World Water Assessment Programme and UN-Habitat have released a joint Briefing Note 'Water for sustainable urban human settlements' highlighting critical water challenges related to today's unprecedented urban expansion

This special report brings together messages on water and climate change from the UN World Water Development Report 3( WWDR3) Water in a Changing World.

Drawing on the evidence presented in the WWDR3, this paper restates the mounting evidence in many regions of the impact of climate change on the earth

This paper is in two parts. The first part presents a brief review of progress made since the Water Action Plan was agreed at the 2003 G8 Summit in Evian, France. It includes an introduction to some of the key themes of the United Nations World Water Development Report 3: Water in a Changing World.