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12 Geo. Int'l Envtl. L. Rev. 269 (1999-2000)
Past and Future Legal Framework of the Nile River Basin

handle is hein.journals/gintenlr12 and id is 277 raw text is: Past and Future Legal Framework of the Nile River Basin CHRISTINA M. CARROLL* I. Introduction ............................................. 270 H. The Nile River ........................................... 272 A. Nile Geography ....................................... 272 B. Regional Issues ....................................... 275 C. Existing Regional Agreements on the Use of the Nile ........... 276 1. Colonial Agreements ................................ 276 2. Status of Colonial Agreements .......................... 278 3. Post-Colonial Agreements ............................. 279 4. Inadequacy of the Current Nile Legal Regime ............. 281 III. Revised Legal Framework for the Nile ........................... 282 A. Background on the Convention on the Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses ... ......................... 282 1. Major Provisions of the Convention ...................... 283 2. Status of the Convention .............................. 286 B. Problems with the Application of the 1997 Convention to the Existing Regional Legal Frameworks of the Nile ...................... 286 1. Nile States' Views of the Convention ................... 287 2. Difficulties with Applying the Convention to the Nile River .... 287 a. Application of the Equitable Utilization Principle to Egypt and Ethiopia ................................... 288 b. Application of the No Harm Rule .................. 289 c. Data and Information Provisions ................... 290 3. Beneficial Application of the Convention to the Nile Region ... 290 4. The Application of the 1997 Convention to the Nile is Problem- atic ............................................. 291 C. Preparation for the Negotiation of a Regional Nile Agreement ..... 291 1. Technical and Legal Capability of Nile States to Deal with the Management of the Nile .............................. 292 a. Egypt ........................................ 292 b. The Sudan .................................... 293 c. Ethiopia ...................................... 294 d. Uganda ...................................... 295 e. Conclusion about Legal and Technical Capacity ......... 297 2. Recent Cooperation and Capacity-Building ................. 297 * J.D. Candidate, Georgetown University Law Center, 2000; A.B., Harvard University, 1997. I wish to thank Professor Edith Brown Weiss of Georgetown University Law Center and John Shepherd and Ines Dombrowsky at the World Bank for their assistance in providing sources for the preparation of this paper. This paper reflects the opinions of the author, not of the World Bank.