Water for a sustainable world: the UN world water development report 2015

The report elaborates upon the future of water towards 2050 by describing how water supports healthy and prosperous human communities, including through measures that reduce vulnerability and improve resilience to water-related disasters such as flood and drought management approaches, maintains well-functioning ecosystems and ecological services, and provides a cornerstone for short and long-term economic development.

It provides an overview of the challenges, issues and trends in terms of water resources, their use and water-related services like water supply and sanitation, and it explains how some governments have been working towards better integrating disaster risk reduction into development strategies through their development plans.

The report also offers, in a rigorous yet accessible manner, guidance about how to address these challenges and to seize the opportunities that sound water management provides in order to achieve and maintain economic, social and environmental sustainability.