Nile Basin Cooperation : A Review of the Literature

This paper reviews literature on the Nile basin co-operation and issues related to this process, focusing on more recent publications.

The literature on utilization and management of the Nile waters related to basin-wide cooperation efforts has been growing fast during the last decade.

This review discusses and covers a wide range of issues, which include: debate on water scarcity and its potential consequences in general, and its implications for the Nile basin countries in particular; legal aspects of utilization of the Nile waters focusing on the UN watercourse convention of 1997; conflicts and major attempts at cooperation and challenges and prospects of the recent basin-wide cooperation.