The United Nations World Water Development Report 2025, entitled “Mountains and glaciers – Water towers”, is launched on 21 March at a joint celebration for World Water Day and the inaugural World Day for Glaciers. The 2025 edition of UN-Water’s flagship annual report on water calls attention to the essential services and benefits mountain waters and alpine glaciers provide to societies, economies and the environment. With a focus on the technical and policy responses required to improve water management in mountains, the report covers critical issues such as water supply and sanitation, climate change mitigation and adaptation, food and energy security, industry, disaster risk reduction and ecosystem protection.

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