Coming off the world’s celebration of sustainability of the natural resources on World Water Day earlier this month, a new report from the United Nations suggests an urgent need to better manage the world’s water supply, or the planet could suffer a 40 percent shortfall in water in just 15 years.
This conclusion was reached in the 2015 United Nations World Water Development Report, “Water for a Sustainable World,” released Friday in New Delhi, India. According to the UN, the report is a collaboration between the 31 agencies of the UN system and the 37 international partners that make up UN-Water. It was produced by the World Water Assessment Program (WWAP), hosted by UNESCO.