2011•03•20     Reuters.com

Excerpt from the Reuters.com article by Alister Doyle:

“We think that water is an issue that would be a appropriate for the U.N. Security Council,” Zafar Adeel, chair of UN-Water, told Reuters ahead of a meeting of experts in Canada this week to discuss water and security….

Adeel said the U.N. should try to promote past traditions of rivals cooperating over supplies in a form of “hydro-diplomacy.”