affect drinking-water and sanitation systems and what can be done to optimize resilience of infrastructure and services.
• UN-Water Global Annual Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS)
• GEO4: Chapter 4 Water (2007) [pdf 1.87Mb]
  Reviews the pressures causing changes in the state of the Earth’s water environment in the context of global and regional drivers. It describes the state-and-trends in changes in the water environment, including its ecosystems and their fish stocks, emphasizing the last 20 years, and the impacts of changes on the environment and human well-being at local to global scales.
• World Water Development Report: Water in a Changing World (WWDR-3) (2009)
  The WWDR is a joint effort of the 26 UN agencies and entities which make up UN-Water, working in partnership with governments, international organizations, non-governmental organizations and other stakeholders.
• World Water Development Report (WWDR-2) CHAPTER 6: Protecting and Promoting Human Health [pdf 892kb]
  WHO & UNICEF present how the state of human health is inextricably linked to a range of water-related conditions: safe drinking water, adequate sanitation, minimized burden of water-related disease and healthy freshwater ecosystems.