The world on a threshold of water crisis – the first conference of United Nations in 46 years

On March 22 conference of United Nations on water resources began. Netherlands and Tajikistan, three-day conference takes place in headquarters of United Nations in New York and becomes the first similar action almost for half a century. Whether it will be able to change a situation? Why United Nations needed 46 years to organize the conference devoted to a problem of shortage of water? The simplest answer is that water as the separate subject was not main in the international agenda, at least, still, Rachelle McDonnell, the deputy director generals speaks...