“…This led to the establishment of the Nile Basin Initiative Nile Equatorial Lakes Subsidiary Action Program (NELSAP) which emphasizes that the Nile water be exploited from a regional perspective, to catalyze regional economic transformation. The goal of the Nile Basin Initiative is to “achieve sustainable socioeconomic development through the equitable use of, and that all member countries must benefit from, the common Nile Basin water resources” (Nile Basin Initiative Nile Equatorial Lakes Subsidiary Action Program (NELSAP), ). - Apart from the industrial water requirements that is estimated to increase from about 300,000 to 900,000 m 3 per year by 2020, the Energy and Water Sanitation Authority estimates that Rwandan capital, Kigali needs about 55,080 m 3 per day, while the current production stands at about 30,525 m 3 per day (Habiyakare & Zhou, ).
- The international nature of many of the world's great rivers and increasing scarcity of water has led to discussions in the academic literature of the growing potential for violent conflict, or “water wars” between nations over shared water resources (Gleditsch, Furlong, Hegre, Lacina, & Owen, ; Toset, Gleditsch, & Hegre, ).
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