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Water security has been recently defined as the capacity of a population on ensuring that they continue to have access to safe and properly sanitised potable water. Today, water security issues encompass increasing concerns arising from population growth, drought, climate change, oscillations between “El Nino” and “La Nina” effects, urbanisation, increasing salinity (e.g. the Arabian Gulf region), upstream pollution (for rivers), over-allocation of water licences by government agencies and over-utilisation of groundwater from artesian basins. All these distresses combined have resulted in a rapid decline in water security for many parts of the world, triggering off impacts of suffering to regions, states and countries, while tensions tend to exist between “upstream” and “downstream” users of water within individual jurisdictions (as throughout history, there has been much conflict over the use of water from rivers (such as the Nile, the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers)). In modern days, in many p...