In the U.S. Interest: Resources, Growth, and Security in the Developing World by Janet Welsh Brown

Author:Janet Welsh Brown [Brown, Janet Welsh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, General
ISBN: 9780813310534
Google: 2VM-EAAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 3050597
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1990-02-07T00:00:00+00:00

So far the bilateral arrangements seem to work well, though as Sudanese needs increase, competition for Nile water could create tension. There is already evidence of water deficits in the Sudan, although the 1988 floods have created other problems for the time being. So far the other upstream nations have not been taken into account in discussion of distribution of Nile water. At least 86 percent of the Blue Nile waters flow from Ethiopia-a point not lost on Ethiopia, which might one day want to divert some of that water for its own development pwposes, though no projects are currently planned.71

The White Nile, which supplies the other 14 percent of Nile water, flows from Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, and Z.aire. Today Egypt still oversees the outflow of water from Lake Victoria, more than 1,400 miles away from its own southern border. All these countries will one day lay claim to the Nile waters for their own hydropower and irrigation needs. The United Nations Environment Programme took an essential step in 1985 to bring these nations together for the first time to discuss joint needs. But sovereignty remains strong: none was willing to commit to any cooperative agreement that would limit its rights to control the Nile water in its territory.72

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