In Asia, "competition for transboundary water utilization will be fierce," says he Daming, director of the Asian International River Centre of Yunnan University in Kunming.

在亚洲，“对跨界水资源利用的竞争将会非常激烈，”位于昆明的云南大学亚洲国际河流中心主任何大明说。

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Be it a transboundary river basin or aquifer, or a water pump built for a rural village, examples of cooperation apparently abound.

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Regarding cooperation in international river basins, both Le Duc Trung (Mekong River Commission Secretariat) and Jean-Francois Donzier (International Network of Basin Organizations - INBO) stressed the importance of securing national and international political will for the sustainable management of transboundary river basins and transboundary aquifer systems.

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With 148 countries sharing at least one transboundary river basin and two thirds of the world's 276 river basins being shared by two countries, cooperation is the key to preserving water resources and protecting the environment, but also to fostering and maintaining peaceful relations within and among communities.

UNESCO: Water cooperation: more urgent than ever