Welcome to my Blog! The theme I have chosen to base my blog posts around are water and politics. The supply of water wherever in the world is almost certainly entangled in some sort of political issues and conflict. In order for there to be consistency and stability in water and the availability of it, there has to be political stability as well. The two, it could be argued are dependent on each other in order to function sustainably. In Africa, across the 900 million inhabitants the continent is home to, the issue of water availability and access is a persistent problem in some countries. Problems in the past and presently range from the well-known dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia over the well-provisioned development of water from the River Nile, to local political issues in Port Harcourt in Nigeria. Transboundary issues over water resources, whether this is surface water or even groundwater are one of the biggest causes of conflict in Africa. The continent of Africa heavily rel