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 Agencies: These agencies receive funding from multiple sources and work in many countries. They play a highly influential role in global health politics. The two main multilateral agencies are the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO). The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries in order to promote economic growth.