Freshwater use by sector at the beginning of the 2000sOpen
Water Scarcity IndexOpen
Suspended sediment dischargeOpen
Industrial areas and seasonal zones of oxygen depleted watersOpen
Planet index 2007 for marine species populationOpen
Renewable surface water produced internallyOpen
Total population: access to an improved water sourceOpen
Who will not reach the water and sanitation millennium development goal?Open
Lake Chad: almost goneOpen
Water competition between cities and agricultureOpen
Relative demographic weight for each continentOpen
Global waterstress and scarcityOpen
The coming water scarcity in AfricaOpen
Increasing price with volumeOpen
Biological oxygen demand - BOD: 1976-2008Open
State of world fisheries and aquacultureOpen
World's surface water: evaporation and runoffOpen
Inequity in access to clean water and sanitationOpen
Sea level rise and assessment of the state of the marine environmentOpen
Total population: access to sanitationOpen
The WWF living planet index for freshwaterOpen
A World of SaltOpen
Freshwater alkalinity: 1976-2008Open
Freshwater resources: volume by continentOpen
Dependency ratio in renewable waterOpen
Water - cooperation or conflict?Open
Estimated Residence time of water resourcesOpen
Benefits of marine and coastal ecosystems to human wellbeingOpen
Water withdrawal and consumption: the big gapOpen
Public services provide cheaper waterOpen
The disappearance of the Aral SeaOpen
Coral reefs at risksOpen
Poor and rich: inequal demographic evolutionOpen
The decline of cod in the North AtlanticOpen
When the city harms its own water resourcesOpen
Fish protein world consumptionOpen
Tigris and Euphrates rivers fragmentationOpen
Excessive withdrawal of renewable water resourcesOpen
The water cycleOpen
Trends in capture fisheries and aquacultureOpen
Increased global water stressOpen
Trends in global water use by sectorOpen
World population evolutionOpen
The spread of cholera 1950-2004Open
Impact of sea level rise on the Nile deltaOpen
The Mekong River - survival for millionsOpen
Human actions leading to coastal degradationOpen
Dissolved phosphate levels: concentrations at river mouthsOpen
Fragmentation and regulation of riversOpen
Transboundary water governance - averting conflictOpen
Africa’s rivers and lake basins cross many bordersOpen
Fishing yieldOpen
World fish consumption per capita and per yearOpen
Coastal populations and shoreline degradationOpen
The contribution of climate change to declining water availabilityOpen
Runoff-TypewriterOpen
Water storage capacity for selected countriesOpen
Fish diversity in freshwater systemsOpen
Water supply per river basin in 1995 and 2025Open
More water evaporates from reservoirs than is consumed by humansOpen
Main world’s river basinsOpen
Marine species diversityOpen
Damming the worldOpen
Impact of sea level rise in BangladeshOpen
Cereal productivity in sub-Saharan Africa under a projected Intergovernamental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scenarioOpen
Nitrate levels: concentrations at river mouthsOpen

Vital Water Graphics 2

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has been at the forefront of assessing and monitoring global water resources and presenting information on their use and management for 30 years. UNEP has compiled this report in order to provide an easily accessible resource on the state of the world’s waters. The goal of this publication is…

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