How the Nile Can Provide Life and Divide Nations | Part II
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Video Description:
In this 2-part episode we want to take a look at the Nile River in Africa. The river plays a central role for all nations trough which it flows and it forces them to cooperate. At the same time, the sharing of water can also lead to tensions. We want to focus on these two aspects by looking at two construction projects along the Nile. For one, the Aswan High Dam, one of the first and to date the largest Dam along the Nile, and the Grand Ethiopian Rennaisance Dam, which is still under construction but is already sparking a dispute.
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Absolutely underrated channel! Great work!
For sure
Agreed,.. what an underated channel 😔
@Kj_mast_er
eGyPt CeNtRiC tRaSh
You're not a bright one eh?
Absolutely wonderful channel!
you shit head egyptian.
this video is highly egypt centric.
anyways i got something to tell you.
l live arround laka tane in a city called bahir dar. LAKE TANA is the source of the blue nile (85% of your aggricultural and fresh water source).
righ now a large part of the lake is covered by a new foreign weed called in amharic" emboch",this weed takes up much water and is multplying rapidly.
experts say this weed could dry up the lake if not removed or treated very soon.but the regional govement and the federal gov gave little or no attension to this dangerouse situation.many activists tried to alarm the goverment but no real reponse given.
so if your goverment and people care about the nile and fear of water scaricity, you should consider also work together with ethiopians to perserve the nile by removing this weed and alsoby engaging plantation project along the nile.
the weed is also covering money tributary rivers and lakes.
if you wondar about the weed,
i will send you images.
This is well researched and presented. Excellent work, thank you.
Thank you!
Bombing Aswan and Egypt is so simple.
@@hhdd674 bombing the Ethiopian dam is more simple. Egypt has the ninth strongest military
@@memoxd722 an accurate missile doesn’t care if your military is 9th best
@@neoexplains you deserve so many more subscribers
On a side note, the lucrative Egyptian cotton industry could play a part in this issue, cotton requires a large amount of water for production.
egypt dose not plant cotton any more
Same thing is happening in Southern CA, there water comes from Colorado river.
@@mostafaelmadany8046 🤔🤔 In market year (MY) 2022/23, cotton area harvested is forecast to increase 14 percent to 97,000 hectares (ha), from 85,000 ha in MY 2021/22. Post estimates MY 2022/23 production at 320,000 bales compared to 280,000 bales in MY 2021/22. Public spinners are still under renovation, limiting domestic use. However, Egypt plans to set up the world’s largest spinning and weaving factory in Mahalla al-Kubra, at a cost of about EGP 900 million ($57 million). 10s Google search will tell you the truth. question is whether you want to face the truth.
I’m from South Sudan and I can tell u know the history section very well 👏🏾
That 66/22 that you mentioned relates to the run off water that naturally flows into the territory of Sudan and then Egypt. So essentially that 1959 agreement between Sudan and Egypt was to divvy up the leftover between the two nations. That’s why Ethiopia and other Nile basin countries were note part of that agreement.
Other countries weren't part of the agreement because it was a colonial agreement between british colonies
And if you want to look at how badly the British were at dividing shit, look at the borders of Iraq and Kuwait
That is not true
What a wonderful pair of documentaries. Such a fair explanation of such a crucial subject. I shall watch these again to learn better. Thank you.
This is a great video explaining the problem in the region, thanks for such amazing content!
What an explanation! Even by average brainer like me can understand the issue,.. thank you team for the great educational video
That's a pretty humble thing to say haha
Great job, thanks for presenting this issue in this video!
65% of Ethiopians doesn't use electricity, which means they deforest plants to cook food, to get light, which also lead desiccation in the area. so finishing the Ethiopian renaissance Dam quickly as much as possible is a solution to prevent Egypt from water scarcity.
I’m an Egyptian I’m not ok with no water
Nile river flows from one end to another end..... It's not very hard to build those kind of dams based on the force of the water that flows from top of the continent to the another end point where those back waters of the river is formed into so many lakes in different countries......
Your editing skills and presentation is exceptional.
By far the best ever channel I have ever seen , greatest work brother
Nile river in African continent is such a gift to those people who live around that river has so much of natural resources which INTURN can be useful for so many good aspects like farming and agriculture......
I've learned so much from your videos! Can't believe it's so underrated :(
New to channel .... I'm binge learning thank you! 🙏🙏⛳🏌️♂️
This channel is absurdly underrated. Subscribed!
TH-cam is obnoxious. I’ve watched every one of your vids but it didn’t put this in my sub box
Thanks for sharing! Make sure you are both subscribed and have hit the notification bell.
You have to click subscribe. TH-cam doesn't subscribe for you just because you watch the videos.
great content n you did an amazing job n am saying this as one of the shareholders in the dam
Really enjoyed it! Great work!
Excellent narration .. Keep going
Your intro alone is awesome! 👍🏼
Nice work..Iam from Ethiopia ,I was looking in to videos regarding Nile river to learn what the river means to Egypt and to understand their point of view and I found it really helpful, you did a good job by presenting what is means to all the country involved.thanks
I'm Egyptian and I love you Ethiopians! Hope this obstacle come to an end!
@@s2Yid bro what's with your username then lol
Its an interesting video but lucks much much detail about Ethiopia and the lives of Ethiopian people.
For the next time you should also talk about how Sudan built 3 dams and didn't affect Egypt that much.
Its Egypt centric video but at least better than other Egypt media,
Excellent well presented documentary
Great work. Thank you.
Excellent videos. Thank you for the effort put into this channel.
Great channel. Thank you.
@neo I like your videos, informative and well presented
Great video, learn a lot today
Informative content..Really loved your presentation.. Love from India..!!
Can you do about the Mekong river too?
The best one yet
Probally the best chanel out there for me!
really nice content ,awesome video
Thank you for a highly sophisticated, unbiased and extremely well researched and presented analysis. Amazing work to say the least.
I’m glad I stumbled upon this‼️ So interesting 🧐
Rate of evaporation in Egypt is higherthan in ethiopia, you should mention it.
Excellent documentaries - very informative and clear
Thank you!
@@neoexplains I've just watched Part 2 and really like it. I'm going to use it as part of a Global Perspectives online lesson with one of my classes
David Meaker please explain Ethiopia’s struggle for developing its resources in an equitable matter and how ethiopia contributes 77 billion cubic meters of water and uses nothing
Another great video
impressive work
Very nice to know . Thanks
Such a great work. Perfect unbiased presentation of the issue. Keep the good work going. Love from Egypt 🇪🇬🇪🇬❤️❤️
Great work.
Nice job with the video
Great content!
Well balanced geopolitics analysis
Nice video.
As an Egyptian I am worried about these consequences but this video is really amazing and I would reccomend it for anyone who needs info on this subject
Informative
Well done neo 👍
good work
watching neo for two minutes.
subscribe.
So Sudan and Egypt want Ethiopia and other upstream countries to produce the water of the river but shouldn't have any share in the river water.
now you know whos funding the war in the upstreams.
no egypt is okay with the dam. They just dissagree on the rate to fill the lake behind the dam. Egypt want ethopia to fill it slowly where ethopia wants to fill it as soon as possible. Why would ethopia dissagree nobody knows why.
@@rezk9324 If Egypt is willing to pay the compensation for the delay, why not? Ethiopia plans to fill it within 4 years Egypt with 15 years minimum. Therefore; if Egypt is willing to pay 11 years worth of production profit, agreement can be reached. You see where I'm going?
@@israelgirma3612 President Al-Sisi emphasised that Egypt made it clear that it wants cooperation and partnership for the Nile River with the Sudanese and Ethiopian brothers.
“Egypt does not intervene in other countries’ affairs or internal issues. We offered to our brothers in Sudan and Ethiopia our cooperation and expertise in agriculture and energy on the condition that Egypt’s water rights not to be touched,” he revealed.
Great work amazing information - any take on Indian Subcontinent and water disputes between south Asian nations
Excellent.
Great video! It is even better than the last one, a sign that you are improving! Keep on the good work! Love from Egypt!
Thanks❤🌹
great!
I swear everything the British touches became a ticking time bomb
Yes, you are absolutely right. I call it "Poison of humanity. "
so like half of the world
You're absolutely right brother....you can see britishers came to India and at the time of leaving they create such a mess called Pakistan, that whole the world suffer from it.
At least it's ticking unlike franch nuclear bombs that until this day children are born with mutations because of it
@Aki ra It was much more complicated than just 'respect', I am afraid. The entire thing is way more complex for just a single TH-cam comment.
Under the following facts, is Egypt's intention to prevent Ethiopia from using water resource located within its boundary is rational?????????????
***Water resource related info:Egypt Vs Ethi*****
1. Ethiopia contribute 85% of Nile river but no control over it whereas Egypt contribute 0% but controls 66% of Nile (As per 1959 or colonial-era agreement). Egyptians call it as "Historical acquired right".
2. Ethiopia has been consuming only 0.3% of Nile as whole whereas Egypt consuming more than 15% of Nile water annually for only irrigation (Bakenaz, 2015).
3. Out of total borderline of Egypt, 56.3% has coastline on Mediterranean and red sea in addition to Nile river &dams lakes (Aljazeera, 2015) whereas Ethiopia is landlocked country.
4. About 200 trillion cubic meter groundwater is found in Egypt at 6m-100m (Abdel et al., 2016) but only 30 million cubic meter found in Ethiopia (Belete et al., 2014).
5. In Ethiopia about 105 million people live in Nile basin whereas in Egypt 89 million people (Aljazeera, 2018).
6. Electricity per capita KW/hr in Egypt is 1,127 but in Ethiopia only 23 (IEA, 2016).
7.About 55.7% of Ethiopian population lacks access to Electricity whereas in Egypt it is 0% i.e 100% of Egypt population have access to electricity (WB, 2017).
8. Egypt was one of top six countries in the world with most favorable Geopolitical position (Abdelhak, 2016).
Facts. This is on top of their dam in Aswan that has double the capacity of the ethopian one.
Sudan is literally in middle of all this 😂
Because sudan is where the white Nile and blue Nile meet to form a new river called Nile river
Haha it's like trying to mediate too brothers fighting 🤣😂
And they, too, aren't taking advantage of it now to solve their water problem.
@@darkzi1431 too ??
@@alaagoni8227 my bad 2*
Presentation style is amazing. What app is used for this presentation?
Very good job! Just found out about your channel. How did you get to register the name Neo?
I just found this channel and I'm loving it, even if the narrator has dyslalia.
Good Analysis. But in my opinion Ground water sources should also be taken into consideration during water resource analysis on the first video. Its one alternative. COOPERATION is the key. Am sure we will come to an agreement.
I would like to have more of such
Ethiopia is free to do what ever they want on their territory! support from Romania
@MsSunhappy really? tell that to USA, RUSSIA and CHINA
Thanks Romania
Finally someones talking about this
Damn good work , you should do some work on south america!
Just Subscribed ❤️, Keep it up
We ethiopians are rising and soon we will make many more dams and irrigation projects on the nile(abay) river
YOUR INTRO SOUND TRACK IS AMAZING, DID YOU MADE IT?
Can you make a video on the dry off of the Tigris and Euprhates rivers because of such projects
Apperently they didnt learn what happened to the Aral sea
That was when all the rivers to the Aral Sea were diverted. The dam would only restrict the flow of water which would reduce water for a while.
Despite being called Aral Sea, it is a lake. The Nile discharges into Mediterranean, an actual sea, the sea level wont change..
@@galadhremmin a lake that had all the makings of a sea. But they propably mean the nile loosing water and lake nasser.
It's a political Dam that need to be BOMBED, the only solution is to sign an agreement for the mutual operation management of the water. That's it anything else is a trial to kill a population and we won't stay silent!!
@@oraletsnorter but thats the thing. The water isint theirs, it is every ones who lives on the banks of the nile.
Quick Tidbit: Many river deltas will be the least impacted by sea level rise thanks to sediment deposit. The Nile delta itself has seen cyclic movement every few hundred years or so for the past thousands of millennia. It used to be kilometers south of its current poaition during the Roman warm period.
Well if you have an empty dam, you can turn off the river to affect things down stream, until it fills up. Once it's filled up though you have to turn the river back on or start flooding your own country in an unintended way. So Egypt will only really be vulnerable during that filling stage as once it's filled it's not much of a useful weapon....
You know that filling this huge reservoirs takes years at full capacity right ?
Try telling Egyptian people they will only be vulnerable for years, then they can start drinking again.
@@TheMops14 Egyptians have Aswan dam and make Nasser with DOUBLE the capacity of the ethopian dam.
@Sabrin A
Who said Egypt doesn't use them in the annual drought season ?!
You can let too much water goes to Egypt and sudan to flood them so it's still a weapon 😂
@@SabrinA-hn7ix which would dry up by then before the GRED filling is finished.
your so underrated
need update video on this project
፤ Genesis ፪፥፲፫ (2_ 13) የሁለተኛውም ወንዝ ስም ግዮን ነው፤ እርሱም የኢትዮጵያን ምድር ሁሉ ይከብባል።
And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
great work
I love your channel great info .. hope no one pronounces these Arabic names like you do tho 😭😭😭😭❤️
its easy you just need to learn to know where the letter come from
weally nice video bwo
He has a lisp
Actually the Ethiopian dam reservoir is a deep gorge and therefore would make evaporation minimal.
and therefore I subscribe
Thankyou you presented well, ETHIOPIAS right to use it.👌👍🏻
To all of you guys saying things along the lines of "The nile belongs to Ethiopia they can do what they want"
While there is some truth to that statment i want to remind you that going by that logic, the nile belongs to every country that it passes through, like how each country sharing a sea can only claim parts of it. Just because the source is in Ethiopia doesn't mean that the nile belongs solely to it.
This isn't anarchy you have to realize you're dealing with people's lives here you can't just do things just because you want to, Egypt already has a water shortage if the dam isn't built and operated responsibly the results would be catastrophic to the people in Egypt. Having the source be in your border doesn't mean you can do as you please with it. You can't go out in your garden and light fires or fireworks even if you wanted to because you're not only putting yourself at risk you're also subjecting your neighbours to that.
Using the "They can do whatever they want because they own it" argument is a bit stupid in my opinion, Egypt has planes, does that mean it can bomb Ethiopia becuase it wants to? No, because there are people living there that would be negatively affected by this.
I'm Egyptian, we more than anyone understand what it's like to live in poverty under abusive dictatorial goverments. I'm not against the dam, i think we need to reach an agreement of how to build and operate it while minimizing the damage it can do to Egypt and Sudan.
The water inside Ethiopia belongs to Ethiopia the same way the oil inside Saudi Arabia or Egypt belongs to them. We do not tell you what to do with your own oil and you should not tell us what to do with our own water inside our own country. Got it? You do whatever you like inside your country, do whatever you like with your oil and we will do the same with our own water inside our own land. End of!
SufficientDaikon, I am Ethiopian but my grandmother is Egyptian, I mostly agree with you but Egypt cannot then claim sixty six percent of the nile's water while giving the rest to Sudan without acknowledging Ethiopia and Tanzania.
@@Phil-zx5yc Did you even read what i said??
@@amirmohammed2932 You're right
@SufficientDaikon Yes I did but it does make any sense, you are telling us what to do with our own resources inside our own country are you having a laugh? Mind your own business!
Why doesn't Egypt try managing it's population. Between 1980 and 2019, the population has increased from 35 million to around 95 million ( at least that's what they say) which appears to be excessive given their lack of resources.
Nile river has a civilization... And that civilization has forgotten by so many people by their migration to different parts of this world in search for their careers, education or living...... It has a history which is never focused or taken to the top where lot of things can be done to the two sides of that river from one end to the another end.......
Well from my understanding of the situation is that Egypt has in fact tried to limit the population by contraception and even the two-child is enough campaign, a good thing to note is that it was not an enforced ruling with consequences such as in china with the one and two-child policy. I reckon the reason for that is that the out lash from the citizens would result in a major reformation of the government which will remove those in charge; this is due to the culture and traditions. But considering the "lack of resources" Egypt is not overpopulated as is right now as places such as Niger and Nigeria. In those places, people don't even know what contraceptives are and even then there is a huge strain on resources such as education, healthcare, and housing. These are not issues found in Egypt. In fact, Egypt is always building more cities such as the view of 2030 which will bring in many new huge facilities, as well as many residential areas. So to conclude, from a geographer's point of view, Egypt does not need to be as wary of its population for now as other countries.
I also want to point out that having a growing population is probably better than having a declining population with a negative natural increase value like Japan. By 2030 most people in Japan are going to be 65 years or older, and right now there are more people around 80 years than there are people from 15-64 (economically active people) which means that there is a high number of old dependants which is a burden on the country, as they do not produce any revenue for the country and instead have to have pensions, care homes, etc. made for them. This also prevents economic growth, as businesses will not have as many customers and there are fewer economically active people working altogether. The reverse is found in Kenya which has a high number of young dependants however having young dependants is almost always better than having old dependants.
That's why anti-natalist countries like China and Singapore are trying to encourage a higher fertility rate as their population is aging and will not have an economic workforce in the future. China at the start had a one-child policy that removed an estimated 200 million births. This kept changing until the three-child policy was introduced so that the population would grow again as most of the population was aging. It is also the same story with Singapore, in fact even more so as Singapore is a pro-natalist country and now encourages having many children.
Hope this helps.
Ahhh yeah just easily limit population growth. That's an easy one....
I was wondering if you could link your sources please :)
I think the Dam in the long run benefits all where it retaining large amount of water upstream, when it eventually full will be release off to downstream.. this help irrigate more lands in the future and provide more sustainable environment overall.
I'm here to assure everyone that there is no way we are waiting 15 years to fill the dam. No self respecting nation would wait. 4 years from now, its all filled up. We already finished the 3rd filling which took us 3 years. What remains is an other 3 stages. Ethiopia 🇪🇹 🇪🇹
Last I checked, Egypt never made a deal with Ethiopia. So what's Egypt's right to tell Ethiopia what they can do with their land?
Lovely Nations and Lovely people
Your work is similar to vox if u know him unfortunately your channel is underated
Hopes for the best
Guys, keep posting comments and like the video so more people see this underrated channel.
I think uganda should also build a big dam on the Nile
Bela T.T wdym sudan didn’t reject this dam and this
This could be a game changer for egypt
The owner remains one regardless! ,Fair distribution and protection to ETHIOPIA
I know there's only so much fresh water, but if they make a salt river near the nile, won't the increased evaporation just make it rain more? I'd say salt lake, but that just leaves a salt bed, a flowing river of salt water should mantain salt leavles.
and how possibly you suggest them to do so ?!
@@adelannapolis4709 there is a number of ways. Many things that make electric can also pump water, even a waterfall, but always less going up than down. The increase in evaporation because of the salt water will lead to more rain and then more fresh water going threw the current rivers, increasing the electrical potential of water used to macanicly pump water. Now water can be pumped faster, or maintained. Charting a course for the water to flow should be the hardest part.
@@alphonsobutlakiv789 Basically what you are suggesting is near impossible?
@@kevino3881 I don't see why imposibul, it's the same condition as the coasts and in land and that generally is a lower elevation
@@alphonsobutlakiv789 Please name me one salt River or Salt lake that is man made
I like Egypt!
We the people of Ethiopia are the only people that are not using our river
And apperantly you don't know how to use it
@@retf8977 how do they not know how to use it? They are about starting to make use of it.
@@m7destroyernl858 intelligence is relative, you may be dumb to someone way above your capability level. Lay off the childish insults, especially without any need to do so. Those are common behaviours of the primitif man.
@@albejaine "primitif man" grammar 100
You have my support from Kenya. We have been taken for a ride for a long time by the non existent agreement