(6) Concluding Thoughts
As the last post for my blog on water and politics in Africa, I would like to use this opportunity to summarise my 3-month education journey. One of the most enjoyable parts of my research was making connections between water and various themes. Despite my focus on water and politics, they together cannot be dissociated from other topics as well, such as energy, gender and sanitation. The interconnected between water and development reminds me to examine the bigger picture when looking at human and physical issues that affect water provision in Africa. When I first started my blog, I did not account for how politics of water can play out at varying levels. I started my blog with a tunnel vision of simply looking at water issues through regional level, navigating competitions resulted from the Nile’s shared transboundary water resources. I soon realised that conflicts over water resources also materialise on the international level in COP and other international treaties. The Nile Basin...
