Approximately 850 million people worldwide are malnourished. About a billion people have no access to safe drinking water. Forty million people are infected with HIV/AIDS, 95% of whom live in developing countries. More than a billion people worldwide are living on less than a dollar a day. One in six people are illiterate.

 

Global Water Partnership - The Global Water Partnership is a working partnership among all those involved in water management: government agencies, public institutions, private companies, professional organizations, multilateral development agencies and others committed to the Dublin-Rio principles.

International Water Management Institute is a nonprofit scientific research organization focusing on the sustainable use of water and land resources in agriculture and on the water needs of developing countries.

UNESCO Water Portal - The UNESCO Water Portal is intended to enhance access to information related to freshwater available on the World Wide Web

Water Aid - WaterAid is an international NGO dedicated exclusively to the provision of safe domestic water, sanitation and hygiene education to the world's poorest people.

The Water Page (The African Water Page) - The mission of The Water Page is: To provide a quality service to the public and the water sector at local, national and international levels, through which sustainable water resources protection, development and utilisation is promoted. To provide independent and critical comment on and analysis of water issues. To specifically promote sound water resources management and water related public health issues (water supply and sanitation) in developing countries.

Water Environment Federation (WEF) - a not-for-profit technical and educational organization with members from varied disciplines who work toward the WEF vision of preservation and enhancement of the global water environment

World Water Council - The World Water Council is the International Water Policy Think Tank dedicated to strengthening the world water movement for an improved management of the world's water resources and water services.

World Water Cycle - water-cycle diagram (150 kilobytes) available in many languages. Text summaries available for some languages

World Water Day - an initiative that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro