Very good video from TheWaterChannel about the Nile Basin and the Nile Basin Initiative.
Here is the blurb:
The Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) has achieved a lot since its establishment in 1999. For the first time ever, NBI has provided Nile riparian countries an all-inclusive platform for dialogue, consultation and confidence building; a platform for technical capacity building, investment promotion and transboundary water resource planning and management taking the entire Nile as one hydrologic unit. Given the threat of climate change impacts on the fragile and finite Nile and given the growing pressure the river is to sustain due to population and economic growth, there is no alternative to regional cooperation. No country is strong enough to manage these challenges unilaterally. Hence, the need for sustaining these gains, even more the need for broadening and deepening Nile Basin Cooperation.
The film highlights these issues and puts forth a robust argument why Nile Basin Cooperation matters.
Visit the WWW site for related videos and this blog post, Eye on the Nile.
Jennifer Veilleux, a PhD student of Aaron Wolf, has been in Ethiopia for the past few months. Her dissertation focus is on the human security dimensions of development of internationally shared freshwater resources at various scales. She will be looking at dams in the Nile Basin and Central Asia. Her blog, The Way to Water, describes her experiences, not all of which relate to water.
Here is a video she posted that is a portion of an interview with a man panning for gold:
Enjoy, and keep your eye on the Nile Basin.
"The fool is thirsty in the midst of a downpour." -- Ethiopia Proverb
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