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Nile Basin Countries Concerned by Israel-South Sudan Water Agreement Israel, JERUSALEM — The pact signed last week between Israel and South Sudan to cooperate on water infrastructure and technology development has some Nile Basin countries concerned about their water security. The agreement, signed in Jerusalem by Israel Military Industries Ltd. and the government of South Sudan, offers Israel‘s assistance to the new state on projects such as desalination, irrigation, water transport and water purification, according to Israel‘s Energy and Water Ministry. About 45 percent of the Nile Basin‘s water is in South Sudan‘s territory, with 28 percent of the river‘s water flowing through it downstream to Sudan and Egypt. A large part of that is essentially untapped, as more than half of the Nile‘s water is reportedly lost to evaporation and transpiration in the swamps of the Sudd region of South Sudan. The agreement comes against the backdrop of tensions over water issues between Egypt and Sudan, which take the lion‘s share of the Nile‘s waters, and other Nile Basin countries including Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Eritrea, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda. A 1959 pact allocated an annual 55.5 billion cubic meters of Nile water to Egypt and 18.5 billion cubic meters to Sudan. Dr. Irit Back of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle East and Africa Studies at Tel Aviv University said the agreement reflected Israel‘s long-term foreign policy of establishing diplomatic ties with African countries. Israel‘s water technology could assist South Sudan to grow from subsistence farming to a more developed economy, and a strong South Sudan, as an Israeli ally, would place a check on Sudan and Egypt, particularly where water security is concerned. While no official projects have been announced, the offer of desalination technology has raised questions since South Sudan is land-locked. Page 53
Back said there had been consultation on an oil pipeline for South Sudan to cross Kenya and Uganda in the future, bypassing Sudan, which reportedly charges $36 USD for every barrel of South Sudanese oil that passes through its territory. She speculated that desalination technology offered by Israel could send a supply of desalinated water back the same way. ―Nile Basin Countries Concerned by Israel-South Sudan Water Agreement ―, 03/08/<strong>2012</strong>, online at: http://www.ooskanews.com/daily-water-briefing/nile-basin-countries-concerned-israel-south-sudan-wateragreement_23700 BACK TO TOP Page 54
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