Water security has become a new global and regional challenge. Control over increasingly scarce water resources, especially those that cross international borders, has the potential to cause tensions and conflicts between states sharing them. In order to prevent such conflicts it is important to...

At present, more than 55 percent of the World's population lives in internationally shared river basins. Shared waters could be either a source of conflict or a source of cooperation and prosperity. Today, the growing need for water resources for development has brought intense political and...