OKACOM

The establishment of the Permanent Okavango River Basin Water Commission owes its origins from the water scarcity challenges that the basin states were experiencing in the early 1990s. Namibia and Botswana through their National Water Master Plans began to explore prospects for enhanced water resource capacity to maintain their socio-economic growth. Among other considerations were prospects to draw water from the Okavango, the Cunene and the Chobe rivers. Projects for water transfer were conceived to water the less endowed parts of the countries and this brought about the need for starting transboundary dialogue to propose the establishment of technical water commissions that could study water development projects and advise the respective Governments about the most appropriate course of future action.