Current Status and Future Trends in Freshwater Management.

Water is vital for the life and health of people and ecosystems and a basic requirement for the development of countries, but many people lack access to adequate and safe water to meet their most basic needs. Water resources and their related ecosystems are now under threat from pollution, unsustainable use, climate change and many other forces. The World Water Forum series has been likened to a series of stepping stones towards the solution of the world's pressing water problems. Each step constitutes a new phase. The 3rd World Water Forum takes up the World Water Vision created at the 2nd World Water Forum in The Hague in 2000, and sets out to see that vision realized in concrete actions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]