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The River Nile. One of the world’s most ancient and legendary waterways, bringing life to otherwise inhospitable regions of Egypt.
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But the Nile is slowly dying, its tributaries and channels drying up and threatening the livelihoods of millions who depend on its nourishing waters. Some of this is the natural cycle of the river - parts of the Nile have dried up before, making entire cities like ancient Meroe vanish. But a major construction project upriver is further endangering the life of the river. We explore what’s happening and look at the possible solutions to this impending tragedy.
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Voice-Over: Sophie Kozeluh
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Egypt isn't Arab, however, and merely being majority Muslim doesn't mean it's an "Arab state," either.
Egypt has Arab (western Asian) and European extractions interwoven within its population, but it is an African nation populated largely by African ethnicities, such as the Amazigh.
Is there anything on earth that isn't: melting, drying, dying, disappearing, becoming endangered, being forgotten, etc?
[Alright, thanks for all the replies guys, but many of you are starting to say the same thing over and over. Please stay respectful, and if you see someone already make the same point you wanted to, there's no need to comment]
Depressing huh😒
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The Nile was a lot closer to the pyramids during ancient times.
it was to facilitate transport of building materials you mean?
Z no he means it been drying out already for a long time plus they wanna build a dam to hold water off from egypt and like you seen al kt of animals and humans will suffer its sad they wanna rise wich is so
Ething i agree with and support but there should be a different solution so nobody will get harmed
Patricia Ayong first of all Egypt has a second name mother of the world or the motherland basically since the beginning of times the nile river there were never problems and everyone was benefiting from it there even used to happen manny floods in Egypt till last time if i am correct it happened the last time when they had to relocate the abu simil temple cuz i god flouded there were no dams back then either plus why would you let us suffer from drinking water since the inhabitants of Egypt are over 110 million? All i said we have to work it together so we both (Ethiopia) Can rise and even have better ties in the future why the negativity and hate white skin Egyptian, Arabs, Nubian ,Greeks, farao’s etc... are all part of egypt on 1 January 1956 Sudan got its independence from Egypt cuz of the uk power and divided the the whole world together with france including Ethiopia so please we had always blacks in our community we just got divided and btw till this day egypt is the one running the education system in Sudan till university so we you could tell we got along since its a holy land that had mixtures from all over the world thats how its existed through history you can’t judge us for that even through times egypt has always through history been standing for everyone with open arms and it a country thats been through wars a-lot this is maybe the first time that we live in peace since the beginning of times our last war was with israel in 1973 so you can seen we been through a lot and are even rising and rebuilding in Egypt to cover everybody expect ions about us and our role in the region. And Islam came and freed the Christians from Rome . The Muslim conquest of Egypt by the Arabs took place between 639 and 646 AD and was overseen by the Rashidun Caliphate. It ended the centuries long period of Roman/Byzantine reign (beginning in 30 BC) over Egypt. Byzantine rule in the country had been shaken, as Egypt had been conquered and occupied for a decade by the Sassanid Empire in 618-629, before being recovered by the Byzantine emperor Heraclius. The Caliphate took advantage of the Byzantines' exhaustion and captured Egypt ten years after its reconquest by Heraclius. Just google the city Pelusiumand you will understand the history how islam came in peace . Please reply back i like meaningful discussions.
@@Kelberi Because the Nile was much bigger back then. They even stated it here. It used to have 3 major tribitories but currently "Yellow" Nile had dryied up (its only an oasis here and there). The Blue Nile (from Etheopia) is currently been Dammed and the speed of which they fill the reservoar is the problem because it will lower the watter lvl drastically (considering its the main tribitory). White Nile from lake Victoria doesnt have the capacity to maintain the flow.
@@elsawi11193 - The Abu Simbel monuments were relocated to higher ground because they would have otherwise been submerged by the building of the Aswan High Dam. I visited Abu Simbel in Feb 2017, also other parts of Egypt, such great history, I hope to go back in next few years now that the GEM is completed. Need to visit Alexandria too. I have traveled the world and Egypt is one of the most interesting countries because of its very long history and grand structures, pyramids, temples, monuments, statues, items from the past.
We went on vacation to Egypt, two years ago, flew down to Aswan to tour the great dam , and we got on a river cruise upwards towards Cairo. what really amazed me was the facts that, how ow the river flow decreases so much north from the dam and also I was so impressed to witness how a Country of 100 mil people depends almost 100% on the river Nile for every aspect of their lives.
I took the 15 hours train from Alexandria to Cairo then Aswan in September 2021. There was not a cruise from Cairo to Aswan which would be much relaxing. Our tour to Abu SIMBUL started at 3am😭, it was 100F almost daily. I also got to visit philae temple before my Nile cruise up to luxor. I continued on to the Sinai peninsular- hurgada, Sharm ElSheik, dahab Neweiba took the night ferry to Aqaba Jordan.
@@worldcitizeng6507 You might need eye glasses then. Lol. Aswan up the river to Luxor.
I love Egypt.
Egyptians are very polite
and hospitality. Very good people. I love them. I miss them.
Very good and delitious food.
@@khinwinthet3299 yeah they are polite as long as you are a tourist.
I was in Egypt recently,the drive from sharm el sheikh to Cairo made me understand just how unpolulated Egypt is.
It was a total contrast to the Nile region which I visited some years back. I think it`s tough surviving in such a deserted area.
Yeah, all the Egyptians are in the United States.
I was posted in Sharm El Sheik. Called it dirty Vegas.
Deserted as in Sandy or lonely one??
@@LIZZIE-lizzie Most rich Egyptians may be living in America.
The masses are always the less economy ones, the poor ones always suffer.
@@jimmy_rizo the Sinai peninsular in Egypt is rocky in the middle and north. Dahab on the Red Sea is a world famous diving site with the Blue 🕳 hole. Divers even dice at might, I saw their 🔦 from the beach at night. I hike up Moses mountain and visited the st Catherine monetary after sunrise at 5am. I also spent 3 nights at the Neweiba beach 🛖 20 feet from the Red Sea. It's no a mass tourism area like the Niles River pyramids and temples, the Sinai peninsular is like a different country. I made short videos of my Egypt trip , feel free to check it out and let me know what you think 😊
"Whiskey's for drinking; water's for fighting."
Mark Twain
Eeh whiskey is for sipping over.
@@kevinyaucheekin1319 The only thing that I ever drink is water.
@@anthonyappleyard5688 Well then you not a good ole boy for your missing whiskey & rye. Tennessee makes the best sipping whiskey. Are yah a member of the Church of latter day Saints or a Methodist?
oil is for war
tissue paper is for world extinction
@@rockydee7499 Post frakking there a much lower need for America to engage in wars for oil. Frakking has resulted in a expansion of economically viable extractable oil reserves postphoning of peak oil to 2045? or later and elimitating the scale & intensity of competition for oil and hence of war. Explain tissue paper risk in reguard to human extinction risk.
They need to do what they are doing in other parts of Africa, planting various kinds of trees pushing the desert back.
but the taxpayers are worried about their 2 cents
china did this, now the trees are sucking water out of the ground faster than predicted cause they planted so many trees in the green wall of china. to turn this around they need alot of various plants not just tree's
@@wak3oarder True a mono-culture doesn't work. It takes a multi-specie forest.
@@wak3oarder wow you sure don't look like a bot with that grammar
They should not have to do anything. Ethiopia should not be so greedy-they aren’t the only country in Africa around the Nile that is suffering and in desperate need. Their greed is causing much more need in other countries that should NOT be!
For thousands of years the Nile has been viewed as the sacred giver of life to the Egyptian kingdom. To think that it's drying up is nothing short of horrifying!
Fake Egyptians anyways.
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, "The Hour will not come to pass before the River Euphrates dries up to unveil the mountain of gold, for which people will fight. Ninety-nine out of one hundred will die (in the fighting) and every man amongst them will say: 'Perhaps I may be the only one to remain alive."'
@@TheNeroScout you're not too smart, but Nile is not Euphates
@@cry13 It's coming from the same source idiot.
People will just have to learn to move and accept the laws and culture of the new lands that they will have to migrate to.
Truly awesome content on your channel! Please continue to produce these beautiful and informative videos :)
Egypt has also depended upon the yearly Nile floods to replenish the land, however, the Aswan Dam stopped the annual flooding.
It is worth mentioning here that Nile is also 70% of entire Ethiopian water resources. While Egypt covered 100 % clean water and electricity access to its people, only 40% Ethiopians have access to clean water and electricity. While agriculture accounts 14% Egypt's GDP, 80% of Ethiopian GDP depends on agriculture. Therefore, Nile is a lifeline for Ethiopians as much as it is for Egypt. There is no way Ethiopia or any upstream countries support their growing population without utilisation of their Nile.
Stopped lol 😂😂 hopfully Ethiopia drowns by that dam.
Without nile waste there can be famines in Egypt to scale of serious national level.
@@amberlight5830 Not really! Egypt is producing highly water demanding crop like cotton and Orange. They are building new mega cities in the desert and hundreds of golf courses, without even mentioning their inefficient water usage. This is not a sign of water shortage.
@@amberlight5830 What about the famine scale in Ethiopia and the rest of downstream countries?
It is not 60% it is 86% of the water comes from Ethiopia
Because of the map I thought it was the other way around 🤦♀️
But the white Nile maintains flow year round
The blue Nile relies heavily on rain in the Ethiopian highlands
Thanks for your comment!
We're always trying our best and well-researched stories are our utmost priority.
We found different scientific sources, e.g. "A review of hydrology, Sediment and Water Resource Use in the Blue Nile Basin" (World Bank) says 62%.
We double-checked it now and you're right, in the rainy season its around 86%.
@@philosoftfurkitusjunkyard2462 UPPER EGYPT OR UPPER NILE is Sudan + Ethiopia .. lol its been that way since Egypt start. Unlike most rivers the NILE flows north.
africa also sits on a high flat plateau which is why the nile is not navigable (like most rivers) it also why AFRICA will be the only continent that would remain unchanged if all the ice melted on Earth.
Africa dont have to worry about climate change + ocean water levels. Cairo + Accra =will be the only 2 major cities in Africa that will have to evacuate if the ocean rise. ALL THE MAJOR CITIES around the world will be devastated from China to Brazil, to USA to most of Europe.
@@cinnamonstar808
all rivers flow to the sea because that's what they do
No, Africa doesn't have to worry about climate change because it's already super duper as it is
A beautifully filmed and a very informative piece with exceptional narration. I enjoyed this very much.
The five Nile Delta countries were apalled when Egypt adopted a belligerent policy they would go to war if the Nile waters were diverted or if the flow was reduced for any reasons. The Nile source countries simply turned a blind eye to the rampant and massive deforestation of the Nile water catchment highlands. The Nile will thus die of starvation as the catchment highlands are getting parched by the day.
People dont want to see the obvious.
Good point.
Ignore the obvious..nd pay the price... The hyoly lord can't ensure forever Nile
Deforestation makes sense if you want to conserve water.
@@WolfHeathen Forests in hot mountainous areas help stop rainwater evaporating and encourage fog and dew to form.
The scene of Hippos piling up and sleeping on each other was very cute.
You are cuter
@Aaryan Jain 30 peoples seems to care. You too seems to care enough to comment, thank you for caring.
@@RichterBelmont2235 As you should!
@@RichterBelmont2235 Love, especially Self-love is as important as water!
They are in Tanzania
"Meroe was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Kush. These small pyramids were the blueprints for the monumental tombs of the pharaohs." Sorry, but NOPE. The pyramids of Meroe and other Kushite necropolises were built more than 1000 years after the main Egyptian pyramids. A lack of fact checking on basics like this can call the credibility of an entire video into question, be careful.
Most web sites agree with you..... including National geographic. But there is a site claiming the Meroe pyramids were built from 2700 BC to 2300 BC. And the Egyptian pyramids built around 2500 BC. As usual ..... the web sucks.
@@sails3538 we have a detailed historiography of the kings and queens who built the kushite pyramids in meroe and napata, including the dates of their reigns. This is corroborated by Egyptian and other near eastern records. There's no doubt about when the kushite pyramids were erected, and that they were built long after pyramid building in Egypt had ceased.
I almost had a stroke when they casually mentioned this 'fact'.
@@RWMoortgat That shit is all wrong I was there when they got built, it was mammoths and aliens that did it.
They also didn't mention that the dam in Ethiopia is funded by the Chinese which in a geopolitical sense is pretty important.
Very interesting and informative. Thanks for making the video!
Under the sands in western Egypt is one of the largest water aquifers in the world. Also, dams, more cities usage and more farm irrigation is what is drying up the Nile towards it's mouth far more than mild climate changes in the last few decades.
If we suck water from that, will it be sustainable and replenish faster than we use and will it collapse if we drain some of it? You said one of the largest so I assume a big cave. I guess it depends on if the water is holding it up or not.
This is because the entire northern part of the African Continent is being uplifted due to GEOLOGIC forces - NOT CLIMATE CHANGE, NOT POLUTION, NOT WAR, NOT OVERPOPULATION.
Australia has the largest inland "sea" in world under it's soil. During the latest mega drought people were pumping out the water in record amounts and the water tables dropped so much that the natural flora was dying out. These trees survived in our desert because of the high water table. You can't keep taking it away if there is nothing to replenish it. Luckily we got rain this year.
@@slowfudgeballs9517 it's ancient water so if they take it out it's not going to refill. Currently, it's the primary source of water for Libya, but until the upheaval, their water usage was closely watched now it's not.
@@philipclarkson7494 So not a long term solution?
Why was it brought up then! Don't people realise you can't sustain a civilisation on borrowed time?
As our world grows, this issue of rivers crossing over boundaries is going to create big problems. This also is happening between Turkey and Iraq.
same with Ukraine and Crimea .
Water wars is defnitely going to be a thing in the future
The source of the problem is drought. And drought is caused by lack of CO2 in atmosphere. CO2 concentration used to be 1000ppm, it dropped to 280ppm at beginning of 20th century, it came back to 380ppm due to industrial revolution. You know what they say? "CO2 causes global warming". When the globe is not warming anymore, they change to climate change, so they can blame everything on CO2. Stupidity and political correctness is the problem.
@@seanleith5312 Drought, not draught. It is not a beer. Your answer is very bizarre, I am not sure where you heard such things.
@@jamesboulger8705 I don't know what to say to you, I really don't.
Two things
Don't piss up wind and don't be last in line downstream.
Wonderful video. The producer is wonderful. Keep up the good work !!!
I can't believe I didn't find this channel till now. Great content.
Smells like war to me in a not too distant future.
if war does happen Ethiopia wont stand a chance. and this isn't my biased opinion, this is simply what the world military ranking prove
@@ramy131 Your military ranking is not going to help you to win.
@@mohamedadam4754 oh so ethiopia can win against the united states too? you know.... since world military power ranking don't matter. dumb ASS. you ethiopians have become so optimistic you've lost the whole concept of logic and reality.
Egypt will need the Turks to fight because the Egyptian military is little more than a police force.
@@tommyodonovan3883 what? 😂
4:55 This is where Mufasa died.
wheremufasa died is in tanzania a place called olduvai gorge
Olduvai gorge was the place
@P M ofcourse
No one cares
@@Tethloach1lion king is based on kenya not tanzania
They need to plant more trees and a ecosystem alongside of the river
what an incredible video. very well made.
Like all major waterways, the River Nile is a delicate ecosystem that needs to be protected by all countries surrounding it.🌿✌👍🌹
No its not.
@@hunterhunting8864 🤡
Yepp
Sounds like a great way to signal your virtues, without actually having any. That, or you just dont want to accept that this is what happens when 10,000 years go by. Landscapes change, and one day ya gotta migrate elsewhere. Nature doesnt care about your feelings.
Idiotic comment, river is the most resilient ecosystem of all. Period
So no one in Egypt feels like they hate sand, it's coarse and rough and it gets everywhere....
Yes Anakin... They do think that!
They live with it, are used to it.
My man we don't have sand in the city, he said the dessert was inhabitable we don't live by the sand, even in rural or undeveloped areas the sand is so little its considered as dust. Lookup some photos on Google
@@mohamedashraf8966 it’s a Star Wars referents
Well considering sand is a disappearing resource that is used to make lots of things like glass, im pretty sure they don't hate it.
Your back track into history was as the last ice-age ended, when the Sahara was a lush plain.
Well done documentary. Beautifully narrated.
Some of the norther part of Ethiopia are turning into desert. If this is unchecked and reversed, the Blue Nile will dry at it source. Ethiopia is planting 20 billion trees to protect desertification and by that to support life in Sudan and Egypt. The people who are planting 20 billion trees have to use their shares from the Blue Nile.
Well said Ayka Mala, while Ethiopian nurture it's land by planting billions of trees for the good of all, Egyptions just sits enjoy the little time they have until Nile River dries up just like the one before it.
🎯spot on Ayka Mala 🇪🇹❤
Egypt wants Ethiopia to be the bad guy, because they were given unreasonable rights by a colonial power, and want to keep those same rights. Ethiopia is working to progress their nation, egypt is working to stagnate and hold their neighbors back.
True! Climate change affects us all!! Ethiopian are planting millions of trees if not billion every years.
What has egypt done to fight climate at Blue Nile sources??
Al Al : nothing
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Same here, Excellent documentary
Thank you so much!
Welcome aboard!
@@terramater Egypt should not worry. Look how much water China got in 2020. Once rain falls, there is water harvesting and e
Egypt farmers can start practicing it
Thank you, That was the phrase I was searching for
Wow amazingly Narrated thank you 🙏
We definitely have to do this now to preserve for future generations. They should have started this many many years ago but people tend to not look ahead in life.
This is not only a warning for Egypt but also for entire World. ...
@sami khan Global warming idiot.
@@tackytaco8133 why you calling him idiot , stop being rude to people
Rising populations, rising demand for water.
So how much of the world needs Nile water?
Zero if we stand back and watch them ruin it.
Maybe the universe is telling us to move on and go back to normal. If you know what I’m saying you know.
The same thing happened at the end of the old kingdom. When scientists went to drill the core of the fayum the could only find the core to the Middle Kingdom, they realise latter the area completely dried up and there was no water flowing into it, so not much has changed in time
Good informative posting
Very informative. Thank you
Fascinating that a fairly objective documentary like this sparks such a storm of hateful comments.
Because people took other people's land and they trash it
Why not just evaporate all the water? That way nobody can fight over it because there is nothing to fight over
@@rickmarinara5179 Neanderthal
@@travisgustave8405 I mean I'm not wrong. But I'm also not right
Fairly Objective? Lol. Its misinformation is extremely inflamatary designed to spark hatred.
I loved the pictures from 10,000 years ago . It seems that Egypt was so much better then , green and filled with wildlife.
Crazy to think they find tropical plant fossils in very cold areas of earth.
The earth does nothing BUT change.
The reason is the earth has a wobble on its axis, kind of like spinning a top. It is called the axial precession and is a 26,000 year cycle. This has been known since the era of Greek astronomy, and apparently Al Gore is unaware of the science.
The desertification of the Sahara has nothing to do with human civilization. To the extent there is global warming, it is creating stronger monsoons and pushing the dividing line north, shrinking the size of the Sahara desert.
In another 10,000 years, we will have another glacial ice age. You would think people would wonder how large deposits of oil occur up in Alaska, and 35,000 feet underneath the gulf of Mexico and coal is found in the Himalaya Mountains. Change happens.
I love Eygpt a lot.
I wish I could visit it someday...
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8 minutes of pure gold video. I live in Uganda where the source of river Nile is found
Hi J!
We're happy to get such a positive feedback from someone that's close from the whole situation
@@terramater awesome 👌
The visual , the voice and the content make us to learn more about earth
This is first video I'd ever seen on this channel and after watching it I'm a fan of them ❤️
brother it is wrong documentry let you see the world country ranks on ground water. Egyp is one of ground or subsurface water rich country and also have toccein and sea water in near but the target is to harm and dominate the african with helps and as messanger for other. The main source of africa problem is egypian .
Same
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Thanks, Kevin! And thanks for watching 🙌
The Nile is going the way of the Colorado, which is just a trickle as it empties into the Gulf of California. Now, Lake Meade behind the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River is drying up as is Lake Powell upstream behind the Glen Canyon Dam, and Lake Roosevelt behind the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River is starting to follow suit. How long before we learn the lessons here?
When we try to "correct" nature with these desert area dams, we are getting a short-term benefit that has long-term downsides. The huge increase in the surface area vastly increases the rate of water loss due to evaporation. The lakes become resort and recreation areas drawing more population (permanent as well as transient) thereby generating a large draw on the reserves created by the dam in an area where there had been little or no draw before. Meanwhile, open canal systems of irrigation contribute to the evaporative loss at the downstream sites the dams were meant to serve.
S.W. America will be Dead Soon. No Water/Power
You have described very accurately-and terrifyingly-an ecological tragedy developing right before our eyes, and no one will take a single step to stop it until it is too late. Human greed is destroying our fragile little Blue Planet…and the Nile is just one example!
Imho, another issue is overpopulation. Humans are going to breed themselves into serious issues. We breed like rabbits with absolutely no concern for what that’s doing to the planet.
When will Humans realize that we are NOT suited to living in a desert?
The Colorado river water loss due to evaporation in the lakes is around 10% of river flow. The water saved from floodwaters should be something. It would be interesting to cover part of the reservoir to slow down evaporation. Maybe floating solar panel arrays.
The social effects of reservoirs you mention might happen in a big way in Ethiopia around the GERD reservoir.
“Whiskey is for drinking-water is for fighting.” -- Mark Twain
Yet, water is for making whiskey.
@@RogerOnTheRight -- We should have banned Water during prohibition. That'd fix us, make us more temperate.
Ha ha smart. Where did you find this?
No Such drink as Whiskey,
The Real stuff is Whisky
@@helveticacalibri4036 Somewhere on the Intarwebs. Must be true, eh?
This is a similar situation to the Murray Darling river system in the south east of Australia where some states allow too much water to be used for agriculture thus preventing water flow down stream.
The difference is that NSW, Victoria and SA made agreements a hundred years ago. QLD was the one contributor that was not a part of the agreement.
It is the involvement of the Federal Government that has upset the delicate political balance. Each state can see that with Federal support it could increase its take of the water. And the Federal government can see that it can use this as a lever with which to buy votes. Then we have "an environment" that is none of these states but is demanding an ever greater amount of water even at a time of dwindling rainfall. A perfect storm of mismanagement.
But atleast this is an issue between states and within one nation and if worse comes to worse it can be resolved. On the other hand the matter is more complex as each country that benefits from the river Nile is doing what's in the best interest of its people and their pockets and would care less about issues it creates for the neighbouring countries.
how on earth is this similar. ethiopia is building a dam that doesnt consump water and ethiopia get 0% from the nile
@@Anonymous49057 Thoughts like this are incredibly naïve. What actually makes you think violence can't occur within a single nation as a result of something like this? Living in modern countries truly does make people ignorant about the world.
@@JohnnyWad309 He is right though. No war is going to break out in Australia. People will get angry sure, but that is how far it will go. "What actually makes you think violence can't occur within a single nation as a result of something like this?". Well the country is better than the rest.
Jerry Callender
vor 11 Monaten
Egypt has also depended upon the yearly Nile floods to replenish the land, however, the Aswan Dam stopped the annual flooding.
Thanks for this contribution. It would be very Important to explain in this Video what the construction of the Aswan Dam has to do with the actual condition of the NileRiver
vor 11 Monaten
Egypt has also depended upon the yearly Nile floods to replenish the land, however, the Aswan Dam stopped the annual flooding.
GREAT LITTLE VIDEO!
Awesome video ! I enjoy it so much . Thank you for sharing . Have a nice week my friend !
Thank you! You too!
I'm a geologist from Texas A&M Corpus Christi. I used to work in the geophysics department under one of my professors from Egypt. He studies the Nile watershed and works with African governments to optimize its use. During my time working for him, I did a study and wrote a report on the blue Nile. On the border of Sudan and Ethiopia, there is a dam that bottlenecks the river and chokes it big time. The dam isn't in use because of political reasons (its choking the sediment input to the nile delta causing erosion and a retrograding shoreline which will devastate Cairo) ...however, even though the dam isn't in use, the structural bottleneck created by it is hindering the flow of water. Without getting into all the super fine details of how we measured these changes, long story short, the study and report I provided him proved a significant shortage of water to the Nile delta because of a dam at the Sudan Ethiopia border. This video sheds light on a major issue but fails to mention the political struggles we still battle when trying to live cooperatively with our planet and its resources.
Omg
@McRuffnSteady would you mind directing me to your paper, or emailing me a copy? I am interested in your research on the subject.
What is your proposal to solve the issues you mentioed?
Which dam? i just read up on all dams on the Nile and cant seem to find the one you are talking about. They all seem to be in use. The only dam I can find that was built for political reasons is an Egyptian one. Even that one is used for irrigation.
That is awful. That dam shouldn't exist in the first place. Makes me want to believe they built it to extort money from their neighbors. I see a war coming if the situation is going to get worse for Egypt.
Nice voice-over... kudos to whomever did it.
The distribution of Nile river water to every nation where it strech are increasing mainly for croplands , this will reduce the natural volume of water that flows through the Nile. Amazon river was once utilized creating huge water dam that affected the wildlife reproduction especially the salmon fish which salmon species contributes a lot for economy on canning products. So they decided to bring it back to natural flow by destroying the water dams
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The day Ethiopia started to lay the first stone down to build the dam, the story of Nile and Egypt has changed forever.
False. Actually it is helping Egyptians... the dam will be filled during the rainy season and all year long after the water hit the turbine to produce electric, it continues to flow to Sudan and Egypt even during the dry seasons.
@@tarikuahmed8764 but currently it's a problem because the dam is still filling with water
@@ronitreddy9623 no that's not true the dam was filled with rain and no one has enquired Egypt for her dam and Ethiopia was living in poverty despite being source of the Nile 😏🤨
Great narration
Hi sekhar_cp!
Thanks and thanks for watching! :)
Wow beautiful documentary
Very deep history . Please produce more like this . I have already subscribed to your channel 👍
Am Indian..... Always loved Nile from my childhood through stories and news. Feel sad to watch this. Wish to visit Egypt and pyramids oneday
Shut up
@@homiedclown1885 Take your own advice, buttmunch.
Ethiopia will cut water from us
@@homiedclown1885 whats wrong hes just telling he wanted to visit egypt so whats wrong
What about ganga huh.....u guys are doing so bad to it...till now
Beautiful Nile River, blue Nile and white Nile joined in Sudan, that place called Morgan. Really very very beautiful Nile River.
Where can I found the music from 3:20
Ethiopia contributes 80% of the total Nile flow, not 60% and also why don't talk about how Egypt need to fix her water management
She does
Exactly, if Eygpt was to adopt water and agricultural practices of the Netherlands or Israel the water supply would be sufficient for all(Ethiopia included) plus the agricultural output will more than double.
The irrigation techniques in Egypt are getting upgraded but they will need more time to change over the whole country. Ethiopia on the other hand is selfish and doesn't want to wait.
@Forrest Gump or we can move to Ethiopia and Sudan instead :D
@@MahmoudZaki88 Egypt has had time enough to upgrade, but it has chosen not to, so why should another country wait for Egypt to get its act together?
We Moroccan people love Egypt. God bless Egypt.
I love Moraccan , Egypt , Saudia Arabia , Turkey , etc..
Love from India 🇮🇳🥰❤️
God blessed Egypt and human cursed Egypt
You learn something new every day. I never knew the Nile flowed north. I always thought the mediterranian filled it
Same lmao,I was dumb back then
what a dumb person you are then. My god!
Would it be practical to pump water out of the sea then mix it with the brine and then pump the less concentrated brine back into the sea down current from the outtake point?
It would certainly seem to be a relatively low tech and simple thing to do.
The less concentrated brine would sink more slowly than the concentrated and therefore mix better with normal sea water.
The country of Israel has figured all this out. Perhaps you should look into what they are doing as they have been highly successful for many many decades at managing their very small Water Resources to become one of the most prolific fruit and vegetable producers per an acre of land in the world.
@@veeforteeto5976 I think it would be more appropriate for the makers of this video to look into it rather than leaving us with the impression that desalination is yet another example of a technology that seems to promise much but in fact is just another environmental disaster in the making.
Much of Egypt's water problem stems from the building of the Aswan Dam, which destroyed many of the ancient Egyptian artifacts above it and which disrupted the seasonal flooding of the Nile. That flooding had three purposes; the first being the annual deluge of water, the second being the deposition of new nutrient laden soils on the farm land next to the Nile, and the third being the flushing of salts out of the same farmlands. None of these things can take place now, and the increase in the salt leaching out of the arable soil is eventually going to sterilize that land for agriculture.
Since prehistoric time men screws up the land and run away. The Peruvian civilization is a class example the Mayans deforestation made them run away due to drought.
@@pam4840 The Mayans didn't just run away. They are still there. A cataclysmic change in the regional climate, which presented as a decades long period of drought, caused the water tables that the Mayan city structure relied on to dry up. That made large cities untenable, because their cities, like ours, were supported by rural famers who transported the products of their farms to the power centers (cities). When the water dried up, agriculture collapsed, and so did the huge populations in the cities, some by actual starvation, and the rest by moving where it rained.
That 15th -16th century period of drought was not the result of human activity. It was the result of natural processes that we don't understand. 8000 years ago, the Sahara Desert was well watered savannah grasslands. It is thought that a tiny shift in the axial tilt of the Earth's rotation changed the prevailing wind patterns over North Africa so that within a few centuries, and certainly well before the foundation of Egypt as a nation, that region also dried up and became the desolate space we know today.
@@boydgrandy5769 hi, thanks for the details. Another theory is of large scale deforestation that led to low water table and the underground limestone caves getting exposed.
@@boydgrandy5769 no, actually the high dam has a ;ot of advantages to us , You Ethiopians know nothing about Egypt
@@youssefahmed8861 LOL.
You get some temporary benefits, as long as the dam doesn't silt up (which is is, by the way) and as long as it produces electrical power. Downstream though, you will reap the disadvantages more and more each year. Don't take my word for it, though, go do some research.
By the way, I am not an Ethiopian, just a mildly amused, but interested neutral observer.
BREAKING: Good News! Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan could agree on a preliminary deal to solve the conflict around the GERD construction & initial operation. In a nutshell, they agreed that the reservoir should only be filled in stages during the rainy season. This is a major step in order to mitigate the threat of severe droughts in Egypt, while allowing early generation of electricity for Ethiopia.
Great..!!!! So happy for all the countries involved in this crisis that they agreed upon a deal that's beneficial to thier own country people.. helpful to resolve their conflicts in a direction to serve in the interests of their nations...Please keep us updated in case of any future developments.. Thank you!!
The Nile is more important that you current humans can even dream
Good to hear.
no brainer
That is a dream
1:53 what was the title of the music?
Nile is such a beautiful river and most scared river in this world !
Ethiopian landscape is so beautifull.
for tourism only
@@verygood578 you are small because your country is baby, born in the colonial era
@@mamegebre9198 thanks for reminding me to delete my senseless comments .
@@mamegebre9198 wut the heck lol 😆 . Seriously I found a noob comment nd now I'm going to make a meme of your reply now 😜 I already have taken ss of your comment lol 😂.
Well , my country is just beyond of your thinking nd even older than your country . Egypt , india and china were the most oldest countries in this world . Lol 🤣.
Just go nd read some history my noob kiddo
Holsum Redditor 🥰🥰
The three countries must work on environmental protection of the ethiopian highlands and lake tana which is the source of blue Nile. If they keep the environment green and balanced they will have consistent rain to fill the tributaries and all will be happy with more fresh water. However, nothing is being done with regard to environmental conservation and even Lake tana is being swarmed with massive lakeweed.
Ethiopia are planting thousands and thousands of trees... did you not hear about that project?
@@mikescudder4621 yes I know about that this year is the second round. However, there is no coordinated effort by three three nations, supported by scientific research to sustain the basin's ecology. Planting trees isn't enough.
You need mountains to catch the moisture from the air.
Wow!!
A beautiful film
Wow i learned something new. i never heard of the yellow Nile. thank you
Happy to help! 🤗
Me neither. V interesting.
Me too. First time hearing of the Yellow Nile
The video forgot to mention. All the Nile stream countries made an agreement Which doesn't include Ethiopia and the agreement was proposed by the British Government. Ethiopia wasn't Invited and didn't agree on anything besides providing about 80% of the water they are holding about 11%. Egypt on the other hand proposed a deal that if on any circumstances That Egypt needs more water on demand, Ethiopia needs to release water from the reservoir. Who would agree to that? Ethiopia didn't cross any international laws which Egypt is struggling to mention on the conflict. The US on the other hand is backing up Egypt and Threatened to blow up the dam(Trump's exact words) then Russia Came in and provided Ethiopia Advanced radar systems and air defense mechanisms for the dam and this is what pissed of Everyone. Ethiopia is asking which law the country crossed and willing to comply. additionally the dam is fully funded by the people of Ethiopia which is a big Red flag for the Western they don't have control over it. Just watch the countries economy sky rocket.
Hail Ethiopia !!!!!!!!
Yes big part of Egypt is dry region
Yes Egypt canal is drying up
Yes there are many camels in Eypt.
Nile longest rver in Africa.
Tough luck Egypt. You had a good run for literally thousands of years. Let Ethiopia have its moment and maybe they’ll be open to revisiting the topic in a millennia or so.
Awesome documentary, thank you. It seems that global calamities are on the rise everywhere from environmentally, politically, ect.
The world system as a whole is in crisis.......we're in trouble !
Yes totally agree. The number of countries in drought or near drought, i seem to read about more every few weeks. And climate change is just beginning, this is going to get worse.
For about 30 years or more, America's Republicans said Climate Change and its subset, Global Warming, was a "Hoax".
Now we know that was a Lie.
Adding to my reply yesterday. Climate change is happening at the most pessimistic / terrifying level. More and more countries are in drought, a global problem of growing enough food to feed all the people is very close, how many years have we got? Obviously we don't know exactly, but it is clearly not far off. To give an example. The water table is dropping in every country. Yes, every country on Earth has a water table that is falling. Very soon the agricultural land will be drying, it will need extra irrigation, but less fresh water is available. This is happening in every country. WE (humanity) is in trouble. Big Trouble. A very few number of years in the future, harvests will either fall or fail completely in most countries on Earth. There will be a massive shortfall of food. Countries will close their export markets, as India did this year. We are on the cusp of a global catastrophe. Dark times are coming. Many will die. We are in the last days of Rome.
We support Ethiopia from Philippines.
My gosh, the music for this is so fantastic
@Raman SharmaYou assumed that’s all they got based on their comment? 😨 🤢 Acknowledging one aspect of something doesn’t mean they missed every thing else.
@Raman Sharma you are dumb
so are you guys saying he shoild have said that he didnt like the music
@Raman Sharma lol why. are we writing a paper on this video? it is the comment section. ppl say whatever they want. no point in trying to police it.
@Raman Sharma Hi there, so I understand where you are coming from and I do think that videos content is quite frightening and also interesting. I hope that things get better for Egypt and I'm glad I got to peer into another part of the world.
Part of the problem is evaporation from Lake Nasser (Aswan Dam). The lake is a massive 5000km² large and is located in very dry, hot desert. Each year it looses app. 3m of water level just to evaporation, that is 15km³ or 150.000 liters for each Egyptian citizen.
Egypt could reduce evaporation by cutting off parts of the lake to reduce surface and evaporation. In the long run, part of the lake could also be covered with floating solar power modules. The lake is so large, that such floating solar modules could easily supply all of Egypt´s electric power.
Head water of Nile is two countries upstream of Egypt.. they cannot ask Ethiopia 2000 miles away to stop build dams or divert water...
But unfortunate what happens to Egypt in parallel... they must find alternate source quickly
Thanks for the video. Incredible!
The Nile has been rearranging itself ever since it formed. Nothing in nature stays constant. The only constant is change. They've had to move major cities in Egypt because of the Nile many times in the past almost 5000 years.
Still flows north and has never changed. 1 of only 2 Rivers to flow North. The other is the ST.John’s in Florida USA 🇺🇸
It isn't about nature. Egypt and Ethiopia's dams are thwarting nature. Same with China's dams and Hoover Dam in the US.
Could you please update. It has been two years since Video how are things happening in both countries?
As a disabled veteran I live half the year next to Lake Victoria. Plenty of water...it's the disputes happening downstream that is choking off the Nile. China is funding (predatory lending) Ethiopia's dam project. Intense wars are expected over clean water in the time ahead.
So sad. I always feel a mysterious vibe whenever I hear stories of the river..
Same here
The nile is pretty interesting considering its right in the middle of a desert.
In the book of Ezekiel..
God prophesied to dry Nile up. Because of the pride of a gifted Pharaoh.
So that's why you find it mysterious.
God is sometimes incomprehensible.. one of the reasons I love him ☺️❤️
The editor deserves a praise for that drop @1:02. Damn
Just shows that when the oceans where warmer after the global flood during Noah, there was more water on the land.
Australia is experiencing a very wet season (November21). Reason: hot waters from La Nina and hot waters from East Indian Di-pole. These combinded to give a cooler month but more water.
The Sahara was greener because there was more water that evaporated because of the hotter oceans.
Y'all use anything you get to defend your "sky daddy built the world" theory
Holy damn was I not expecting that sick bass drop at 1:05
3:58 is that an ostrich? I never knew ostriches were found in Egypt. But then I remember that ostrich race scene in the Prince of Persia movie.
You can take a ostrich anywhere. To the us, to Egypt, on a plane. They're diverse
I believe it was a drawing of an Ostrich
You know nothing John snow
Egypt is still in Africa lol. There are ostriches in the Middle East too!
There were once wild Ostriches and even grazing animals that roamed the plains of the Sahara, the Sahara not even a few thousand years ago was once a lush, green place, with even what was once one of the worlds biggest lakes that connected in the middle and flooded into the Nile, part of the old River the woman in this video briefly talks about.
These grasslands could support non-desert animals, so the ancient people of those times drew and documented what they saw on those paintings, and as the Sahara slowly succumbed to desertification, all those animals either died or migrated back down south to Central Africa.
Drawings of a forgotten time, must have been amazing to see a green Sahara.
Its been a while since I saw a documentary so good, awesome!
I know where you live.....
@@blobodep6251 ?
@@Tombs_Games I have you dancing in the palm of my hand....
@@blobodep6251 hahaha
@@Tombs_Games Thou shalt cease laughter once the spear of lightning pierces thy loin.....
I'll bet there's some cool souvenirs at the bottom of the Nile.
may Mother nature thrive and remain kind and loving to all!
Why you didn't incorporate the life style of Ethiopians who live suronding nile? it would made your documentary be fair. I found it a bit standing for Egypt.
We're always trying to be be objective and impartial.
But thanks for your comment, we will think about your words if we're doing another story about the river nile.
Obviously as usual it's all about Egypt. The never care about others. Can you all image if Nile river source was from Egypt?
@@terramater when the dam fills, are there going to be villages sunk underwater? are their ethiopian people being displaced?
@@mayamaeru they have already been moved out years ago and established on the surroundings
And you also don't think about anyone else the dam got no gates you don't care if people died from hunger or thirst and you don't even care about taking a bit more time filling the tank so who's the selfish here?
Therewas a Yellow Nile too? Once. Did not know that. Soemting new learnt. Thankyou.
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Mr Alcazar
You post offers interesting history and the possible demise of growing populations. Just as America lakes are drying up and abused.Humans are not being responsible for land and borders. War is not always the answer, but yet sometimes it’s a must. Sadly to say. Getting back Teaching students horticulture might work. But it’s got to change soon with those who use it for travel and stop polluting, teach our youth in our schools. It teaches people to appreciate the gift God gave us… man thinks time cures all wounds. Our precious life source is not going to suffice much longer unless people work together. Instead of take take take. Well that’s my rant. Well some of it.
God be with 🕯🙏🏻🕯
The core cause for all these problems is HUMAN OVERPOPULATION. Nearly every river on the planet has problems: Colorado, Mekong, Ganges, Yellow, on and on and on. Condoms should be free for anyone, .... and free tube-tying for any consenting man or woman over age 20.
I didn’t know that the Yellow Nile had vanished!
@@stevenc8140 A lot has disappeared in northern Africa. Part of it is climate drying up, but at least as big a factor is people. Everywhere people go, environments degrade, animals and plants die, trash & toxicity get spread everywhere. We're a very destructive species.
I will pray for the beautiful Nile and the land around it...
I am surprised the Aswan Dam was not mentioned. Similar argument, different century.
Only the Ethiopian dam is dangerous 😂 and poisonous
every other dam in the world perfectly fine
You are an idiot the answer dam is not harming anyone If it was harmfull it would be harming no one expects eygpt with it isn't since eygpt could remove it at any time
@@MrEntce I must be an idiot; I've never heard of the Answer Dam of Eygpt. Is that near the Aswan Dam in Egypt?
@@claypage1089 Don't ignore the question you are just trying to escape from your stupidity
Plus it was auto correct
The Egyptians could not blame someone else in the case of the Aswan dam...
Beautifully shot, edited, written & produced.
I wonder who is financing this?????
3:58
can anyone help me please find this music