Abstract The Lesotho Highlands Water Project, which exports water to South Africa, has enhanced the unequal structural relationship that exists between both states. Lesotho, one of the few countries in the world that exports water, has transformed from one of the largest sources of labor for South Africa to a water reservoir for South Africa. Though the project provides mutual strategic economic and political benefits to both riparian states, its construction has negatively affected environmental and human security in Lesotho. Due to hydropolitics, environmental threats in Lesotho caused by the project's construction are overlooked. These threats, which have devastating effects on resettled communities and the country's ecosystem, also constitute a threat to domestic and international security. The desire to prevent interstate conflict and maintain cooperation between the two riparian states further enhances the lopsided interstate relationship.

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水政治与人类安全：南非占用莱索托高地水资源的影响

摘要 向南非出口水的莱索托高地水利项目强化了两国之间存在的不平等结构关系。莱索托是世界上少数几个出口水的国家之一，它已经从南非最大的劳动力来源之一转变为南非的蓄水池。尽管该项目为两个沿岸国家提供了共同的战略经济和政治利益，但其建设对莱索托的环境和人类安全产生了负面影响。由于水文政治，项目建设对莱索托造成的环境威胁被忽视了。这些威胁对重新安置的社区和国家的生态系统造成破坏性影响，也对国内和国际安全构成威胁。