For Egypt, new Sudan state threat to Nile

On the Nile, Egypt cuts water use as Ethiopia dams for power

"Egypt deals with the Nile water issue as a life-and-death matter," said Moufid Shehab, Egypt's minister of state for legal and parliamentary affairs. "The River Nile provides Egypt with 95% of the country's water needs."

The 4,160-mile-long Nile is formed by the White Nile, which originates near Lake Victoria in Uganda, and the Blue Nile, which begins at Lake Tana in Ethiopia. They converge in Sudan and flow north through the length of Egypt before spilling into the Mediterranean Sea.

The river winds through poverty and turmoil and is vital for economic growth to sustain rising populations. It is a lesson in how water can dictate a nation's future, and threaten or preserve regional stability.

"The way forward," Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told Al Jazeera satellite TV channel, "is not for Egypt to try and stop the unstoppable."

Tensions Rise Over Access to the Nile River

Five African countries assert claim to Nile waters, but Egypt does not want to share

Several central African countries where the Nile originates are asserting their rights to use the waters for irrigation and hydropower, but Egypt, where the fabled river is largest and flows into the Mediterranean Sea, has unequivocally stated its opposition to a new division of the Nile's water. There is even talk of war.

The fabled river begins high in the Ethiopian mountains where an ancient monastery watches over the sacred Gish Abbai spring. The waters bubbling out of the ground feed Lake Tana then spill into a gorge to become the Blue Nile.

Egypt warns that new Nile agreement could prove a 'death sentence'

Comment: it is already a death sentence, Mullahs! The upper Riparian Nations must unite and void this malicious treaty between Egypt and England. Where is Human Rights Watch, which is based in New York and London?

New Nile agreement a wake-up call for Egypt: analysts

Comment: It is time to repeal this Old Colonial Treaty (Old Nile Treaty) which prohibits the Upper Riparian nations from utilizing this natural resource. The British Government might be asked to compensate the Ethiopians.

Four Nile Basin states sign agreement on usage of River Nile waters, Egypt, Sudan decline

Nile treaties are malicious and must be renegotiated (The Daily Nation)

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