Water scarcity and unmet energy demands represent worldwide potential sources of conflicts and tension. At the same time, these issues offer a concrete ground for facilitating inter-states dialogues where there are political obstacles and conflicts. They also represent an area of positive and cooperative engagement for the international community governments, NGOs, as well as global civil society. On the water side the LNCV is working with a two-prong strategy versus Middle East and MENA region. The first is aimed to investigate a master plan for integrated water management in Lebanon-Jordan-Israel-Palestine; the second is based on the linkage of water and food, pillar of the virtual water concept. Both projects are pursued with FAO.