Comments on: Egypt Losing its Mighty Nile Drop by Drop

By: Jasmine

Jasmine — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 19:07:05 +0000

“Egypt Losing its Mighty Nile Drop by Drop…”. Since when does the Nile belong to only Egypt? Crappy…get back to your geography class…!

By: Mandela

Mandela — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 04:52:39 +0000

A/win -lose, B/lose-lose C/win-win. Which of above is chosen matters.maximazing the source by supporting environmental rehabilitation matters. By black africans in ‘black continent’.

By: Asmatad

Asmatad — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:37:07 +0000

‘Egypt Losing its Mighty Nile Drop by Drop?’ The title does not accurately describes the content of the article. I couldn’t see any concrete justification for the title in the article.

Ethiopia is constructing a dam and has planned to construct other dames along the Nile river. The main objective of these projects is generating hydroelectric power. Hydropower development is the main pillar for economic development in Ethiopia and Nile is the largest river that would produce the largest share. The projects on the Nile river in Ethiopia has strong support and commitment from the people and government of Ethiopia.

The Ethiopian government has granted that the construction of these dams would not affect Egypt and Sudan and Ethiopia has no intention to affect Sudan and Egypt. It is understandable to raise questions regarding the sustainability and the long term impacts of these projects, if the question is genuine and would consider economic and social impacts of these projects in the upstream countries, especially in Ethiopia. But crying by putting unacceptable and unjustifiable article headlines is offensive and not important for the region.

By: tsegay

tsegay — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:52:09 +0000

isnt it our right to use what ever nature give us????????????? what the Egyptians told us is site down and wait/beg for our help…. hahahaha they r kidding we r united to do what ever to use our resources no matter how hard it is but we will manege our natural gifts and other things…

By: zolba

zolba — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:22:19 +0000

You would think the first thing Egypt would do is avoid the unncessary losses. Pipe in the water instead let it evaporate. Sudan should do the same. Its not a laxury you bathe in or have shipping resports on. Dismantle the wasteful dams in Egypt and Sudan. That is the most mindless thing, its like placing a plate filled in water and putting it in an oven. It will evaporate in no time. Instead use the naturally cool and high mountains in Ethiopia that can have smaller surface area and deep water reservoirs. The means Egypt and Sudan should buy electricity from Ethiopia.

The other thing is the future supply of water for Egypt. As its population grows its going to need more and more water. How can Egypt sustain that. The soulution is to use cleaning technology to purify sea water. Ethiopia is land locked and can’t do that. In this case Egypt will be faced with the moral obligation to release its Nile water rights 100% in the future.

Its better to think it over from the perspective of a win-win for all, rather than saying Abay is my historical belonging.

By: warrior

warrior — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:14:02 +0000

Dear freinds,

there are only two option for egypt, 1. to accept the new threaty that is signed in uganda which reduces the nile share of egypt where as reduces poverty in upper countries like ethiopia. 2. to open war against upper countries mainly with ethiopia and colonize it and take all the sourch of nile…

but the second option seems to be a nignt mare as ETHIOPIA HAS NEVER BEEN DEFETED BY ITS ENEMY, i mean since pre hitorical time!!!!!!!!!
if the Egyptain want to check their chance, they can try but the out come could be cathatrophic. In one side, whole egypt is along the nile river which is very easy for air strik, and destryoying just the aswan dam could finish egypt, and this so simple for the ethiopia air force that has extensive war experience.
but i wish both countries negotiate and take their part

By: Ethiopian

Ethiopian — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:09:52 +0000

charkos,
are you really Ethiopian ?
I doubt, because both Ethiopia and the other upstream countries intendto use (or already use) Nile water for IRRIGATION. After all aren’t they the source of the river, with Ethiopia contributing 86%. Egypt reportedly uses 85% of “its share” of the Nile waters for agriculture. There you see the solution. Egypt has to either completely stop using Nile water for agriculture or reduce it substantially so that the upstream countries can have at least 50 % of the river’s water for their use.
I heard Kenya is soon to start using Nile water for irrigation, and Ethiopia is already using Nile water for irrigation in the Tana Beles project, but still not as much as Sudan and Egypt. Imagine Ethiopia has 3 to 4 million hectare land that could be irrigated, the largest part is along the Nile.

By: Karin Kloosterman

Karin Kloosterman — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:40:50 +0000

In reply to Ewout. People in developing countries have many children because they compensate for the fact that some will die. If we can improve the standard of living for people, there will be less interest in having 7 kids per family.

By: Ewout

Ewout — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 19:46:12 +0000

“Farmers like Abuleinin worry about the future for his seven children.”

That says it all. If he and his countrymen only had two children for a number of generations, things might be manageable. In this form, it will get out of hand sooner or later, no matter how much Nile water there is.

By: Xoussef

Xoussef — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:56:45 +0000

Charkos: Using water for electric generation results in the loss of huge amounts of water. Dams creates lakes that have huge surfaces sitting there under the sun. Water evaporates. Lake Nasser itself accounts for much of Egypt’s losses.
Egypt is unreasonable though, other countries have every right on the water on their soils, and for all the Egyptians’ proclaimed “love” for the Nile, it basically is used as an open air sewer.