Shared waters are vital resources for human well-being, socio-economic development, and environmental health. Management of shared water resources is a challenging issue to promote peaceful cooperation between neighboring countries and sustainable development. This chapter first describes shared waters concepts and then presents a framework to manage shared water resources and to find reliable solutions for shared waters problems. Managing shared waters needs fully analyzing a case study, technically assessing the case study, resolving the conflicts and allocation problems, and reaching to a cooperative vision in the case study.
