- Guidelines and Procedures for Resource Allocation and Sharing - of Benefits in Transboundary River Basins

The results of the interviews indicated that the degree of water scarcity in the shared water course is perceived to be the most important factor that influences the process of reaching and implementing shared water course agreements. [...] Water accounts include: Physical and monetary stock and flow accounts; Data requirements (specific to the country’s part of the river basin); Size of the basin; Amount of available water at the start and end of the year at the entry and exit of the country; Water abstractions in the country for human activities (domestic, agriculture, industry, government etc); and Natural changes during the year:. [...] The main tributaries of the Orange are the Senqu in Lesotho, the Caledon bordering Lesotho and South Africa, the Vaal in South Africa, and the Molopo and Nossop rivers (which form the border between South Africa and Botswana), and the Fish river in Namibia (Heyns, 2003). [...] The Commission was mandated to develop a comprehensive perspective of the basin, study the present and planned future uses of the river system, and determine the requirements for flow monitoring and flood management (AMCOW and ANBO, 2007). [...] The LHDA is responsible for the management of the dam construction and related issues within Lesotho itself while the TCTA is responsible for the management of the complex set of delivery tunnels into South Africa.