Water security is a common concern for all Middle Eastern nations, thereby presenting an opportunity for regional cooperation. With this in mind, the Agriculture Department of the Peres Center has teamed up with Jordanian, Israeli and international entities, to devise a comprehensive program entitled "Culture of Water" which was launched in 2002. The program emphasizes the need to transfer technologies and disseminate new methods to attain better economic use of water for the benefit of the Jordanian, Israeli and Palestinian agricultural sectors.

Over the past four years, the Center of Excellence in Jordan – which the Peres Center established within the framework of this initiative – has been advancing different methods of efficient water use. New crops grown under water saving technologies have produced impressive results, and have great economic promise, generating up to three times the income of traditional crops. For example, considerable progress has been made regarding the use of saline water to grow halophyte crops, including the successful acclimatization of the salicornia crop.

Multiple groups comprised of Israelis, Jordanians, Palestinians, Iraqis, Japanese and others have visited, and continue to visit, the Center of Excellence in Jordan, in order to learn about these new water saving techniques. Additionally, a distance learning program has been launched with modules in English and Arabic, serving the farming and rural communities of the Middle East.