The sectoral statistics team participated at the Intersecretariat Working Group on ‎Environment Statistics (IWG-ENV), Work Session on Water Statistics in Vienna, 20-22 ‎June 2005, organized by the IWG-ENV members (The United Nations Statistics Division ‎‎(UNSD), the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Statistical ‎Office of the European Communities (Eurostat), the United Nations Environment Programme ‎‎(UNEP), and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE) together with the ‎UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the UNEP GEMS/Water programme and hosted by the ‎Umweltbundesamt (Austrian Federal Environment Agency). This special Work Session on ‎Water Statistics looked in-depth at the need for water statistics at international level and ‎how best to meet this need in the preparation of the second World Water Development ‎Report and UNEP''s fourth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4). The team provided a ‎paper on the "Status and Needs of Water Statistics in the ESCWA region" mainly ‎focusing on the scarcity problems in the ESCWA region and the needs for data quantity ‎and quality on water resources and consumption in the region and ESCWA activities and ‎projects to build capacity of member countries in water sector and the need to continue ‎on capacity building in this area of major importance in the ESCWA region. For more ‎information on the meeting visit the website: http://www.umweltbundesamt.at/iwg-env