Naser I. Faruqui is a Senior Programme Specialist with the International Development Research Centre, Ottowa, Canada, and focuses on water management in the Middle East. He was selected by the International Water Resources Association (IWRA) as one of 14 water leaders of the next generation, world-wide. Asit K. Biswas is the president of the Third World Centre for Water Management and a member of the World Commission on Water. Murad J. Bino is the Executive Director of the Inter-Islamic Network on Water Resources Development and Management (INWRDAM), Amman, Jordan. He was previously Director of the Environment Research Centre at the Royal Scientific Society, Amman, Jordan.