Global Treaty on Rivers: Key to True Water Security

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Global Treaty on Rivers: Key to True Water Security

More than 40 percent of the world's people live in 263 river basins that straddle international borders. The Danube, Rhine, Congo, Nile, Niger, and Zambezi rivers all pass through nine or more countries. Transboundary rivers contain 60 percent of the world's river flows — for two-thirds of them, there are no agreements on water sharing.

No broad-based international agreement on sharing rivers currently exists, even though much of the world depends on water from rivers that flow through more than one nation.

But that may be about to change, as two separate global river treaties are close to being approved.

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