EU Ambassador to South Sudan has assured that the future of humanity depends on water, but not oil.
This comment came during the Nile Council of Ministers in Juba.
Nile Basin Initiative or NBI is an intergovernmental partnership of 10 Nile Basin countries, including, Egypt, Burundi, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, The Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and South Sudan.
It is to provide a forum for consultation and coordination among the Basin States, for sustainable management and development of the shared Nile Basin water and related resources for win-win benefits.
Speaking during the Nile Basin Initiative, Christian Bader, calls on the Council of Ministers to strengthen the initiative.
“The future, doesn’t belong to the oil, oil is the richness of the past. The future of humanity depends very much on water and water is what you have in this part of the world and I wish everything to be done to give the real value of this asset because again has I told you oil is the value and the past and very much need resource in the future years will be the water”
The Ambassador explains that out of over five hundred million people currently living in eleven re-parent countries, two hundred and seventy million people depend on the Nile.
“Out of more than five hundred million people currently living in all eleven re-parent countries, some two hundred seventy million people are thought to depend on the Nile, a figure that is down to more than double to five hundred and seventy million by 2050 despite the some situation which conflict and stability issues facing several parts of the basin”
He says the donor communities are committed to support Tran’s boundary water cooperation in the Nile River basin.
“The donor communities’ long lasting commitment to supporting Trans boundary water cooperation in the Nile River basin is aim that responding to this challenges, I would like to monition here the program for Trans boundary management”.
The EU ambassador was speaking during the annual Nile Council of Ministers’ meeting, at Palm Africa Hotel in Juba.
Nine African countries from Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania, Burundi, South Sudan and Uganda, participated in the 29th Annual Nile Basin council of ministers on 26 November 2021.