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by ANDREW CARLSON of threats and conflicts in the Nile E E g y p t a n d t h e N i i l l e
River Basin. Downriver Egypt and
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rights to the water upon which they The Nile has been essential for
Editor's Note: absolutely depend—and in 1979 civilization in Egypt and Sudan.
Egypt and Sudan are utterly de- Without that water, there would have
pendent on the waters of the Nile Egyptian President Anwar Sadat been no food, no people, no state,
threatened war on violators of what
River. Over the past century both of he saw as his country’s rights to Nile and no monuments. As Herodutus
these desert countries have built sev- waters. Upriver Ethiopia, Kenya, famously wrote in the 5th century
eral dams and reservoirs, U g a n d a , B.C.E., “Egypt is the gift of the
hoping to limit the ravages of A rendering of the Grand R w a n d a , Nile.”
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source of most of the Nile expected to profoundly change expected to profoundly change that they groups in Egypt, Ethiopia, and Su-
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the Blue Nile twenty five nates on
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with Sudan, the Grand Renaissance
Dam begins a new chapter in the Since the twelfth century C.E.
long, bellicose history of debate on Christian Ethiopian kings have
the ownership of the Nile waters, warned Muslim Egyptian sultans of
and its effects for the entire region their power to divert waters of the
could be profound. Nile, often in response to religious
conflicts. But these were hypothetical
On water and environmental is- threats.
sues, readers may also want to see
these Origins articles: World Water Today, however, Ethiopia is build-
Crisis; The Changing Arctic; Climate ing the Grand Renaissance Dam and,
Change and Human Population; with it, Ethiopia will physically con-
Global Food Crisis; and Over- trol the Blue Nile Gorge—the pri-
Fishing. mary source of most of the Nile wa-
ters.
In the fall of 2012 newspapers
around the world reported on a The stakes could not be higher for
Wikileaks document, surreptitiously the new leaders in Egypt and Ethio-
acquired from Stratfor, the Texas pia, President Mohamed Morsi and dan share architecture and engineer-
security company, revealing Egyptian Prime Minister Hailemariam De- ing, ideas and traditions of religion
and Sudanese plans to build an air- salegn, as well as Sudan’s long-time and political organization, languages
strip for bombing a dam in the Blue President, Omar El Bashir. The stakes and alphabets, food and agricultural
Nile River Gorge in Ethiopia. The are perhaps even higher for the mil- practices.
Egyptian and Sudanese governments lions of people who owe their liveli-
denied the reports. hood and very existence to the Nile’s
Whether or not there were such waters. Continued on next page
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