UN DESA United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs [to 21 November 2015]
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Selected Press Releases

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Special UN event stresses key role of water management in tackling challenges of climate change
18 November 2015, New York
The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hosted a meeting on the links between water management and disaster risk reduction today, stressing that floods, droughts and cyclones have caused more than $1 trillion in damages and affected over 4 billion people since 1990.