The Lebanese Center for policy Studies hosted a workshop on February 23, 1996, in which Fouad Boulos, an LCPS research associate, presented the findings of his study on Lebanese water resources in the context of the multilateral peace talks. The study was supported by the Canadian International Development Agency .

The paper reviewed the water situation in Lebanon and indicates that the country's dam system is deficient and unable to conserve water resources for agriculture or household use. It was agreed by several participants that if the country pursued a course of fairly rapid development in agriculture, industry, and domestic water provision, it wouldl use up all the available water resources. This effectively precluded the possibility of exporting Lebanese water through agreements reached in the regional peace talks.