Sentence examples for upstream country from inspiring English sources

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

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

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.

Egyptian water experts said that the upstream countries wasted colossal amounts of water that run off unused into swamps.

Having drunk from the Nile in each of its five upstream countries, he is not taking chances in the land of the pharaohs, where the river is not as clean.

Usually upstream countries dominate control of a river, like the Tigris and Euphrates, which are much reduced by the time they flow into Iraq from Turkey and Syria.

Uzbekistan has also unilaterally closed most border checkpoints with both upstream countries, set mines along parts of the boundary with Tajikistan, and often holds up commercial traffic.

Those officials see the dam as a chance to make right a colonial-era wrong that has preserved most of the Nile's water for Egypt while leaving little benefit for upstream countries.