The United Nations World Water Development Report 2025 draws worldwide attention to the importance of mountain waters, including alpine glaciers, in sustainable development of the mountain regions and of the downstream societies that depend upon them, with a focus on the impacts of the rapidly changing mountain cryosphere.
Read the full UN World Water Development Report 2025, Mountains and Glaciers: Water towers, as well as related resources, including the executive summary and more.
The United Nations World Water Development Report 2025, Mountains and glaciers: water towers
UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme
2025
Executive summary
UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme
2025
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The United Nations World Water Development Report 2025: Mountains and glaciers Water towers: facts and figures