Personally I leave it set to depth below keel, to which I add 1.5 metres for actual depth. There is a special corner of hell reserved for the person who then reset it to actual depth and did not tell me or put it back again! Fortunately I had already slowed right down thinking ... surprised there's this much water here as we came to a sudden stop.
Since lateral means side, multilateral means basically many-sided. The philosophy of multilateralism claims that the best solutions generally result when as many of the world's nations as possible are involved in discussions, and multilateralists often favor strengthening the United Nations.
Multilateral aid effectiveness. Multilateral organisations achieve significant development results and are important partners for the Australian aid program. Their reach, leverage, specialisation and other strengths play a critical role in helping Australia to meet its international development objectives. Around one-third of the aid budget is channeled through multilateral organisations. Australia assesses the performance of its multilateral partners to inform our engagement with them and to ensure value for money from our multilateral funding.