| ID | 179643 |
| Title Proper | Water Dispute in the Nile River Basin |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Wadekar, Sudhir |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Many ancient civilizations center found on famous rivers — the Euphrates and the Tigris (Babylon), the Yangtze (China), the Ganges (India), and the Nile (Egypt) (Hussein 2014). The famous Greek historian Herodotus wrote in the fifth century B.C., ‘Egypt is the gift of the Nile’ (Swain 1997: 676). The Nile River basin act as ideal case studies to ask the following questions: 1) How do riparian states in transboundary basins achieve water security, and 2) In the face of increasing water scarcity, will efforts to achieve water security lead to increased conflict throughout the region or will they lead riparian states to cooperate in an effort to conserve their shared water resources? To answer these questions, importance given to the hydrogeography, history, and hydropolitics of the basins and riparian states (Ward and Roach 2010: 52). |
| `In' analytical Note | World Focus Vol. 42, No.8; Aug 2021: p.49-56 |
| Journal Source | World Focus 2021-08 42, 8 |
| Key Words | Water Dispute ; Nile River Basin |