served as the stage for the evolution and decay of advanced civilizations in the ancient world. On the banks of the river dwelled people who were among the first tocultivatethe arts of agriculture and to use the plow. The basin is bordered on the north by the Mediterranean; on the east ...
River basins such as the Nile River Basin are subjected to various types of modifications and impacts by human activities and nature. There has been a growing need to study, understand and quantify the impacts of these modifications on the hydrologic regime; both on water quantity and quality. ...
On the other side, the Nile was the ultimate portal for people and goods across the lands of Cairo and Africa, especially among the countries of the Nile Basin. At earlier times, the ancient used primitive boats of wood to exchange goods and merchandise through the Nile. These exchanges ...
When you look at a map, the Nile River stands out as a lifeline running through the heart of Egypt. Originating from Lake Victoria in East Africa, the river flows northward, passing through several countries before reaching the Mediterranean Sea. Its vast network of tributaries and distributarie...
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 ...
Written and fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia BritannicaThe Nile is Africa’s longest river, it and its principal tributaries traversing parts of 10 countries and several different physiographic regions. As such, the river and its environs are home to many fascinating species of plants ...
Map of River Nile The leading fact in regard to the position of Victoria Nyanza in the general hydrography of Central Africa is that by none of its affluents is it connected with any of the other great "equatorial" lakes. Tangayika lies in a trough about 1400 feet lower. Between the Vi...
Walking through the Hapi Hall will lead to the Nile Basin Countries, or El Patio hall, that gives such an immersive feeling of the wilderness via sound effects of animal whereabouts, life-size jungles and water streaming from a fountain representing the Nile. ...
Further rapid population growth is expected, and the population has been predicted to increase to 648 million inhabitants in the riparian countries in 2030 (NBI, 2012). Download: Download high-res image (1MB) Download: Download full-size image Fig. 1. (a) Map of the Nile River Basin and ...
Bulletin of the National Research Centre (2024) 48:30 Page 3 of 20 Fig. 1 A map showing the countries covered by the Nile River basin a Abd Ellah (2020) and b the Nile water basin map—adopted from Madani et al. (2011) and industrial waste discharge (El-Sheekh...