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AcknowledgementsThe editors and the coordinators wish to express here their gratitude to the following expertswho have reviewed the manuscript of the monograph:> Mr Ali AlTokhais, Deputy Minister for Water Affairs, Ministry of Water, Saudi Arabia,> Mr Jac van der Gun, IGRAC, Delft, the Netherlands;,> Mr Ralf Klingbeil and Mr Wilhem Struckmeier, BGR, Germany,> Mr Tarek Majzoub, Beirut Arab University, Water Consultant, Beirut Lebanon,> Mr Robert Varady, Research Professor of Environmental Policy, Adjunct Professor ofHydrology and Water Resources, and Deputy Director, Udall Center for Studies in PublicPolicy The University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona (USA),> Mr Jaroslav Vrba, Senior Consultant UNESCO-IHP, IAH Commission on GroundwaterProtection, Czech Republic.The achievement of this publication would not have been possible without the long lastingefforts of Ms Raya Marina Stephan, lawyer, expert in water law, consultant for UNESCO-IHP onthe groundwater resources activities; coordinator and active member since 2003 of theUNESCO-IHP’s experts group assisting the Special Rapporteur of the UN International LawCommission on the topic of transboundary groundwaters. Ms Stephan has played a central rolesince the beginning of the project contacting the selected authors, collecting their contributions,coordinating with the editors, considering the comments received from the peer-reviewprocess, and compiling the final text.