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Trans-boundary Water Resources Sectors
The Trans-boundary Water Resources sector will cover only the regional and continental dimensions of irrigation, hydropower, and river and lake transport.
There is a need for Africa to better understand, to monitor and to exploit, its water resources, both surface and groundwater, in a sustainable way and with good ecological and environmental safeguards. Integrated approaches that look at storage, containment, ecological balances, water conservation, flood management, drought mitigation, irrigation, hydro-power development and water for consumption all need to be reinforced. Politically, it remains a challenge given the number of shared river basins and aquifers. Focusing on sharing benefits from a integrated management instead of hazardous individual behaviors can help to provide incentives to set up and sustain the right institutional arrangements.
Africa, like other developing parts of the world, already has massive climate variability. Changes to the water cycle brought about by increased climate variability will lead to more frequent and extreme floods and droughts and rising sea levels with obvious economic and social consequences. Mitigation through the increased provision of hydraulic infrastructure is essential. Significantly, hydropower is also a much under-utilized energy resource in Africa, and whilst developing it will in many cases offer a low carbon solution, it needs to be part of a proper integrated river management framework.
The Trans-boundary Water Resources sector will cover only the regional and continental dimensions of irrigation, hydropower, and river and lake transport.
There is a need for Africa to better understand, to monitor and to exploit, its water resources, both surface and groundwater, in a sustainable way and with good ecological and environmental safeguards. Integrated approaches that look at storage, containment, ecological balances, water conservation, flood management, drought mitigation, irrigation, hydro-power development and water for consumption all need to be reinforced. Politically, it remains a challenge given the number of shared river basins and aquifers. Focusing on sharing benefits from a integrated management instead of hazardous individual behaviors can help to provide incentives to set up and sustain the right institutional arrangements.
Africa, like other developing parts of the world, already has massive climate variability. Changes to the water cycle brought about by increased climate variability will lead to more frequent and extreme floods and droughts and rising sea levels with obvious economic and social consequences. Mitigation through the increased provision of hydraulic infrastructure is essential. Significantly, hydropower is also a much under-utilized energy resource in Africa, and whilst developing it will in many cases offer a low carbon solution, it needs to be part of a proper integrated river management framework.
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