Libération (France, 19/20 Jan.): 'Un des grands défis du millénaire' [in French]

Space Time Today (Nepal, 18 Dec.): 'Water for all'

Earth Times News (6 Dec.): 'Shared water resources: a source of cooperation not conflict'

Earth Times News (3 Dec.): 'A program to work together on water'

UNESCO Sources (13 Nov.): 'World water crisis?'

International Network of Basins Organization - INBO [PDF format]

UNESCO Courier: 'Taking stock to better move ahead'

UNESCO Director General message: [About the WWDR] 'For the first time, national decision-makers, non-governmental organizations and ordinary citizens will have access to a regular assessment of the global and regional water situation.'

UN Secretary-General message: 'The organizations of the United Nations system... in addition to a vast array of operational projects are also preparing the first edition of the World Water Development Report.'

UN Secretary-General message: 'Now adopted by the United Nations as a systemwide programme, the WWAP brings worldwide attention to the critical, but often overlooked, role of water within human development.'

UNESCO Director General message: 'One year ago today... UNESCO, with its sights now on water for human development, announced a World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP), since adopted by the entire UN system with twenty-two agencies involved.'

UNESCO Director General message, at the Closing Session of the Second World Water Forum: 'The UN World Water Assessment Programme will soon be launched with its Secretariat housed at UNESCO.'