Sudan ‘to export fresh water to Gulf states’ | GulfNews.com
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The director of the Water Commission in the state of Khartoum, Gawdat Allah Osman was reported by the Sudan Tribune as saying that the country plans to export fresh water to Gulf Arab states in the future depending on the availability of water from the Nile.
The utility cited a Saudi study last December as the premise for such a move. The study reportedly proposed the creation of a pilot project to import water from Sudan to replenish depleted groundwater reserves in the Najran region of the kingdom in collaboration with the Saudi ministries of agriculture, water and electricity.
“The study underscored the importance for Saudi Arabia to look at water as a global and regional problem, and activation of regional and international cooperation to resolve it by importing water in accordance with international agreements,” the Sudan Tribune said.
C’est peut-être l’Egypte qui risque de voir cela d’un mauvais oeil.