Knowledge base: World water development report 4 (WWDR4) - Volume 2
This report contains the most current information available concerning the state of knowledge about our water resources and covering the most recent developments that affect it and also provides decision-makers with concrete examples of approaches and potential responses for addressing water-related challenges from both a water management perspective and a broader political and sectoral scope, which covers development, financing, capacity-building and institutional reform. Volume 2 contains chapters made up with fourteen challenge area reports, five regional reports and three special reports, as well as supplementary material and a multitude of comments from partners, reviewers and the general public over three years.
This volume include:
Challenge area reports:
- State of the resource: quantity
- State of the resource: quality
- Human settlements
- Managing water along the livestock value chain
- The global nexus of energy and water
- Freshwater for industry
- Ecosystems
- Allocating water
- Valuing water
- Investing in water infrastructure, its operation and its maintenance
- Water and institutional change: Responding to present and future uncertainty
- Developing knowledge and capacity
- Water-related disasters
- Desertification, land degradation and drought and their impacts on water resources in the drylands
Regional reports:
- Africa
- Europe and North America
- Asia and the Pacific
- Latin America and the Caribbean
- Arab region and Western Asia
Special reports:
- Water and health
- Water and gender
- Groundwater