The Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation in the Water Sector: Assessment of Progress and Emerging Perspectives

the Union for the mediterranean (Ufm), launched in July 2008, was conceived as an initiative to reinforce the euro-mediterranean Partnership with the aim of addressing the common challenges facing the region. the idea was to make the integration between the two shores of the mediterranean more visible to civil society through the implementation of regional and sub- regional projects. the environment has been at the core of the Ufm process, which has stressed the consequences of climatic change on global food security, the need to introduce a common strategy for water sector management and the de-pollution of the mediterranean Sea.