World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2018
Hydropolitics in Water Governance of the Nile River in Africa
Publication: World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2018: International Perspectives, History and Heritage, Emerging Technologies, and Student Papers
ABSTRACT
The transboundary water issues are usually enshrined in regional and international political arena. In order to have a formative governance and political management, it is desired to have an all-out inclusiveness of various players in various international river basins. However in most of the international river basins, various riparian states find themselves in conflictual situations as they mantle to access and gain control of the fugitive water resources. The Nile River is a unique river system in the African continent which is of utmost importance to the socio-economic development of 11 riparian countries. The pressure for economic development of the basin’s riparian states is fissuring the political landscape on the development and utilization of the Nile waters casting a new era of hydropolitics in the region. This paper discusses the Nile basin hydropolitics currently conspicuously reddened with intrigue and mistrust threatening sustainable development and management of the Nile waters. It highlights the issues and opportunities to better utilize the available resources amicably with minimal conflicts.
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World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2018: International Perspectives, History and Heritage, Emerging Technologies, and Student Papers
Pages: 277 - 290
Editor: Sri Kamojjala, Las Vegas Valley Water District
ISBN (Online): 978-0-7844-8139-4
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