Transcending political boundaries, river basins shared by two or more countries pose particularly challenging management problems. In this context, the unifying principles of integrated watershed management clash with the forces of state sovereignty. Evidence suggests that the likelihood of political tensions is related to the interaction between variability or rates of change within a basin and the institutional capacity to absorb that change, often exemplified by treaties or international water body management organizations (henceforth referred to as river basin organizations or RBOs2) (Wolf, et. al 2003, Yoffe et al. 2003, Yoffe et al. 2004). The increase in future water variability forecasted by most climate change scenarios is one form of change that may alter current hydropolitical balances, affecting in turn the ability of states to meet their water treaty commitments. This may raise serious questions about the adequacy of many existing transboundary arrangements and lead countries to set up new international water agreements.
http://www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu/publications/publications/De%20Stefano%20et%20al%202010.pdf--
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