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From: lori@irn.org (Lori Pottinger)
Subject: NIle basin water shortages/LS
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>From New Vision (Uganda), 32 Aug 2000
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Kajura warns of water shortage
WATER, Lands and Environment Minister Henry Kajura yesterday
warned of an impending water shortage in the Nile Basin if countries
sharing the river do not plan its use, reports Charles Wendo.
Speaking during the opening of a five-day regional workshop on the
Nile Basin in Entebbe, Kajura called for "sustainable and equitable
utilisation of the Nile waters."
He said droughts, land degradation, poor farming methods and other
circumstances that make water unsafe would aggravate the scarcity.
"As the population in the basin increases, it is evident that the Nile
waters will not be adequate to meet all the development needs of these
countries in the long term," he said.
The workshop has brought together water experts from Burundi,
Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda to discuss joint economic and
environmental projects for the basin. The Democratic Republic of Congo
is not attending though it belongs to the basin.
Kajura said that despite the great potentials of using the water for
economic development, the Nile Basin countries were among the
poorest in the world. He said the river could be used for irrigation,
electricity generation, tourism and transport.
The Nile Basin Initiative (NBI), established for harmonious
development and use of the Nile water resources for economic
development, has its headquarters in Entebbe with members as Burundi,
Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania and
Uganda.
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Lori Pottinger, Director, Southern Africa Program,
and Editor, World Rivers Review
International Rivers Network
1847 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, California 94703, USA
Tel. (510) 848 1155 Fax (510) 848 1008
http://www.irn.org
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