This generates trade-offs between the security of right holders and the flexibility of water allocation. This can generate opposition from right holders and rent seekers. Appropriate processes and compensation measures need to be considered. Firstly, fast-growing economies that need to secure food supplies are increasingly making land-lease deals with poorer nations that have fertile land with water availability (WEF, 2011), unbundling water rights from land ownership in these countries would ensure that water benefits domestic needs, but this may generate tensions with the new owners of the land.