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Transboundary Water Resources “A Comparative Study”: The Learnt Lessons to Help in Solving Nile Basin Water Conflict

Research Authors
Mohamed A. Ashour, Tawab E. Aly, Haitham M. Abueleyon
Research Department
Research Year
2019
Research Journal
Limnological Review
Research Publisher
Limnological Review
Research Vol
Vol. 19 - No. 1
Research Rank
1
Research_Pages
3-14
Research Website
DOI 10.2478/limre-2019-0001
Research Abstract

Nowadays, in such problematic water situation in Egypt, as one of the River Nile basin countries, on the light of what is being said recently about the dangerous effects of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on Egypt's share of the Nile water. The Egyptian attention was directed to study the transboundary water problems all over the world, for making sense about the most proper methods for dealing successfully with the water shortage problems in some of basin countries. The present study focused on the successful experiences in the management and development of international river basins worldwide for highlighting and analyzing the most applicable succeeded experiences, as well as studying the possibility of implementing these experiences in other basins especially in the River Nile basin. The study proved that; overcoming the water scarcity problems in Egypt and increasing the Nile water yield for all the basin countries, can be achieved, first of all, through serious cooperation among all the basin countries for minimizing the river huge water losses (more than 1480 Billion Cubic Meters per year which represents roughly 90% of the whole basin income), in addition to make use of the succeeded technical and political experiences implemented in other international river basins, mentioned in the present study.