Abstract
The Lake Chad basin, one of Africa’s oldest river basin has shrank to one-tenth of its original size. The environmental degradation that had occurred in the basin over the years has had direct impact on the livelihood of people in the region. The problem in the Lake Chad Basin has also constituted social risks to populations of the region resulting in accelerating global climate change due to years of unsustainable resource use. The ecological degradation in the basin has further exacerbated conflict with attendant terrorism in the region. Using a coordinated science-policy market place of ideas, an event during the EU-AU Workshop in water-energy-food nexus held in Italy in 2016, a team of scientists and policymakers from both Africa and European Union looked at the reason for the water loss and how to make the solution of inter-basin water transfer proffered practicable. Sustainability tools were recommended in the basin to provide policy advice for decision makers while also developing a nexus framework to enhance future sustainability of the basin. This paper also addresses cooperation among different stakeholders by suggesting new governance pattern and opening up the basin to external collaborators to reverse the declining fortune of Lake Chad basin.
Highlights
Water resources management has been a key scientific and social concern of this century
Participants of the Marketplace ideas event agreed that more data is needed to inform decision support in terms of modelling on Lake Chad basin area
The proposal submitted for Transaqua project for water transfer from Congo basin by Bonfica Inc. as diagrammed in figure 3 below was widely accepted
Summary
Water resources management has been a key scientific and social concern of this century. While reliable access to water still cannot be completely assured globally, large human and socio-economic losses are attributable to the effects of flooding and drought. This, in effect, is intensifying water scarcity, threatening freshwater ecosystems, food security, and increasing water-related diseases and associated impacts on society [1]. The Africa continent seems to be vulnerable to these impacts, the need for international and national attention over water-related risks [2]). As a response to these challenges, nations see the need to address the issues in a coordinated manner through trans- boundary basin management. The Lake Chad Basin Commission in Africa typifies an attempt to address these problems at regional scale
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