Water Scarcity and Regional Security in the Nile Basin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Water Scarcity and Regional Security in the Nile Basin write by Rami Okascha. This book was released on 2013-09-18. Water Scarcity and Regional Security in the Nile Basin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bachelor Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - Region: Near East, Near Orient, grade: 14,5 p., University of Marburg, language: English, abstract: Since South Sudan's secession in 2011 the Nile River is shared by eleven countries (Egypt, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, D.R. Congo, and Kenya) and is home to more than 160 million people. Five of these countries are among the poorest in the world, with low levels of socio-economic development or - in other words - with tremendously high potentials and motivation to socio-economically develop. Today, exploitation of the Nile has reached its limits with ever greater populations and industries depending on its waters. History has created political power structures which represent the exact opposite of the hydrological realites. Although the river receives no contributions from Egyptian territories, the country is the most excessive consumer of Nile waters and dependent on it for about 95% of its freshwater resources. At the same time, precipitation in the Ethiopian highlands delivers some 85% of the Nile's flow measured at Aswan. But the prevailing river regime in combination with a history of political instability has so far prevented Ethiopia and other upstream countries from constructing major schemes to facilitate economic development or even flood protection for its population. Will increasing resource competition lead the states of the Nile Basin to full-scale inter-riparian conflict? Egypt with its very limited availabilty of arable land and already over-exploited and contested water resources must consider to at least partially abandon its pursuit of food self-sufficiency and examine alternative ways of securing its population's needs. Given growing pressures on the Nile's resources, the Basin states' current order will have to fundamentally shift from the current lower-basin domination to a more integrative regional system that appreciates both the upperriparians' contributions and development needs as well as the lower-riparians' dependence upon their cooperation. Considering the most recent trends in scientific literature on transboundary water resources, this transformation is expected to be accomplished through cooperative action rather than resisted against through inter-riparian conflict. This paper argues that Egypt will, despite the repeated threats uttered against underdeveloped upstream states' claims for more equal shares, lose its hitherto dominant position and engage in cooperative efforts exceeding current frameworks like that of the World Bank's NBI.
Water Scarcity and Food Security Along the Nile
Water Scarcity and Food Security Along the Nile - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Water Scarcity and Food Security Along the Nile write by Terje Oestigaard. This book was released on 2012-08. Water Scarcity and Food Security Along the Nile available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On the back-cover: In 2050, the population in all the Nile Basin countries is expected to be ten times higher than it was in 1950. This will put ever increasing pressure on water as a resource for development. The Nile Basin catchment area is shared by 11 countries covering about one-tenth of the African continent. Globally, around 70 per cent of fresh water consumption is used in agriculture. This puts the spotlight on future scenarios regarding food production : will there be enough water for food security in the Nile Basin countries? In this Current African Issues publication, water scarcity and food security are analysed from a range of perspectives. What are the future predictions regarding population increase and climate change, and how will these affect development in Nile Basin countries? What are the current water theories addressing the above issues, and what are the main challenges the Nile Basin countries will face in a context that is also strongly shaped by its history?
Water and Regional Security
Water and Regional Security - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Water and Regional Security write by John C. Curwen. This book was released on 2011. Water and Regional Security available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Water is crucial for personal survival and for national health and economic growth. This paper examines how water impacts the stability of the countries within the Nile River Basin. These ten countries are connected by this body of water. All of these countries receive some water in the form of rainfall. Some of these countries such as Burundi and Ethiopia receive more than enough water to meet their current needs and add water to the river system. Other countries such as Egypt and Sudan receive so little rainfall that they must rely upon the waters of the Nile to sustain their agriculture, industry, and communities. This paper examines the political history, international water law, treaties, water management plans, demographics, and the per capita gross domestic product of the nations in the Nile River Basin to determine how current policies and practices contribute to the stability of this region of Africa. It also suggests steps that will help sustain that stability through changes in population(s), economy, and the environment.
Nile Basin Cooperation
Nile Basin Cooperation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nile Basin Cooperation write by Dahilon Yassin Mohamoda. This book was released on 2003. Nile Basin Cooperation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This paper reviews literature on the Nile basin co-operation and issues related to this process, focusing on more recent publications. The literature on utilization and management of the Nile waters related to basin-wide cooperation efforts has been growing fast during the last decade. This review discusses and covers a wide range of issues, which include: debate on water scarcity and its potential consequences in general, and its implications for the Nile basin countries in particular; legal aspects of utilization of the Nile waters focusing on the UN Watercourse Convention of 1997; conflicts and major attempts at cooperation; divergent views and interests of the basin countries; and challenges and prospects of the recent basin-wide cooperation.
Water Resources and Inter-Riparian Relations in the Nile Basin
Water Resources and Inter-Riparian Relations in the Nile Basin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Water Resources and Inter-Riparian Relations in the Nile Basin write by Okbazghi Yohannes. This book was released on 2009-01-01. Water Resources and Inter-Riparian Relations in the Nile Basin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Human demand for water resources is rising at an alarming rate in response to rapid population growth, rival development requirements, and the depletion of ecological resources. In this book, Okbazghi Yohannes examines the various facets of the competition for water resources among the ten Nile River Basin countries as they compete to harness the river's resources for purposes of irrigation-based agriculture and hydropower-based industrialization. Through a careful investigation of the rival states' strategies to capture greater shares of water resources, Yohannes assesses the lasting impact on the watershed ecology in the basin and on the hydrological demand of the river itself. He proposes the formation of a radically different water regime to address the looming demographic crisis, the stark regional food insecurity, and the region's collapsing hydro-ecology. This book shows how the effort to construct a regional water regime cannot be separated from the necessity to construct an ecologically sustainable internal water regime in each co-basin state, particularly in terms of ecological resources conservation and ecosystem services protection.
