ABSTRACT
The Niger Basin Authority (NBA) is a subregional organization shared by
nine countries of West Africa and the center (Benin, Burkina, Ivory Coast, Cameroon,
Guinea, Mali Niger, Nigeria and Chad). The politics of the Niger River water
management always remains actuality to reach the objectives of sustainable
development. The stakes of the Niger river water resource management are
important, because they present themselves in terms of health, food,
socio-economic, financiers, environmental, politics and géopolitics. From where
the necessity to adopt the IWRM (Integrated Water ResourcesManagement) as a
means of sustainable management. It is therefore essential to go through the
diagnosis of all the problems related to this water resource in the Niger basin
and to make the promotion of a rational and sustainable management, in order to
ensure fairness between the different users, a healthy water, the durability of
water resource and the fairness of the system; while facilitating the
political, social and economic integration between the member states with
development perspectives wthin the framework of the shared vision.