Locating the channel and other tales from the river bank: constants and change in river boundary delimitation. Issue 6 (18th August 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Schofield, Richard
• Is Part Of: Water international. Volume 47:Issue 6(2022)
• Page Start: 979
• Page End: 1000
• Publication Date: 2022-08-18
• Subjects: River boundary delimitation -- Botswana -- Israel -- Jordan -- Namibia -- South Sudan -- Sudan; Water -- Periodicals; Water-supply -- Periodicals; 333.9105
• DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2022.2123613
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0250-8060

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Nowhere is the contrast between the top-down process of drawing a boundary and the ground-up reality of living with it so obvious as in delimitations along rivers – live features not just physically but also, potentially, navigable arteries. Illustrations are drawn from the chequered history of two famous colonial river boundaries along the Shatt al-Arab and Jordan rivers; and in the invocation of history in legal settlements of the status of Kasikili/Sedudu Island in the Caprivi Strip (1995–99) and the Abyei region on the Bahr al Arab between Sudan and South Sudan (2008–09).