Sudd

Another scheme contemplates the erection of a dam at Lake Tsana on the highlands of Abyssinia, which will make that lake a reservoir for the Blue Nile and enable it to water the fertile plain which lies between the Blue and White Niles ending at Khartoum.

The great trouble now is that a large part of the waters of the Nile go to waste, particularly in the swamps of the Sudd region.

These mighty swamps lie on the northern slope of the Congo watershed and are fed by the branches of the White Nile known as the Bar el Jebel, the Bar el Ghazal, and the Bar el Zaraf.

They begin where the river Sobat flows into the Nile and form an irregular triangle, the base running from that point two hundred miles westward with the southern apex at Bor, which is two or three hundred miles farther south.

This sponge is near the equator where the tropical sun beats down upon it, so that stream is always rising.

It sucks up the waters of the Nile and gives them out into the air.

The evaporation in the Sudd and along the courses of the Nile is so great that an amount equal to half the capacity of the Aswan reservoir is lost every day.

In the summer, fully fifty percent of the water supplied by the Great Lakes never gets into the mainstream of the Nile.

So.

Well, yeah, and I guess some of the, um, most famous sites that have sort of m- more consistent shoebill sightings include the Sudd in, uh, South Sudan, the, um, Mabamba swamps in Uganda, and the Bangwe, Bangweulu wetlands in Zambia.

I'm so sorry if I butchered those pronunciations.

But they are sort of the most famous sites for this species.