He proposed a list of new tasks for the water research and management community: develop
global water assessment capabilities on a par with the current IPCC assessments for climate; expand monitoring and models; introduce a regular reporting system
similar to that of the IPCC; carry out a comprehensive freshwater biodiversity survey to act as a benchmark; provide technical tools such as
databases, scenarios and conflict research to reconcile competing water uses; and expand the focus on local basics and watersheds to a
global basis.