Nile Basin InitiativeThe following paper examines the Nile question from an Egyptian perspective. The Nile is Egypt's main source of water, and 96% of this water originates from outside of its territory. This explains why water is a key security issue for Egypt, and why, from Egypt's ...
But the Nile is one of the longest rivers in the world, and one of the two major sources of the mighty Nile starts in Ethiopia at what is known as the Blue Nile at Lake Tana. The Blue Nile is the source of 85% of the Nile water. The second source starts lower down in Uganda ...
In its annual report on trade exchange between Egypt and the Nile basin countries in 2017, Egypt's Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAMPAS) said exports to Nile Basin countries witnessed an increase of 72.1 percent in 2017. The Nile Basin countries are Sudan, Ethiopia, Ug...
The Lower Paleozoic rocks in Egypt include surface and subsurface rock units of formational status. The surface rock units are the Taba, Araba and Naqus formations. The subsurface rock units include the Shifa, Kohla and Basur formations. The Infracambrian Taba Formation has been discovered ...
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Indeed “in Lower Nubia the cultivable land area is seldom more than a few hundred yards in width and at not a few points, especially on the west bank, the desert advances clear up to the river brink” (Baedeker, Egypt, 1908, p. 376). The general aspect of the Nubian desert is ...
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Now flooded by the new High Dam at Aswan, the valley between the first and second cataracts was Lower Nubia; southward is Upper Nubia. Nubia was the Biblical Cush (q.v.), and its history was closely bound up with that of Egypt. Within Egypt proper, the Nile valley is rarely more ...
According to archaeologists, the "remnants of the tomb consist of the lower part of a small mud-brick pyramid surrounded by an enclosure wall, also built of mud bricks." In front of the pyramid lies a burial shaft where the toppled head of a life-size royal sandstone statue of the ...
that the overall reduction in the flow of the Nile resulting from the construction of the dam has caused the inundation of the lower reaches of the river by saltwater from theMediterranean Sea, with resultingdepositionof salt in the delta soils; and that the creation of Lake Nasser has caused...