5 Paragraphs On Water Conflict

Recently a conflict erupted between Egypt and Ethiopia as Egypt rejects Ethiopian project ' Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam' which is going to be built on the Nile River. The Nile flows through the north-eastern part of Africa. The source of the Nile is Lake Victoria and its mouth is in the Mediterranean Sea. As an international river the Nile passes through many countries, it passes through: Egypt, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Eretria, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Republic of the Congo and Burundi. The Nile is considered the longest river in the world with as it is 6,853 km long. In 1882, the British Administration on Egypt started. The British realized since the occupation the importance of controlling the Nile and the importance of agriculture in Egypt, as it helps in strengthen the British economy and they were interested in the high quality –also cheap- cotton grown in Egypt in order to using it in the Textile mills in Lancashire so they stop depending on the American cotton. Britain was interested in establishing an empire on the Nile for the maximum usage of its water –however Britain wasn't so successful in doing that- and it managed to get Egypt and Sudan large portions of water compared to the other countries in the Nile basin as they were very beneficial to Britain.

In June, 2010 Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Kenya signed an agreement called 'Entebbe Agreement'. The downstream countries -Egypt and Sudan- rejected this agreement as it discards the historical water portions of both Egypt (55.5 billion cubic meters) and Sudan (18.5 billion cubic meters) and adapting a more fair distribution of the water. The Entebbe Agreement can be considered as the beginning of the Egyptian-Ethiopian conflict over the Nile as after it the Egyptian-Ethiopian relation started to crack.

Back to 1964 the Ethiopian government started thinking of building a dam. However in 2009 and 2010 a site was determined and a design was made for building the