The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council is a leading international organisation that enhances collaboration in the water supply and sanitation sector to accelerate the achievement of sustainable water, sanitation and waste management services to all people, with special attention to the unserved poor, by enhancing collaboration among developing countries and external support agencies and through concerted action programmes. An editorial on this site by Sir Richard Jolly quotes Maurice Strong describing the World Summit as "
...a struggle between the world's ecosystems and its egosystems".