The Environment: Central to the Water Cycle and Water Management

The Environment: Central to the Water Cycle and Water Management Water is the lifeblood of our planet, essen- tial for all forms of life and critical to the health of our ecosystems. [...] African country to accede to the 1992 Conven- These are the Buzi, Limpopo, Pungwe, Save tion on the Protection and Use of Transboundary and Zambezi rivers and the Kariba dam, shared Watercourses and International Lakes (the Water with Mozambique to the east, South Africa to Convention) after Ivory Coast, and the the south, Botswana to the west and Zambia to 15th African State, after Tunisia in 200. [...] ■Expertise projects will be implemented in Türkiye; It will provide project support to the Ira- Iraq on the construction of water infrastructure qi administration on the good management and and collection systems, dam safety and im- economical use of the waters of the Tigris and provement of existing dams. [...] The financing of Ankara - The "Framework Agreement on Coop- each project will be met through a system eration in the Water Field between the Govern- based on Turkey's oil purchases from Iraq, un- ment of the Republic of Turkey and the Govern- less otherwise agreed by the parties. [...] Source: The issues agreed upon by Turkey and Iraq in the iraka-petrol-karsiliginda-su-destegi-verilecek- 7173051 Decision Concerning the Approval of the Frame- work Agreement on Cooperation in the Water Field between the Government of the Republic of Turkey and the Government of the Republic of Iraq (Decision Number: 8836) are as follows: 5 ..