To support these global goals, in recent years the UK National Commission for UNESCO (UKNC) Scotland Committee has focused on water treatment and sanitation, water quality and water management in International Development.

UNESCO: Water Policy and Science

They include water supply and sewerage, including abstraction and impounding of water, resources management, water quality, the water industry, water charges, safety of reservoirs and so on.

BBC: Highly politicised liquid assets

In developing the thematic area, UNESCO is a leader in the areas of: transboundary surface and groundwater, water quality, integrated water resource management and climate change adaptation and water.

UNESCO: at the Sixth World Water Forum

Without the appropriate management of wetlands there is no water of the right quality and quantity, where and when it is needed.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

The challenge of the Decade is to focus attention on action-oriented activities and policies that ensure the long-term sustainable management of water resources, in terms of both quantity and quality, and include measures to improve sanitation.

UNESCO: OFFICE IN TASHKENT

The film highlights key water quality problems such as lack of access to safe water and sanitation, inefficient wastewater management in urban areas, water pollution caused by intensive use of nutrients and chemicals in agriculture, the invisible threat of new and emerging pollutants in water and the economic costs of water quality degradation.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

Improving management of national forests to put more emphasis on recreation, wildlife and water quality and less on logging.

CNN: Clinton Marks Earth Day With Trail Project

Improving water resource management, increasing access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation and promoting hygiene can improve the quality of life of billions of individuals, as well as reduce child mortality, improve maternal health and cut the incidence of waterborne diseases.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES