The current legal framework for pollution control in the Niger River Basin relative to SDG 6.3

ABSTRACT

Numerous laws and regulations have been adopted by the Niger Basin Authority (NBA) and its member countries against pollution of the Niger River from runoff, waste disposal and sewage discharges. Participating countries also subscribe to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.3. Yet legal instruments for effluent discharge are not defined for a core set of parameters used to monitor basic ambient water quality for attaining SDG 6.3. We provide recommendations for addressing this problem.

KEYWORDS:

• Basin wide
• pollution
• legal framework
• SDG 6.3
• Niger River

Acknowledgements

The authors conducted this work under employment by their respective institutions of the Institut Polytechnique Rural de Formation et de Recherche Appliquée of Katibougou, the National School of Engineers of Bamako, Mali, and the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria. The authors also express their gratitude to the anonymous people who accepted to review and proofread their manuscript.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Supplementary material

Supplementary data for this article can be accessed at https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2022.2073756