Water in the heart of the Mediterranean Union

During his official visit to Tangiers (Morocco) last week, French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, invited Heads of State and Governments of Mediterranean countries to meet in France in June 2008 in order to develop his “Mediterranean Union” project further and to discuss his initiative of a Mediterranean Union, based on four main pillars: environment, inter-culture dialog, economic growth and security. If the Mediterranean Sea is the link among all of these countries, then water should be the main component of this union. This idea incited the President of the World Water Council to report on water in the Mediterranean Region on 26 September to the French National Assembly’s Commission of Foreign Affairs, proposing a review of water and its stakes in the region.