Water diplomacy

[1][3] Water problems involve stakeholders such as agriculture and industry, urban developers and environmental conservationists competing for the limited and common resource of available water.

[1][4][5] Because of these competing needs and objectives, it is difficult to find acceptable solutions to water problems.

[4] Recognizing that women are disproportionally affected by water supply and quality issues, there is increasing attention worldwide to including women in water diplomacy.

[8] The “Water 2100” approach, differing from other tools used in water politics and traditional diplomacy, is to examine problems as an interconnected grouping of natural and societal domains in which competition and feedbacks occur between variables.

The natural constraints of quantity, quality, and ecosystem needs interact with societal domain variables including social values/norms, economy, and governance.