EU grant supports transboundary water management

Addressing the gathering on Wednesday, EU Ambassador to Botswana and SADC, Alexander Baum said the Cubango-Okavango river system, rising in Angola and flowing through Namibia to the Okavango Delta in Botswana was one of the world’s few remaining naturally clean water resources.

He explained that the river’s presence in the dry sands of the Kgalagadi was highly valued by the three countries, which established the Permanent Okavango River Basin Water Commission (OKACOM) in 1994 to advise the member States on how best to share and manage that unique resource.