The Nile is the lifeblood of northeastern Africa, and its roles for and interdependency with the national economies it traverses and binds together grow as it moves from source to sea. With rapid economic development—population growth, irrigation development, rural electrification, and overall...

Water security has become a new global and regional challenge. Control over increasingly scarce water resources, especially those that cross international borders, has the potential to cause tensions and conflicts between states sharing them. In order to prevent such conflicts it is important to...