Ethiopia and the Nile. Dilemmas of National and Regional Hydropolitics

This study deals with the national and regional dilemmas of hydropolitics in the Eastern Nile Basin countries of Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt and Eritrea. The study demonstrates that while the sharing of water resources and a common cultural heritage serve as unifying factors among the peoples of the Eastern Nile basin, the colonial legacy and vestiges of the Cold War, combined with unilaterally determined national strategies for water resource development, have created incompatible legal norms that remain a continuing source of regional tensions.

ARSANO, Y. (2007): Ethiopia and the Nile. Dilemmas of National and Regional Hydropolitics. Zurich: CSS/ETH Zurich URL [Accessed: 24.07.2011]