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Document The United Nations: World Water Development Report

Challenges to Life and Well-Being:

Challenge 1: Basic Needs and the Right to Health 11
Lead agency: WHO
Collaborating agency: UNICEF

Challenge 2: Protecting Ecosystems for People and Planet 13
Lead agency: UNEP
Collaborating agencies: UNECE / WHO / UNCBD / UNESCO / UNDESA / UNU

Challenge 3: Cities: Competing Needs in an Urban Environment 15
Lead agencies: UN – HABITAT
Collaborating agencies: WHO and UNDESA

Challenge 4: Securing Food for a Growing World Population 17
Lead agency: FAO
Collaborating agencies: WHO / UNEP / IAEA

Challenge 5: Promoting Cleaner Industry for Everyone’s Benefit 19
Lead agency: UNIDO
Collaborating agencies: WHO and UNDESA

Challenge 6: Developing Energy to Meet Development Needs 21
Lead agency: UNIDO
Collaborating agencies: WHO / UNEP / Regional Commissions / World Bank

Creator Secretariat:c/o UNESCO/Division of Water Sciences, 1, rue Miollis, ; -75732 Paris Cedex 15 Tel.: +33 1 45 68 39 28 / Fax: +33 1 45 68 58 29 (email: wwap@unesco.org)
Publisher Secretariat:c/o UNESCO/Division of Water Sciences, 1, rue Miollis, ; -75732 Paris Cedex 15 Tel.: +33 1 45 68 39 28 / Fax: +33 1 45 68 58 29
Type of document Report
Rights Public
File link http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001295/129556e.pdf
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Source of information UNESCO/WWAP
Keyword(s) Water Development
Subject(s) AGRICULTURE , DRINKING WATER , DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION : COMMON PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION AND TREATMENT , HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , PREVENTION AND NUISANCES POLLUTION , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY , SANITATION -STRICT PURIFICATION PROCESSES , WATER DEMAND , WATER QUALITY
Geographical coverage n/a
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