White Nile

I mean, if you don't have the Nile River, Egypt is, is toast because, you know, 95% of the people in Egypt live along the Nile.

And there's two main rivers that come into the Nile, the White Nile and the Blue Nile.

The Blue Nile comes through Ethiopia.

So they've built a dam up in Ethiopia called the GERD dam, and the GERD dam, uh, I've checked, uh, at how much they can let go at a maximum amount of time.

Abroad, he sounds like a threat.

eritrea ethiopia's former ally of convenience during that last tigray war here's a possible claim on its coastline now somalia here's another challenge to its sovereignty already having to deal with ethiopian deals through somaliland keeps insisting it's an individual country of his own right now even though it's only israel that recognizes it and of course israel has done that because israel wants to put a foothold there Egypt's implicated too, already having its dispute with Ethiopia over the River Nile and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, or GERD, which Egypt fears can be used to reduce the water flow from the Blue Nile, thereby limiting the amount of water reaching Egypt by the White Nile, which the Blue Nile flows into.

Sudan is fighting its own civil war still, of course, and watching its own borders.

There is serious reporting that the UAE is supplying weapons for Sudan's RSF forces, of course.

There's a lot of, uh, water infrastructure that's been removed that people are not aware of, and they're not gonna be aware of it until they get a big rain and they get some other, uh, you know...

But when, when you look at places like Egypt, Egypt is basically the Nile River.

I mean, if you don't have the Nile River, Egypt is d- is toast because, you know, 95% of the people in Egypt live along the Nile.

And there's two main rivers that come into the Nile, the White Nile and the Blue Nile, and the Blue Nile comes through Ethiopia.

So they've built a dam up in Ethiopia called the GERD dam.

The findings demonstrate that conflict-affected regions can sustain significant biodiversity, and warrant inclusion in conservation efforts.

The research reveals active gene flow between isolated giraffe populations, challenging the previous assumption that the white Nile driver created an insurmountable barrier to genetic exchange.

I think it's both a good, happy story and a sad story because even though they're talking about a gene pool and a healthy gene pool, they are talking about a 95% reduction in the giraffe numbers, from 15,000 to only 235 individuals.

So...

At Khartoum the single channel in which the river flowed divides, and two other streams are opened up in a southerly direction, each of them apparently equal in volume to the main stream.

Which is the true Nile? Is it the Blue Nile, which seems to come down from the distant mountains? Or is it the White Nile, which has traversed the immense plains of equatorial Africa? The old Egyptians never knew.

The river kept the secret of its source from them as obstinately as it withheld it from us until a few years ago.

Vainly did their victorious armies follow the Nile for months together as they pursued the tribes who dwelt upon its banks, only to find it as wide, as full, as irresistible in its progress as ever.

Isis has had no devotees for centuries, and her very name is unknown to the descendants of her worshippers, but the tradition of her fertilizing tears has survived her memory.

Even to this day, everyone in Egypt, Muslim or Christian, knows that a divine drop falls from heaven during the night between the 17th and 18th of June, and forthwith brings about the rise of the Nile.

Swollen by the rains which fall in February over the region of the Great Lakes, the White Nile rushes northward, sweeping before it the stagnant sheets of water left by the inundation of the previous year.

On the left, the Bar el Ghazal brings it to the overflow of the ill-defined basin stretching between Darfur and the Congo, and the Sobat pours in on the right a tribute from the rivers which burrow the southern slopes of the Abyssinian mountains.

When it comes to the surface, it snorts in a terrible manner and can be heard at a great distance.

It is never found far away from its native element, to which it beats a retreat at the least alarm Travelers along the White Nile and in Central Africa often encounter enormous herds of these ungainly creatures, sometimes lying in the water, their huge heads projecting like the summit of a rock, sometimes basking on the shore in the muddy ooze or grazing on the riverbank, for this animal is a strict vegetarian, and the broad fields of grain and rice along the upper Nile suffer constantly from its depredations.

The hippopotamus is a hideous-looking beast.

It has an enormous mouth armed with four great tusks that appear viciously prominent beneath its great leathern lips.

The Nile has played a central role in the environmental, economic, and cultural history of Africa for millennia.

The Nile has two major tributaries, the White Nile and the Blue Nile.

The White Nile is longer and is considered to be the headwaters, yet the Blue Nile contributes over twice the water volume of the White Nile.

The White Nile begins near Lake Victoria and flows through Uganda and South Sudan, while the Blue Nile begins near Lake Tana in Ethiopia and flows into Sudan from the southeast.

The two rivers meet at the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.

From there, the Nile flows north through the Nubian Desert to Egypt's capital, Cairo, and finally empties into the Mediterranean Sea near Alexandria, where it has formed a large river delta.

The basin can be divided into seven regions.

Five of these regions encompass the longest course of the Nile.