African governments urged against signing away water rights for decades

By Gerald Businge on November 24, 2011 African governments, change, climate change, contractual commitments, development, Environment, ethiopian government, future prospects, global water crisis, half a million, harm, IIED, lake turkana, land, Land Acquisitions, land deals, news, paper, pastoralist, Report, Study, today, water issues news & events

News Release: A paper published today by the International Institute for Environment and Development warns that African governments are signing away water rights for decades with insufficient regard for how this will affect millions of local users, including fishing, farming and pastoralist communities. The water rights often feature in the growing number of large land […]