CRS and the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program organized a panel discussion about water’s complex role in conflict and development on January 6th in Washington, DC. Titled “Water, Conflict and Cooperation: Practical Concerns for Water Development Projects,” the meeting followed the release of a CRS publication titled Water and Conflict, which describes how water scarcity, access to water supplies, pollution of water sources and transboundary water management play a role in disputes, political manipulation and, in worst cases, outright conflict. Click here for more information on this and other CRS publications in Water and Sanitation. To learn more about the discussion, click here.