Sentence examples for upstream countries from inspiring English sources

With Mubarak's overthrow, a new optimism surfaced in the upstream countries.

Additionally, estimated marginal values imply that the upstream countries have upper hand positions regarding their geographic and climatic contexts.

At the international level, water conflicts, such as the one in the Nile river basin between Egypt and the upstream countries, make the news.

But Turkey, along with China and Burundi, refused to sign the agreement, a sign of reluctance on the part of major upstream countries to cede their dominant positions.

Egypt and Sudan have until May 2011 to resume negotiations, or else the upstream countries will activate the new agreement.

The threat of losing Nile water has animated Egypt, which until recently had virtually ignored the upstream countries.

However, India does not respect those same laws in respect to Bangladesh, where it is the upstream country.

In cases of extreme complexity, groundwater resources in one country may come from infiltration of runoff generated in an upstream country, so making it difficult to distinguish between internal and external water resources.

There are many agreements between Mozambique and upstream neighbouring countries regulating the use of shared watercourses.

Further afield, the region's complicated water politics, where upstream and downstream countries have diametrically opposed needs and aims, threaten to intensify.

Second, we classify marked issues into three aspects: (1) the contradiction between livelihood development and environmental protection, (2) the imbalance between the principle of "common but different" and the guideline of maximizing national interests and (3) the conflict between the support and opposition for hydropower development in the Mekong between upstream and downstream countries.