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In an Interview to the Reuter News Agency, Zafar Adel, the current president of UN-Water (where he coordinates the works related to the water of 26 UN agencies) and Director of the Water, Environment and Health Institute of the UN of the University in Canada, said that water impacts every moment of our lives, weather it is on society, weather on natural systems and the habitats. He also said, that the disturbances to the environment can threaten agriculture and the supply of fresh water from Africa to the Middle East, and can generate conflicts because of its scarcity, as already is seen for example in Darfur in Sudan, where it is a factor that contributes towards wars. However, Zafar Adel also mentioned that water has also served, in several instances, to promote cooperation and cited, as an example, that India and Pakistan collaborated towards managing the Indo River, despite their land conflicts, and that Vietnam, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia cooperated in the Commission of the Mekong River.