Besides NGO efforts, significant work has been done by various university departments from Israel and Palestine working in collaboration, often with third parties from Europe and North America. All these efforts have helped to build up a 'water community' of experts, academics and officials, member of which work together in spite of the political situation. But their efforts are limited by the acuteness of the current conflict and especially by the fact that deep divisions remain over the question of water rights which can be alleviated, but not resolved. Among the ideas currently circulating are the creation of a Company which would manage the water resources of Israel and Palestine as a whole, the creation of an Israeli and Palestinian Water Council which will represent major stakeholders and function as an advisory body, and a widening of the role of the Joint Water Committee.