Ice Rivers and the Sustainability of Sudan Water – The Face of Truth – ✍️ Ibrahim Shaqlawi.
During World Water Day for 2025, the importance of serious thinking and reinstalling water resources management is highlighted. Where water is one of the basic elements of life on the planet, because it is not limited to meeting the human needs of alcohol consumption, food and agriculture, but rather a major pillar of state economies and environmental systems. In the context of this day, which is celebrated on March 22 of each year, the world will celebrate fresh water and highlight the need to adopt lasting solutions to manage this vital wealth. In this article, we are exposed on this important occasion and the opportunities of Sudan available to benefit from water resources in the context of the reconstruction and construction of water safety strategies.
The United Nations is concentrated in this year’s celebrations on “Ice preservation”, which is a major source of fresh water, which represents around 70% of the water available in the world. However, this question raises a more important problem linked to water management in many countries, including Sudan, which suffers from multiple water challenges in current circumstances, because it is necessary to work to maintain its water resources through effective stages and erased plans that improve stability and reconstruct the water sector.
The celebration of the International Water Day is generally occurring according to international guidelines aimed at strengthening awareness of the importance of water and its sustainable management, because activities are organized by raising awareness among the role of vital water, encouraging international cooperation, by supporting research in modern water technologies and offering sustainable solutions to deal with challenges such as node and pollution. These directors also include community education through workshops and conferences to raise awareness and rationalize water consumption. This was not done in Sudan this year because of the conditions of the war and perhaps the same opportunity has been forgotten in the light of political and administrative instability and the lack of coordination with scientific and research institutions and the countries of the Nile basin.
Despite these internal challenges, these directives remain of the utmost importance, because the emphasis on water management represents a national priority which cannot be postponed. With the absence of official celebrations this year and in recent years, hope remains the importance of restoring these activities as soon as the situation stabilizes, to ensure a future with sustainable water. World Water Day is an important opportunity to rethink the water resources management strategy, especially in the light of our country’s crises.
The problem of emptying groundwater in Sudan is a central problem that requires urgent attention. Studies issued by the Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources indicate that more than 60% of the Sudan population depends on groundwater as the main source of water and estimated at 900 billion cubic meters of pure water in the Nubian basin and a basin A or -Rawaba, which makes the protection of these sources against pollution and splection. Consequently, the government must intensify its efforts to activate the legislation which protects these significant resources and to reduce pollution resulting from an unjust and unprecedented underground drilling, which is one of the devastating practices of the sources of groundwater in the future.
The celebration of this day must be an invitation to cooperate between the various government agencies, such as ministries of irrigation, health and environment, as well as local organizations such as the Ministry of Infrastructure in the State of Khartoum, in order to develop effective strategic plans to protect water resources in Sudan. The State must also improve awareness and training programs linked to the sustainable use of water resources, with the need to seek innovative solutions that guarantee the supply of drinking water for the greatest number of possible citizens, in particular in the fields most affected by conflict and disorders. It is also necessary to benefit from the reconstruction program to improve the water situation linked to water sources, taking into account the water harvesting projects which contribute to supporting development projects and increasing the possibilities of stability of the population.
It is, according to what we see from the face of truth, International Water Day for the year 2025 represents an important station to examine water resources management policies in Sudan and think of a strategic vision that guarantees the sustainability of this vital wealth. It is suitable for the renewal of collective engagement to preserve water as an authentic human right and to work to secure it for future generations through organized policies and ambitious plans. The need to continue the water harvesting projects and the resumption of the “Safariyah thirst” plan which was launched in 2016, because of its great impact on the improvement of living conditions in the Sudanese campaign, by supporting the stability of the population, and by encouraging the return of the displacement, as well as to the widening of the agricultural zone and in a way that contributes to the promotion of sustainable development.
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