Water for people.pdf - WHO Thailand Digital Repository

T H E W O R L D ’ S W A T E R C R I S I S : F I T T I N G T H E P I E C E S T O G E T H E R / 5 0 3Only wholeness leads to clarity.Friedrich Von SchillerEACH ONE OF THE ELEVEN CHALLENGES addressed by this report issignificant and substantive in its own right. Each will require majorand focused effort in order to be met and overcome. Having looked atthe challenges individually, however, our purpose now is to fit the piecestogether within an integrated framework that reveals how the water crisisaffects the daily lives of billions of people. Presenting this bigger pictureserves different purposes: to expose the multiple dimensions of the watercrisis, to create an awareness of the complexity of the water situation and ofhow the many dimensions are tied into the overeaching goals.