Nile Basin countries told to reduce impact of climate change on Nile RiverKeith Hayward
Nile basin hydrologyGlobal climate is changing and this is apparent across the Nile basin countries in a wide range of observations. The global warming of the past 50 years is primarily due to human activities, climate change is already affecting the Nile basin people in far-reaching ways. ...
The Nile has affected the politics of East Africa and the Horn of Africa for a number of decades. Countries such as Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan and Kenya have complained about the Egyptian domination of water resource. The Nile Basin promotes a peaceful cooperation. There are several attempts that ...
Nile Day is an annual event held in commemoration of the establishment of the unprecedented Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) on February 22, 1999, by ministers in charge of water affairs in the Nile Basin countries. Nile Day provides an opportunity for Basin citizens to come together to celebrate t...
By 2050, the population of the Nile Basin countries is projected to more than double from around 400 million to 1 billion. This, along with changes in the climate and the desired socioeconomic transformation, will put even greater pressure on Nile Basin water resources, according to experts. ...
are discussed inJessica Barnes,Cultivating the Nile: The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt(2014);Terje Tvedt(ed.),The River Nile in the Post-Colonial Age: Conflict and Cooperation Among the Nile Basin Countries(2010); andJohn Waterbury,The Nile Basin: National Determinants of Collective ...
Basin irrigation from the Nile floods is used to a small extent, but it is less satisfactory in these areas because the surface is more uneven, with less deposition of silt; the area inundated also varies from year to year. Since about 1950 these traditional methods of irrigation have been ...
and Rwanda. All nine countries of the Nile basin have signed a treaty giving each country a fair share of the Nile river water. According to the treaty Egypt the right of veto over any work which might threaten the flow of the river. The Nile Water Agreement of 1929 grants Egypt 55.5 ...
The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) is a hydrological simulation tool that is widely applied within the Nile basin. Up to date, more than 20 peer reviewed papers describe the use of SWAT for a variety of problems in the upper Nile basin countries, such as erosion modeling, land use...
Were you to hitchhike a ride on a satellite, you could see the Nile River in its entirety. For almost4,250 milesthe While Nile snakes through nine countries, from the Delta region of Lower Egypt all the way to Lake Victoria, the biggest of the African Great Lakes. ...