الموقف الدولي من أزمة المياه : (دول حوض النيل نموذجا)‎

Abstract EN

Water is the basis of life and the key element in development.

When the debate is about water, it means looking into the future of the world.

The quantity of water on the surface of the Earth is constant but the demand for it is increasing, which means that the per capita share is declining and its quality is deteriorating.

In some regions of the world, competition for this fixed quantity may develop into conflicts.

Since most of the world's rivers were trans boundary, differences between riparian states had to arise, when upstream countries considered themselves better to use water than transit or downstream countries.

As a result, the international community has been concerned with controversial issues about water and the conflicts that it may generate and with the emergence of the United Nations, which has begun to frame this interest and to anchor it with treaties and charters.

The United Nations sponsored all international initiatives and bilateral and regional agreements, oversaw many scientific activities and issued resolutions, and finally adopted the International Convention on the Law of the Use of Watercourses for Non-Navigational Uses.