Regardless of longstanding disagreements over how cross-border freshwater resources should be allocated and managed, and understandable preferences by governments and water professionals to rely on basin agreements rather than on international legal instruments, that half-century wait can be explained only by a lack of political leadership.
Maar het werkelijk slechte nieuws is dat de waterconsumptie sneller groeit dan de bevolking – in de twintigste eeuw zelfs twee maal zo snel.