In the face of population growth, rampant urbanisation, industrialisation and environmental degradation, shared basin management has proved to be synonymous to conflict management.
Achieving higher levels of human development would contribute to an easing of domestic and regional tensions.
The Middle East has repeatedly had the dubious distinction of being the region with the world’s largest arms imports.
Water issues in the Middle East are often portrayed as an international problem with opposing states competing for resources that are becoming inexorably scarcer. Such a perception prevents us from understanding the multi-scalar interactions .
Political leaders have always been aware, and increasingly so, of the importance of water in the Euro-Mediterranean context and the need to tackle it at the regional level, albeit with ups and downs.
. In addition to having water unevenly allocated in space and time both regionally and within countries, the situation is further exacerbated by intense demographic changes.
Although European businesses have demonstrated a clear interest in the Maghreb (particularly in 2006), no major developments have taken place.
The year 2006 witnessed a new populist factor that is relevant when discussing current Euro-Arab relations.
The development of Euro-Mediterranean scientific cooperation suffers from a shortage of appropriate infrastructures to channel its activities.
Universities aim to contribute to consolidating relations between countries on both sides of the Mediterranean by creating transnational networks.
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