On March 22, as part of a celebration of World Water Day 2007 and in recognition of the upcoming halfway point in the timeline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals, UNDP Administrator Kemal Dervis made a statement stressing the concrete steps that can be taken to address the water emergency, being made more daunting by climate change, that currently affects the 700 million people in 43 countries who live below the water-stress threshold of 1,700 cubic meters per person per year.
For a text of the statement, see here.