The Nile in Legal and Political Perspective

The Nile in Legal and Political Perspective

Author: Mahemud E. Tekuya

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-10-20

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 9004549862

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Competition over the Nile watercourse is becoming a global crisis. As population growth, economic development, and urbanization increase the demand for water in the Nile Basin while climate change threatens its supply, the region faces a looming water crisis. An effective resolution of this multifaceted issue, which impacts 11 African countries, requires detailed multidisciplinary research. Until now the academic discourse regarding the Nile watercourse has been primarily dominated by monodisciplinary studies. This book fills that gap, providing a retrospective and prospective look at the Nile through multidisciplinary lenses—commingling history, hydro-politics, climate change, and law. It scrutinizes the legal and hydro-political trajectories of the Nile Basin, from the 4th century A.D. to 2022.


The Nile

The Nile

Author: Gebre Tsadik Degefu

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 1412000564

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The study focuses in particular on the Nile Basin, which has 10 riparian states sharing the waters of the Nile. As water scarcity and population is the #1 problem of the 21st century, a fair and equitable distribution of the available waters among the riparian states is a must. The book is divided into 4 parts: Diplomatic, History, Legal Analysis and developmental analysis.


The Nile

The Nile

Author: Yeworkwoha Ephrem

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2020-07-29

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 1698702361

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“When the well is dr y , we know the worth of water” Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), January 1746. “The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives” Indian Pr overb Equitable apportionment and reasonable utilization and conservation of the available water resources is the main response to water scarcity of the twenty-first centur y .


Governing the Nile River Basin

Governing the Nile River Basin

Author: Mwangi Kimenyi

Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

Published: 2015-02-12

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 0815726562

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The effective and efficient management of water is a major problem, not just for economic growth and development in the Nile River basin, but also for the peaceful coexistence of the millions of people who live in the region. Of critical importance to the people of this part of Africa is the reasonable, equitable and sustainable management of the waters of the Nile River and its tributaries. Written by scholars trained in economics and law, and with significant experience in African political economy, this book explores new ways to deal with conflict over the allocation of the waters of the Nile River and its tributaries. The monograph provides policymakers in the Nile River riparian states and other stakeholders with practical and effective policy options for dealing with what has become a very contentious problem—the effective management of the waters of the Nile River. The analysis is quite rigorous but also extremely accessible.


Sharing Rights of the Nile

Sharing Rights of the Nile

Author: Nabil Daher Frem

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13:

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I have chosen this particular topic for my discussion, because this is the moment when we should change our lens and observe that conflicts are not the consequencesof lack of diamonds, or oil, or religion anymore. They are about water, I mean thalack of it. Chapter one of this thesis is an introduction. It contains the purpose of study, the research question, the definition of terms, and methodology of research. Chapter two reviews the Nile River in historic terms from the ancient times to the modern. It focuses on the role that this River played in antiquity and how itv helped in the prosperity of different civilizations. Chapter three explains the impact of the various treaties and agreements that were signed between European and African countries, attempting to organize water distribution. Chapter four spots the light on the current partition of the Nile water between Reparian States as well as their positions regarding the matter, the past and the present efforts on the partition of Nile Water Resources, the legal mechanisms, and last but not least, introduces the role of International Law in the regulation of water conflicts and the attempts at institutional frameworks. And finally, chapter five offers, a conclusion and recommendations on this topic.


International Watercourses Law in the Nile River Basin

International Watercourses Law in the Nile River Basin

Author: Tadesse Kassa Woldetsadik

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-26

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 1135126941

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The Nile River and its basin extend over a distinctive geophysical cord connecting eleven sovereign states from Egypt to Tanzania, which are home to an estimated population of 422.2 million people. The Nile is an essential source of water for domestic, industrial and agricultural uses throughout the basin, yet for more than a century it has been at the centre of continuous and conflicting claims and counter-claims to rights of utilization of the resource. In this book the author examines the multifaceted legal regulation of the Nile. He re-constructs the legal and historical origin and functioning of the British Nile policies in Ethiopia by examining the composition of the Anglo-Ethiopian Treaty of 1902, and analyses its ramifications on contemporary riparian discourse involving Ethiopia and Sudan. The book also reflects on two fairly established legal idioms - the natural and historical rights expressions – which constitute central pillars of the claims of downstream rights in the Nile basin; the origin, essence and legal authority of the notions has been assessed on the basis of the normative dictates of contemporary international watercourses law. Likewise, the book examines the non-treaty based claims of rights of the basin states to the Nile waters, setting out what the equitable uses principle entails as a means of reconciling competing riparian interests, and most importantly, how its functioning affects contemporary legal settings. The author then presents the concentrated diplomatic movements of the basin states in negotiations on the Transitional Institutional Mechanism of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) - pursued since the 1990’s, and explains why the substance of water use rights still continued to be perceived diversely among basin states. Finally, the specific legal impediments that held back progress in negotiations on the Nile Basin Cooperative Framework are presented in context.


The Nile Basin

The Nile Basin

Author: John Waterbury

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2008-10-01

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 0300127685

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The supply and management of fresh water for the world’s billions of inhabitants is likely to be one of the most daunting challenges of the coming century. For countries that share river basins with others, questions of how best to use and protect precious water resources always become entangled in complex political, legal, environmental, and economic considerations. This book focuses on the issues that face all international river basins by examining in detail the Nile Basin and the ten countries that lay claim to its waters. John Waterbury applies collective action theory and international relations theory to the challenges of the ten Nile nations. Confronting issues ranging from food security and famine prevention to political stability, these countries have yet to arrive at a comprehensive understanding of how to manage the Nile’s resources. Waterbury proposes a series of steps leading to the formulation of environmentally sound policies and regulations by individual states, the establishment of accords among groups of states, and the critical participation of third-party sources of funding like the World Bank. He concludes that if there is to be a solution to the dilemmas of the Nile Basin countries, it must be based upon contractual understandings, brokered by third-party funders, and based on the national interests of each basin state. “This excellent book makes a significant contribution to the rational discussion of Nile conflicts and should be helpful to many of the other 282 international river basins facing similar problems.”—Peter P. Rogers, Harvard University


Governing the Nile River Basin

Governing the Nile River Basin

Author: Mwangi S. Kimenyi

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780815726555

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" The effective and efficient management of water is a major problem, not just for economic growth and development in the Nile River basin, but also for the peaceful coexistence of the millions of people who live in the region. Of critical importance to the people of this part of Africa is the reasonable, equitable and sustainable management of the waters of the Nile River and its tributaries. Written by scholars trained in economics and law, and with significant experience in African political economy, this book explores new ways to deal with conflict over the allocation of the waters of the Nile River and its tributaries. The monograph provides policymakers in the Nile River riparian states and other stakeholders with practical and effective policy options for dealing with what has become a very contentious problem--the effective management of the waters of the Nile River. The analysis is quite rigorous but also extremely accessible. "


The Nile: Sharing a Scarce Resource

The Nile: Sharing a Scarce Resource

Author: J. A. Allan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1994-07-14

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 9780521450409

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Examines the environmental element of managing the international water resource of the Nile.