The water crisis of the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam In view of Principles and rules of international law

Abstract

The legal status of the Renaissance Dam requires consideration of international water law provisions, such as treaties, whether private or public, as well as an examination of international custom and general principles of law as public sources, international jurisprudence and jurisprudence as secondary sources, in addition to addressing established international rules on water, and then treaty regulation To use international rivers, where the legal regime governing the waters of international rivers has been studied, the efforts of the International Law Commission and the codification of its customary rules, leading to the United Nations Convention of 1997, theories based on international watercourses, international treaties and the extent of Then, the stages of developing the law for the waters of the Nile Basin, the nature of its water crisis, the most important protocols and treaties related to it and their legal nature. The study touched upon Ethiopia's construction of the Renaissance Dam (April: 2011), which is the most prominent and immediate event with its recent repercussions, legal status and impact on the downstream countries, and without Concern about the principles and rules of international law, especially the principle of non-harm and prior notification and historical rights to them, and the extent to which the countries concerned benefit from the use of its water, and the study concluded that it needs a joint legal effort that brings together all the states parties, where it is possible to take advantage of the Renaissance Dam by Wen partnership and contribute to the management and the agreement on the duration of filling the tank on the basis of good faith and no harm to others and achieving sustainable development for all of the Eastern Nile Basin countries.