Download logo On 8 June 2023 Namibia became the first Southern African country, and 8th country in Africa, to accede to the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (UN Water Convention). Namibia, which has a population of some 2.5 million people, shares all its perennial rivers with neighbouring countries […]
DUBAI: In March, Iraq became the first country in the Middle East to join the UN Water Convention. It is unsurprising considering the global climate change crisis and water scarcity in Iraq. “Iraq faces a real water crisis,” Abdul Latif Rashid, Iraq’s president, said at the UN 2023 Water Conference. Over the past 40 years, water flows from the Euphrates and Tigris, which