UNEP

• UNEP Water Policy and Strategy
  The new water policy mentions, among its conceptual principles, social and economic development and poverty reduction issues and recommends that, where privatization of water services is adopted, regulatory, legal and institutional frameworks are put in place to ensure the protection of natural resources and that the poor are not negatively affected.
• Water Security and Ecosystem Services - The Critical Connection 
• Rainwater Harvesting : A Lifeline for Human Well-being 
• World Water Development Report (46 MB)
• Dialogue Paper: Integrated Water Resources Management in Action

UNEP-DHI Centre

• Securing Water for Ecosystems and Human Well-being: The Importance of Environmental Flows 
• Rainwater harvesting as a cost-efficient tool to protect vulnerable ecosystems: The Giber case 
• Roadmaps for water management in West Africa (18 MB)
• Climate Change Adaptation and Water Resources Management in Africa (CC DARE) 
• Addressing Environmental Aspects and Ecosystem Issues in Integrated Water Resources Management
• Sustainable Management of Lake Basins in the Context of IWRM 
• A Structure for the Monitoring of Processes Leading Towards IWRM   
• Case book IWRM 2005 
• From Concept to Practice - Key Features, Lessons Learned and Recommendations from Implementation of the IWRM 2005 Target 
• Ecosystem Approaches in Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) (A Review of Transboundary River Basins) 
• Report on IWRM in Transboundary Basins 

UN Water

• Status Report on Integrated Water Resources Management and Water Efficiency Plans 
  The report aims to illustrate progress made on meeting the target to "Develop integrated water resources managment and water efficiency plans by 2005, with support to developing countries, through actions at all levels" agreed at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WWSD) in Johannesburg in 2002, through the Johannesburg Plan of Implemetation (JPoI).
• Dialogue Paper: Integrated Water Resources Management in Action 
• UN Water Policy Brief on Climate Change (2010) 
• UN Water Policy Brief on Water Quality
• UN Water: Status Report on Integrated Water Resources Management and Water Efficiency Plans (2008)