Shared Waters, Shared Opportunities : Hydropolitics in East Africa.
The importance of watercourses to human life and development cannot be overemphasised. From communication, trade, agriculture and the location of human settlements, they have played an immeasurable role. Almost 60% of Africa lies within shared rivers and lake basins. The Nile is shared by more than...
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Mkuki na Nyota Publishers
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introduction. Water and Life; The Politicisation of Water in East Africa; SECTION ONE. Conflicts and Management; Competing Models of Water Resource Management and Their Implications Using the Example of Pangani River Basin in Tanzania; Introduction; Three Models of Water Management; The Market-based Model; The Community-based Model; Tanzanian Water Laws and Policies; Water Management in the Pangani River Basin; Conclusion; Notes; Trans-boundary River Basins. Hydropolitics in the Horn of Africa; Introduction.
- Scope and MethodologyInternational Rivers; International Legal Perspectives on International River Basins; UN Convention on the Law of Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses; Physical Aspects of the Shabelle and Juba Rivers; The Shabelle River Basin; The Juba River Basin; Developmental Aspects of the Shabelle and Juba Rivers; Hydropolitical Aspects of the Shabelle and Juba Rivers; Historical Conflicts and Current Tensions; Shabelle Development Projects in Ethiopia; Juba Valley Development in Somalia and Ethiopian Plans; The Role of the Rivers in Somalia's Economic Development.
- Growing Water Scarcity and Looming Water ConflictLessons from the Nile River Basin; Physical Geography; Economic Geography; Hydro-political Geography; Conclusion; Notes; Nile Basin Initiative: A Possibility of Turning Conflicts into Opportunities; Introduction to the Nile Basin; Existing Conflicts amongst the Nile Basin Countries; Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Nile; Sudan's Nile Priorities; Great Lakes Region Countries; The Nile Treaties as a Source of Conflict; The 1929 Nile Agreement; The 1959 Nile Agreement; Attempts towards Managing the Nile Water Conflicts.
- Major Issues Arising and the Reality of Co-operation amongst the Nile countriesExistence of Effective and Efficient Institutions; Adequate and Reliable Information; More Members Joining the NBI; Political Willingness among the Nile Countries; Expectations of Future Benefits; Equal Distribution of Duties and Responsibilities; National Interests of Individual Countries; Construction of Dams; Participation of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and Civil Societies; The Financial Question; Co-operation and Co-ordination at Regional Level; Conclusion and Policy Recommendations; Notes.
- Managing Trans-Boundary Water Conflicts on Lake Victoria with Reference to Kenya, Uganda and TanzaniaIntroduction; Background Information on Lake Victoria as a Shared Resource; Real Conflicts; The Migingo Question; Environmental Conflicts: The Water Hyacinth; Potential Conflicts; Causes of Conflicts; What has been done?; What ought to be done?; Conclusion; Notes; An Attempt Towards Management: An Examination of the Existing Institutional Frameworks in the Lake Victoria Region; Introduction; The Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP).