Potential for cooperation?

According to Sadoff and Grey (2002), international rivers can become a powerful catalyst for co-operation. One example of the benefit of riparian states of sharing a transboundary water resource is the concept of 'benefit sharing'. This concept has been implemented in the Nile basin Initiative. Sadoff and Grey establish that distribution of benefits gained from the river (e.g. hydroelectricity) may be more politically achievable and therefore more likely than the actual sharing of the transboundary water resource. To a certain extent I agree with this line of thought because it’s easier for a country to share, knowing that it will itself receive some reward.  Furthermore, The World Bank is encouraging and investing heavily in basin wide cooperative management frameworks (Swain 2002).