water and environmental change africa

This is my final and last blog post. I started blogging this year through UCL. I wrote two blogs this term, so I was able to gain a lot of experience. I learned what to look out for to find the content of the blog or specific blog posts. To go through tons of information in a variety of ways and then reflect it in a rather short format, was new for me. I found this very challenging, because some topics are very extensive and can't be summarized in a short time, like the case with Boko Haram. Nevertheless, I liked the way the knowledge about climate change and water increased from week to week and how complex I know more about it now. Regarding the content, I have looked at different lakes and how they are suffering from climate change. Then I looked at the socio-economic consequences. This approach was very useful to me because it enabled me to establish the links and understand the causes of the problems for the local population. In my last two posts, I then dealt with t...

In my last blog post, I wrote about water management in transboundary countries. The challenges lie in the fact that all neighboring countries have rights of availability but can use them differently and thus disadvantage other countries. Today I will look at the Nile basin, which contains ten countries. Nile River basin There were some key transboundary water agreements in 1966 (Helsinki Rules), 1997 (UN Convention) and 2009 (Law of Transboundary Aquifers) (Thompson, 2019). When I try to summarize this, the laws ensure sustainable and balanced use. But it isn’t that easy. The disagreements are mainly between Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt. More than 300 million people rely on Niles water. In 2011 Ethiopia launched a 4.8 billion project called Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam (GERD), close to the Sudanian border ( TRT World ). GERD The dam shall solve the problems of food and water insecurity and energy shortage in Ethiopia and the neighbouring area. Belonging that Ethiopia ha...