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World Water Assessment Programme
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<p>The UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme (UNESCO WWAP) was founded in 2000 in response to a call from the UN <a href="/facts/Commission_on_Sustainable_Development/tr4MgsVQ">Commission on Sustainable Development</a> (CSD) to produce a UN system-wide periodic global overview of the status (quantity and quality), use and management of freshwater resources. To meet this challenge, WWAP coordinates the work of 31 <a href="/facts/UN-Water/Yn2ldDxs">UN-Water</a> members and international partners, under the umbrella mechanism of UN-Water, in the production of the <a href="/facts/UN_World_Water_Development_Report/7nMgKWay">World Water Development Report</a> (WWDR). The WWDR is the UN flagship report on water issues; it is a comprehensive review, released every year with a different focus on different strategic water issues, that gives an overall picture of the state, use and management of the world’s freshwater resources and aims to provide decision-makers with tools to formulate and implement sustainable water policies. </p>