Niger River Basin

Author : Inger Andersen,Katherin George Golitzen
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9780821362044

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The Niger River Basin by Inger Andersen,Katherin George Golitzen Pdf

The Niger River Basin, home to 100 million people, is a vital yet complex asset for West and Central Africa. It is the continent's third largest river basin, traversing nine countries -Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, C©þte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria. The River embodies both these nations' livelihoods and their geopolitics. It is not simply water but rather an origin of identity, a route for migration and commerce, a source of conflict, and a catalyst for cooperation. Cooperation among decision-makers and users is crucial to address the threats to water resources. The Niger.

Author : Inger Andersen,Ousmane Dione,Martha Jarosewich-Holder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:931684129

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The Niger River Basin by Inger Andersen,Ousmane Dione,Martha Jarosewich-Holder Pdf

The Niger River Basin Authority (NBA) brings together nine countries to promote integrated water resources management across political borders. The nine - Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria have embraced a shared vision to build institutional capacity, political agreement, and public support for cooperation. The countries agree that sustainable management and development of the basin's water resources are necessary to meet natural and man-made threats to their shared resources, and that progress can be achieved by integrating technical data on the hydrology and geography of the river system with judicious political and economic policy. The Niger river basin, home to 100 million people, is a vital and complex asset of West and Central Africa. The continent's third-longest river, the Niger is more than just a source of water. For the people of the nine countries it is a source of identity, a route for migration and commerce, a source of conflict, and now a catalyst for cooperation. Niger, with about 23 percent of the Basin within its borders, depends on river navigation (through Nigeria) to reach the sea. Nigeria, a major food grower on rain-fed and irrigated land, is the final downstream country. Its borders enclose some 80 percent of the Basin's population and about 28 percent of its territory.

Author : Regassa E. Namara,Boubacar Barry,Eric S. Owusu,Andrew Ogilvie
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789290907428

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An Overview of the Development Challenges and Constraints of the Niger Basin and Possible Intervention Strategies by Regassa E. Namara,Boubacar Barry,Eric S. Owusu,Andrew Ogilvie Pdf

The Niger River Basin covers 7.5% of the African continent and is shared between nine riparian countries. The human population of the basin is growing at an average annual rate of about 3%, which makes the Niger River Basin one of the areas with the highest fertility rates in the world. The desert margin is expanding; climate change is negatively impacting rainfall; and urbanization, industrialization, and the human and livestock population are threatening the quantity and quality of available water resources. The basin population already suffers from chronic poverty. Based on a literature review, this paper suggests some key water-related and other interventions that are capable of easing the basin’s development challenges.

Author : Lower Niger River Basin and Rural Development Authority
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Kwara State (Nigeria)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081675634

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Activities of the Lower Niger River Basin and Rural Development Authority by Lower Niger River Basin and Rural Development Authority Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : OCLC:1066388869

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Niger River Basin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sidy Ba
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782343171449

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The Pollution Peril of the Niger River by Sidy Ba Pdf

This book examined the different types of pollution of the Niger River, as well as their consequences, known and visible, subtler and more unsuspected, but all as perilous. This book on the pollution peril brings scientific clarifications on the mechanisms of contamination of various types of pollutants and their impact on animal and plant species. Il also reviews the physical environment of the Niger River Basin, in a simple language accessible to non-specialists. The author proposes some possible solutions to prevent, limit and reduce the growing pollution of the Niger River.

Author : Leo Zwarts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Niger River
ISBN : 9080715069

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The Niger, a Lifeline by Leo Zwarts Pdf

Author : Holmes & Narver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Hydrology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120689976

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Niger River Commission Study by Holmes & Narver Pdf

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ,IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251333785

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Water accounting in the Niger River Basin by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ,IHE Delft Institute for Water Education Pdf

The Niger River Basin is a transboundary basin covering nine riparian countries to the Niger River that are increasingly putting pressure on the available water resources as their populations expand. Yet, the nine countries are also among the poorest in the world and adequate exploitation of the water of the basin could be part of a broader strategy for poverty reduction in these countries. Major challenges to that end are the lacking water infrastructure and growing vulnerability to extreme weather hazards as the climate changes. In that context, a better understanding of the state of water resources in the basin is a crucial departure point for any measures towards the sustainable use of water. The Water Accounting Plus (WA+) system designed by IHE Delft with its partners FAO and IWMI has been applied to gain full insights into the state of the water resources in the basin.

Author : Nwamaka Chigozie Odili
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004364837

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Shared Water Resources in West Africa by Nwamaka Chigozie Odili Pdf

In Shared Water Resources in West Africa: Relevance and Application of the UN Watercourses and UNECE Water Conventions, Nwamaka Chigozie Odili addresses the question of whether riparian states in West Africa need to be parties to both the UN Watercourses Convention and the UNECE Water Convention.

Author : Karen Frenken
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Irrigation
ISBN : 9251039666

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Irrigation Potential in Africa by Karen Frenken Pdf

Author : Bryan R. Davies,Keith F. Walker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401732901

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The Ecology of River Systems by Bryan R. Davies,Keith F. Walker Pdf

Our understanding of the ecology of running waters has come a long way during the past few years. From being a largely descriptive subject, with a few under tones concerned with such things as fisheries, pollution or control of blackflies, it has evolved into a discipline with hypotheses, such as the River Continuum Concept (Vannote et a/. 1980), and even a book suggesting that it offers opportunity for the testing of ecological theory (Barnes & Minshall 1983). However, perusal of the literature reveals that, although some of the very early studies were concerned with large rivers (references in Hynes 1970), the great mass of the work that has been done on running water has been on streams and small rivers, and information on larger rivers is either on such limited topics as fisheries or plankton, scattered among the journals, or not available to the general limnologist. The only exceptions are a few books in this series of publications, such as those on the Nile (Rz6ska 1976), the Volga (Morduckai Boltovskoi 1979) and the Amazon {Sioli 1984), and the recent compendium by Whitton (1984) on European rivers, among which there are a few that rate as large.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821328719

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International River Basin Organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa by Anonim Pdf

World Bank Technical Paper 250. Assesses the successes and shortcomings of river basin organizations in order to help international organizations improve the management of shared water resources in the region. On the African continent, where

Author : Anoulak Kittikhoun,Susanne Schmeier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780429561245

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River Basin Organizations in Water Diplomacy by Anoulak Kittikhoun,Susanne Schmeier Pdf

Will tensions and disputes among states sharing international water courses and lakes turn into active conflicts? Addressing this question, the book shows that these concerns are more prominent due to the locations and underlying political dynamics of some of these large rivers and the strategic interests of major powers. Written by a combination of leading practitioners and academics, this book shows that states are more prone to cooperate and manage their transboundary issues over the use of their common water resources through peaceful means, and the key institutions they employ are international river basin organizations (RBOs). Far from being mere technical institutions, RBOs are key mechanisms of water diplomacy with capacity and effectiveness varying on four key interrelated factors: their legal and institutional development, and the influence of their technical and strategic resources. The basins analyzed span all continents, from both developed and developing basins, including the Columbia, Great Lakes, Colorado, Senegal, Niger, Nile, Congo, Jordan, Helmand, Aral Sea, Mekong, Danube and Rhine. Contributing to the academic discourse on transboundary water management and water conflict and cooperation, the book provides insights to policy-makers on which water diplomacy engagements can be successful, the strengths to build on and the pitfalls to avoid so that shared water resources are managed in a cooperative, sustainable and stable way.

Author : Ashok Subramanian,Bridget Brown,Aaron Wolf
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821395943

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Reaching Across the Waters by Ashok Subramanian,Bridget Brown,Aaron Wolf Pdf

This volume reviews the experience of cooperation in five international river basins, focusing on the perceptions of risks and opportunities by decision makers in countries responding to a specific prospect of cooperation. For each basin, the analysis centered on “tipping points,” or periods in time when policymakers in the countries involved were faced with a critical decision concerning water cooperation. This study was inspired, in part, by the intensified involvement of the World Bank and development partners in shared international waters, resulting in a growing interest to better understand the political economy surrounding regional cooperation deals over water. While the associated economic benefits and costs of cooperation are generally well analyzed, the perceptions of decision makers regarding political risks and opportunities have been much less explored. Responding to this knowledge gap, this study looked at the political dimension of cooperation over international waters, beginning with perceived risks. Five categories of perceived risk were analyzed: 1) Capacity and Knowledge; 2) Accountability and Voice; 3) Sovereignty and Autonomy; 4) Equity and Access; and 5) Stability and Support. All five categories of risk were found to exert a significant influence on cooperation decisions, indicating that perceived risks were a core consideration for decision makers in countries. Furthermore, cooperation was more likely when risks were reduced, or opportunities created for political gains. This has important implications for development partners' engagement in shared international waters. Partners are advised to conduct risk assessments in consultation with countries involved, and devise plans for reducing perceived risks. Suggested measures for partner action are also included. In addition to the discussions of risk and enhancing the potential for cooperation, this volume offers some important lessons on supporting cooperation. First, cooperation can take several years of planning and confidence building, often before negotiations even begin. Thus, a long-term time commitment by partners is likely required. Finally, deals are dynamic. Once a deal is reached, the situation does not become static: deals can be fragile and fall apart or evolve and grow into stronger and more sustainable arrangements. Accordingly, periodic assessments are needed to reflect changing realities and as inputs for a revised strategy.