Balancing competing water uses--a necessity for sustainable development.
The UNEP Water Policy and Strategy emphasises the need for environmentally sustainable water use as a key to sustainable development, including poverty reduction. The development of UNEP programmes over the years has produced an integrated, comprehensive and dynamic approach to competing water uses.
UNEP, United Nations Avenue, Gigiri, P.O. Box 80552, Nairobi, Kenya. klaus.toepfer@unep.org
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