Ivory Coast Joins the United Nations Water Convention

Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivoire) has become the 10th African nation to join the United Nations Water Convention.

It is now the 53rd Party to the 1992 UN Water Convention, also known as the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes.
The Convention requires parties to cooperate on sustainable management of transboundary waters.
Ivory Coast shares eight transboundary river basins (Black Volta, Bia, Tanoe, Comoe, Niger, Sassandra, Cavally et Nuon) with six of its neighbours
The Global Water Security 2023 Assessment ranks Ivory Coast as the 40th most water-insecure country in Africa.
Sierra Leone, Zambia, and Zimbabwe are also in the final stages of joining the Convention.

The 1992 Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (UN Water Convention) is a unique international legal instrument and intergovernmental platform that aims to ensure the sustainable use of transboundary water resources by facilitating cooperation.
Initially negotiated as a regional instrument (for the pan-European region), it was opened up for accession to all UN Member States in 2016.
The Protocol provides a practical framework to translate into practice the human rights to water and sanitation and to implement SDG 6 (Ensure access to water and sanitation for all).
India is not a party to the Convention.