Reports that Angola and Namibia are committed to also list their side of the Okavango basin as a World Heritage Site under the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) comes as a relief to Botswana that the country’s prestigious Okavango Delta will be secure from potential threats emerging from upstream that could lead to its ecological collapse. The new developments comes as an assurance to Botswana that Angola and Namibia may genuinely indeed have no intentions whatsoever of harming Botswana’s wetland resource. The fourth longest river system in Southern Africa originates from the Angolan highlands passing through Namibia on its way into Botswana’s Okavango Delta. This then means that the existence of Botswana’s Okavango Delta is mainly depended on the water fed by the Cubango and Cuito Rivers from Angola and the Kavango River from Namibia. Disturbing reports emerged in the past few years that the two countries were allegedly constructing massive water channels from their sides that diverts water from flowing abundantly down into the Okavango Delta. Namibia was reportedly considering extracting water from Kavango River to use for power generation, agriculture and to supply their capital Windhoek. There was also reported increased agricultural development places in…