Improving freshwater management within the urban environment is currently seen with a sense of urgency. Urban water problems are mounting throughout the world. Widespread mismanagement of water resources, growing competition for the use of freshwater, degraded sources – sometimes by pollutants of unpredictable effect – only heighten the acuteness of the problems. The situation is further exacerbated by an explosive growth of urbanization, particularly in the developing world, which exhibits as its most visible expression the emergence of mega-cities that often obey a massive internal migration towards the cities feeding an uncontrolled and unplanned expansion.

These problems are of a complex nature and can only be properly addressed with a concerted effort involving scientific, social and institutional approaches.

Moreover, the proposed plan for the Eighth Phase of the IHP for 2014-2021 under the title of Water Security; Response to Local Regional and Global Challenges has six major themes. Worth noting that all major themes of the 8th phase of UNESCO-IHP focus on better water management with the aim of securing water and ensuring necessary human and institutional capacities.

In this ration, the Regional Centre on Urban Water Management was established in February 2002, by having an agreement signed and exchanged between the Government of I.R. Iran and UNESCO, based on which the Regional Centre on Urban Water Management, under the auspices of UNESCO, was officially inaugurated.

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