Paix et Securité Internationales

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Issue #5 (2017)

La gestion intégrée des ressources en eau au Mali : le regard du Droit international

Mamadou NIENTAO

Integrated Water Resources Management in Mali: The View of International Law

Abstract: Water is a ressource necessary to life and to human activitics. It’s a natural ressource both limited, fragile and irreplaceable. At any time the management of water has been a factor of many stakes. Water management is based on rules and so many institutions intervene at all levels.

During a very long time, Mali (on of the world poorest countries), a West african country, enforces sectorial technics in water gouvernance. This way of managing water and its clasely related ressources revealed ineffective. With its new policy of decentralization, Mali like some other africain countries, gives way of to an integrated management of ressources of water.

This dynamic is based on internationally recognised principles and nationally requested ambitions. Thus, the IMRW proposes real mechanisms managing conflit related to water, in on hand in the other, it many be the source of an sustenable developement. This article gives details, about the challenges and of course the problems that IMRW is facing in Mali and, finally proposes solutions admitted in international law of rivers. We remarked that Mali has virtually three international rivers.

Keywords: Integrated Management, Hydro policy, Bassin institution, International watercourse.

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