Interview on Climate Change's Threat to Nile-Sharing Countries
- Frederic Musisi
- Feb 13, 2017
- 1 min read
The Nile Day, for us, is an opportunity to create awareness among the basin communities on the importance of the River Nile but also on the need to take care of the river wherever it passes in each country; knowing it is a shared resource.
In Uganda, we know we have the Nile; it runs our hydropower dams, it's a tourism hub and maybe some communities along its route benefit directly. But generally you don't see that great sense of appreciation that what we have is the second longest river in the world. How do we fit in the picture?
We keep rotating the day's celebrations in all member countries as one of the ways to reach many people as we can but also to get people to appreciate. But that notwithstanding the Nile Day is an opportunity for each country to relay that message that the river is for us all sharing it and that strengthening cooperation is crucial not just at the community level but even at the country level.
Tamsyn Steadwood