UN Agencies Addressing the Issue of Freshwater

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is the official UN agency that leads the issue of Freshwater at the UN: http://www.wateryear2003.org or http://www.unesco.org/water.

Other UN agencies directly involved with this issue are:

United Nations Development Program (UNDP): http://www.undp.org/seed/water/climate.htm

United Nation’s Children’s Fund (UNICEF): http://www.unicef.org/programme/wes

United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP): http://freshwater.unep.net/

Division for Sustainable Development: http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/agenda21.htm

and http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/tsfwm.htm.