![]() ![]() President Anwar Sadat said in 1979, “The only matter that could take Egypt to war again is water. The Nile River The river begins in mountains in eastern Africa, flows north through Sudan and Egypt, and ends in the Mediterranean Sea. The River Nile, known as the father of the African River, is Africa and the world’s longest river, stretching approximately 6,650 kilometers from its sources (Blue and White Nile) to the mouth at the Mediterranean Sea. ![]() In the Nile basin, the downstream nation, Egypt, controls the region’s most powerful. Growing populations throughout all the basin’s nations are demanding access to more water. In a river basin, conflict is most likely to emerge when the downstream nation is militarily stronger than upstream nations, and the downstream nation believes its interests in the shared water resource are threatened by the actions of the upstream nations. ![]() Fortunately, the Nile Basin Institute has created a framework for agreement on riparian rights. Yet, downstream, the Nile sustains crops in Egypt’s deserts for export. AT 4,132 mi (6,650 km) long, the Nile River is the longest river in the world. It is over 4,100 miles long The Nile is located in northwest Africa and flows through many different African. Lack of irrigation rights greatly reduces Ethiopia’s agricultural output, contributing to dependence on food aid by 2 million Ethiopians. The Nile River is the longest river in the world. The 1959 Nile Waters Treaty grants usage of 87% of the Nile’s fresh water to Egypt and 13% to Sudan - but no water rights are granted to Ethiopia, even though the Blue Nile’s first 1,529 miles are in that country. The delta is the heart of farming in Egypt, and. It represents the life artery for the people of the Nile Basin in. High sediment loads from increased deforestation and agriculture have severe environmental consequences and poor sanitation creates dangerous health issues. The Nile creates a narrow river valley through the desert before widening in the north into the Nile Delta. Nile River is the major water resource in the Northeastern quarter of the African continent. From then forward, they fixed their attention on the mysterious White Nile, which arose much further south on the Continent. Climate change is predicted to shorten wet seasons, increase precipitation and intensify dry periods in the Nile Basin, which already faces chronic drought and deforestation. By the early nineteenth century, European explorers had shown that the Blue Nile, which supplies much of the water for the Nile, was a shorter river, arising only in neighboring Ethiopia. ![]()
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