As Qatar is one of the countries with the lowest rainfall in the world (about 80 mm per year), sustainable water management is one of the priority targets identified in the Qatar National Development Strategy 2011-2016.   Achieving this requires a strong cooperation between the different user groups of water (private households, industry, agriculture, commercial sector), water producers (operators of desalination plants), the national water supplier Kahramaa, the operators of wastewater treatment plants(Ashghal) and several Ministries (among them Environment and Agriculture). The importance of national and international cooperation in the water sector to achieve global water security is addressed by the Global World Water Day 2013. In reflection of the International Year of Water Cooperation, World Water Day is also dedicated to the theme of cooperation around water and is coordinated by UNESCO in collaboration with UNECE and UNDESA on behalf of UN-Water The role of the Qatar Statistics Authority is to provide all key-stakeholders and decision makers of the water sector with sound statistics about water use and its relation to human, social, economic and environmental development, the four columns of the Qatar National Vision 2030. In close cooperation with the key-players in the water sector, Qatar Statistics Authority is currently adjusting its water statistics and will be publishing a first national report about water statistics and water accounts in the course of 2013. QSA is also the provider of official water statistics to the United Nations Statistics Division, which collects water statistics from all around the world for various global assessments regarding sustainable water use.First results of QSA show that Qatar’s rapid economic development and population growth still result in a significant increase of demand for freshwater. Economic growth, expressed as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in constant 2004 prices, is strongly coupled with the amount of freshwater used.From 2002 until 2011 the average GDP growth was 15% per year whereas the demand for freshwater rose about 14% per year in average. The use of one liter of water in the year 2002 contributed to the creation of 0.83 QR of GDP, whereas in the year 2011 this figure improved slightly to 0.87 QR of GDP per liter freshwater.   Figure 1: Coupling of economic growth, population and water use in the State of Qatar. Data sources: QSA (GDP and population), Kahramaa (water use). Not considered are agricultural water uses from wells.Due to limitations in renewable freshwater resources Qatar’s source of freshwater is mainly desalinated water. The existing groundwater aquifers are overexploited, mainly for agricultural purposes (source: Ministry of Environment and Schlumberger Water Services, 2009).  Production capacities for desalinated water still have to be increased to address the raising demand for freshwater. However, investments in existing water infrastructure helped to reduce losses of desalinated water during transport from about 30% to 8.2% in 2011 (source Kahramaa).Further water management measures include plans for better re-use of wastewater and increased recharge of aquifers as well as awareness raising (e.g. Tarsheed Campaign).