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Show Treaty Series No, 33 (1925) I4.3 The River Juba - Great Britain and Italy December ¦ 2i+, 1915 When this treaty was entered into by Great Britain and Italy, the Juba was the boundary between Italian Somaliland and Kenya Colony* Since the World War, Great Britain has permitted Italy to move the Somaliland boundary further south with the result that the Juba today is no longer an international stream as between Kenya and Italian Somalilando But for a period of several years the use of the waters of the Juba -was subject to the provisions of this treaty. The region involved was relatively undeveloped, but dependent on irrigation for any and all crops * " The treaty provides for a permanent mixed commission to give effect to the agreements for the administration of the Juba and to study and present further regulations for the consideration of the two Governments- Existing irrigation and other uses of the water to be registered with the commission and protected* Hydrographic records to be kept and both Governments to promulgate identic laws and regulations governing diversions of water from the river. Provision is made for the acquisition of new rights to uses of water through local and commission authority. Any applications of large new diversions to be carefully studied as to their effect on navigation. The treaty contains; as well, regulations for customs transit across the river^ conservation of the river's channel and for navigation. Annex IV of the treaty provides; ¦ ''The system of irrigation with ditches actually used by the natives on either bank of the stream should be maintained subject to the adequate protection of the river banks and waterhead works, vhich should be enforced without unnecessary severity toward the natives." (Article in) and thats and that-: "The watering places of the Somalis are to be numbered and registered and the rights of the Somalis protectedo" (Article IV) ¦ • "It is advisable that irrigation works on a large scale should nob be sanctioned without a careful in- vestigation by the Permanent Commissionj, seeing that they are liable to curtail the annual period during which the River is navigable oft .-17- |
