How the Nile Can Provide Life and Divide Nations | Part I
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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.
The idea to tilt the map by 90 degrees is something I saw on the episode of "Mit offenen Karten - Ägypten ohne Nil?". I recommend it to any german or french speakers!
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This is the most underated channel I have ever seen
So true
I was just thinking the same thing. Such good content..... deserves some recognition.
Very true
Floo so very true!
Pritam Pradip Modak he’s have 10 million subs and he’d still be underrated
This man got better production skills then vox
Ikr lol
Except he’s saying wriver instead of river
check atlas pro
hagop avagimov English might not be his 1st language or might have a speech impediment, but he’s doing his best. No one is perfect
i wouldn't say better production. this channel is amazing, but the comparison is unnecessary and unjust since vox is a corporate media channel, while neo is a creator. why do you people always have the urge to compare
This is fantastic video thank you so much all the way from Ethiopian🇪🇹♥️♥️♥️
Everyone in Egypt they must know that Nile It’s belong for Ethiopia And they have right to use it🇪🇹💪
The Nile does not only belong to Ethiopia.
If the Nile staring from Sudan why Egypt barking and barking around The world about Ethiopian dam stay away from our country this Nile is 85% for Ethiopian
@@samiaaa9359 Where do you get this percentage from? Geographically it's more around 20% of the Nile that belongs to Ethiopia. Most of it is on Sudanese soil. And it shouldn't be about possession but about need. Egypt needs it more than anyone. You don't like to share and call yourself a Christian nation. Disgusting.
@@Selbstdenkender bruh they r z ones who dont wanna share with us. We suffered a lot befire for not using z water.
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Nice video just one correction. The Nile in Ethiopia is reffered to as the black nile because it is mixed with fertile soil and minerals when it meets at the border with the white nile that's the starting point of the blue nile. The minerals that flow from Ethiopia through the black nile is what makes the soil in Egypt fertile and good for irrigation.
ooh! that makes sense now. Ethiopia is a volcanic land mass.
Blue Nile not black. There's blue and white only.
@@Vhlathanosh please educate yourself more. Even the name Nile is colonizers name we don't use it we call it Abbay.
@@madinakader1399 You ought to educate yourself more, because your lack of knowledge is irritating. First of all, there is no „Black Nile“, stop spreading lies. The main tributaries are the Blue and White Nile, and there‘s no mention of a so called Black Nile. Stop spreading misinformation. Also, even the Egyptians call it en-Nīl, so stop saying it‘s called „Abbay“. I have never even heard it being called Abbay. Again, stop spreading lies and educate yourself by reading a book
@@larochejaquelein3680 @Madina the Nile is indeed called Abbay by the Ethiopians, it was called Aur (Black) by Ancient Egyptians, the conquering Greeks brought the term Nile (Nahal) meaning River... so in some sense, we now call the Nile: The River River if you translate all the foreign into English.
Most likely the Greeks originally joined the terms Aur Nahal (meaning Black River), and over time due to the power of 'laziness' and being the dominating ethnicity and because it was the only river in sight, simply referred to it as the Nahal.
98% of population lives in 3% of available area. That's a "wow" stat
Yeah like imagine 98 million people living in about 40,000 km² only, I live in a less populated area in Egypt so it's not crowded at all, but I once went to downtown Cairo and you can't imagine the traffic and the enormous amount of people that are stuck together.
WOW; INDEED!!!
I live in cairo it's not crowded but in events its really crowded
This is not uncommon in the world.
I appreciate what you just showed us. Love from Ethiopia🇪🇹
Great video, a topic that no one thinks about! Looking forward to part 2 :)
Thank you, I watched this with my two sons as part of their geography as we home school due to Covid 19. It was really informative. What helps them learn, is enough visuals to help them to take in the information provided by the voiceover.
Lies again? Vigrx Plus
Thank you so much. You are a storehouse of important, inclusive information!
It's time for Ethiopia to use the Nile + congratulation for this useful project and God bless Ethiopia and I will visit you soon
where are u fro
You are right
@@damnitsme8511 Does his where about matters ?
Thank you for the video. The blue nile contribute 86.5% of water which all comes from Ethiopia.
Thank you brother. I am a SriLankan, It was helpful to my education works.
I think Egypt is worrying more because of loosing tons of soils which comes through the river not only the water , cause technically it'll a little bit less than it was till they finish filling the Dam
ma nigga
Water is national security
What you mentioned is history
Since Aswan dam started storing silt (soil) started precipitating in the lake
(Egypt lost the natural fertilizer and had to use industrial one)
They don't want to see developed Ethiopia in geo politics, too, because they stand with Egypt when Ethiopia has equal rights as Egypt.
@@kidistalemu6065 Good thing Ethiopia stood for itself. Should find a to stop soil erosion too for the benefit of its people.
As well as the Blue Nile, most of the waters of the White Nile also originate in south-western Ethiopian highlands & the waters flow to the White Nile via a major tributary named 'Baro' [in Ethiopia] & 'Sobat' in South Sudan. Most of the waters of the White Nile that originate in Lake Victoria do not actually reach Khartoum (Sudan, where the two main branches of the Nile meet) & Egypt but are dispersed in the massive 'Sud' marshes located in South Sudan. In total, Ethiopia contributes about 85-90% of the total waters of the Nile that reach Khartoum & Egypt.
I was a bit surprised when the figure mentioned was 60% and can rise to 80% in the rainy season. I do not remember which source it was, but the figure 86%. Also, attributing a 20% increment due to rain is madness. Sobat and other tributaries to the White Nile originating in Ethiopia join the white nile downstream to the Sudd Wetlands where substantial evaporation takes place.
@@lukak3 - yes. Thanks. Also, the vast Sudd swamps in South Sudan contribute to the rains that fall on the Ethiopian highlands & fed all the rivers that are the major tributaries of the Nile river. In a sense, the Sudd Swamps - along the Congo Rain forests & the Gulf of Guinea [Atlantic Ocean] - is the source of moisture & clouds that fall as summer rains on the Ethiopian highlands - the same rains that also feed all those Nile tributaries as well as giving moisture to the small farms on the Ethiopian highlands which are 100% rain-fed [do not use irrigation]. So, logic suggests that attempting to dry the Sudd Swamps as a series of Egyptian & Sudanese regimes have tried could result in reduced amount of rains on the Ethiopian highlands. And, that would have worse consequences for Egypt & Sudan as well as for Ethiopia. Less amount of rains on the Ethiopian highlands due to the drying-up f the Sudd swamps means less water would flow into the tributaries that feed the Nile. Less rains on the Ethiopian highlands could also push more Ethiopian farmers to use irrigation instead of just relying on the rains - which means that even less water would flow to the Nile via the tributaries. Hence, it is better to leave nature alone, reduce human interference or dam building madness rationalised on the whims of nationalistic politicians & engineers...
wtf did you even just write?
We Moroccans and I have friends in Algeria, all support our Ethiopian brothers. It's your right
The best explanation of the Nile, the history, and countries dependent on its source
This is what we r watching stay home due to corona virus
For google classroom😭
Ye
I’m still here
@@gerardomeneses353 lol, same
Yh that is tru
This is really well written and has great visuals, top quality.
Best production skills & perfect reporting ever than those top world news .
Great video, well-researched, Overall a great channel, love from Egypt!
Rwanda and Uganda plans to build a huge dam over the White Nile river. And also the big and the number one dam in Africa - Ethiopian Hydroelectric dam is also almost finished .
The time has come to Africa.
Africa rise ✊
Right
Finally found yt channel that's sooo relateable with my study 😊 I learn water resources management in Remote Sensing for Hidrology and water resources, thanks and keep making videos👍
Watch top 10 longest river
❤ I love learning about these things….thanks for making this video 😊
Correction: The blue Nile is 85% and during the rainy season in Ethiopia up to 92% contributor to the Nile!
CORRECT ....WE THANK YOU FOR TELLING THE TRUTH.
All originate from Tanzania ,if we cut off all countries ,they will suffer a lot !!!!!
100% original from Tanzania lake nyanza (lake Victoria )!!!
@@noelkapesa1858 why not give lake victoria a native name
Noel Kapesa 😂😂😂
Hi, excellent video. Just a small correction : silt is a grain size ike sand or gravel, but smaller than sand and larger than clay. Muddy waters like the blue nile you mentioned carry these sediments in suspensions, which is often deposited during flood events. The sedimente, and therefore the silt, is made up of minerals and not the other way around like you said. These minerals can be decomposed by plants and pedogenetic processes, releasing nutrients.
You have that backwards. Silt is smaller than clay and larger than sand.
You guys really need to post more often! The content is so good! A video a week will be ideal. Please consider this. Thank you.
Thank you so much. That is the ultimate goal just at the moment it is not possible since making these videos takes a long time and the channel isn't profitable enough yet to allow me to commit to it full time.
@@neoexplains Thank for the video, please I need such an amazing, video editing skills
@@neoexplains you should consider making patroen.
WOW, now i’m thankful for youtube’s recommendations taking me here! +1 subscriber now!
Bilu nil is may blad plus ejiypt forgat🇪🇹🇪🇷👌👌👌👌👌👌👌🇪🇬👎👎👎👎👎👎
Great to listen your voice with knowledge
This kind clips it’s good to watch. While you stay inside. Due to the coronavirus!
Same here!
still inside...
@@hyenaeater3741 hhh COVID-19 it looks like. Is here to stay be save y’all!
@@maqoslemaquuste9089 BAHAHAHAH I live in new Zealand
The quality of these videos is simply outstanding!
It is important to note that Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda are not heavily dependent on Lake Victoria (they need to change that name to the East African Lake) for water consumption. It`s only the communities that live around the lake that are dependent on it for water, but I wouldn`t say heavily dependent. It`s more of a source of fish than water. There are plenty of water sources in these 3 countries but the infrastructure to get this water to the masses is what is lacking. Most of the countries you mentioned there apart from Egypt and Ethiopia, are in what is known as The Great Lakes region.
8 countries sign an agreement for equal share of the Nile river except Egypt and Sudan but non of the 8 countries are trying to use their water source b/c of the pressure they are facing from Egyp0t. I think GERD will be an eye opener for the rest of this countries
East African Lake is a horrible name. Worse than Lake Victoria.
Africans already have a name for it. In Uganda it's called Nnalubaale.
Pronounced: Nalu-ball
@@user-my5bg5nm2w no we signed a treaty in 2015 but ethiopia broke it
It will be good to rename it Swahili Lake
Wow ! Great job explanations...amazing video
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Wow that was a fantastic intro. You have some production skills my friend.
You need more subs
I’m so glad that I found your channel
Excellent work neo. I'm really looking forward to part 2 arriving. :-)
Thank you!
love your vid dude
Thanks! :)
neo repent of your sins and follow Jesus Christ Almighty
@@allglorytomylordandgodjesu5807 stfu troll
፤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.
You are right
Greeting from France
True! !!!
AMEN
God is great ❤️🙏
That comes my head...so the next question is where is the tree river and the garden of eden??
the funny part is the beggar is acting as the owner, Egypt have to pay for that water.
If war broke in these two countries I don't think there no men in Egypt to fight ethiopia
@Moe Baker no worries ethiopians can as well invite the world to dump nuclear waste in the river.....don't start a war you cannot win
@Moe Baker
go ahead, we call that suicide.
f16 vs you drink the last drop of ??? hehe...
@Moe Baker clown , you will see what will happen just try
@Moe Baker and Ethiopia blocks the nile then what
Very informative video thank you for sharing
Awesome video! 👍🏻 Just visited Aswan and both damn locations and this video shares the story very well
Blue Nile (Abay) covers more than 85% of Nile annual flow not 60%.
This is a fantastic video, love from Egypt!
Thank you so much, I learn more about white Nile and blue Nile I really appreciate you
Awesome job mate...👍
Great neo video production! High quality!
Parabéns do Brasil
Obrigado!
1:13 either I failed my geography lessons in the 90s or something has changed but Lake Victoria is NOT in Central Africa but East Africa.
Ur right it is in east africa
Well if we look at it as: North-Middle-South, then it is Central Africa, but if we look at it as: West-Middle-East, then its East Africa.
And its true name is not Lake V.
My qn is,white n blue which one is more longer than?
Lake Swahili
Great work ,awesome content
Thank you video brilliant compliment
you are doing great work ! cheers mate
love from India
Thanks!
I Have got one mistake The Blue Nile (Abbay ) Contribute more than 85% of water In the Rainy Season June , July ,August
Very informative video and also fantastic. Love from Bangladesh.
Thank you for the adequate explanation. It is better to have understanding between the countries of the river and taking into account the interest of the other
Nile start from Ethiopia and Ethiopia never use the water all life
Egypt want to control the whole Nile Valley. Maybe if they need water they should open their dam.
@@Okrollins1 Ethiopia,also if they need sea port they should open their own port, not
trying to own other country's port.
@kintu david no Google and see its from Ethiopia
@@peterdavid9636 how to open from wher .can u explain
@@peterdavid9636 We r talking abt using water natural water resource which starts from the northern part of Ethiopia BLUE NILE , we r talking abt building dam not the port there is a difference!
Ethiopia is not poor. It has alot of resources one of them being the Nile. They need to start charging fees for the use of Nile water by Egyptians. No more free lunch.
Very Nice And Easy to Understand Explaination .
Thnk u for teaching something about Nile
Love from EGYPT
Thanks so much!
ThirdeyeStrike Egypt is in Africa
@476 Anno Domini but inhabited with middle eastern start aren’t africans
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Ethiopia must control the Blue Nile waters and set terms for water use in Egyptian brothers and sisters. It was infact very wrong for Egypt to unilaterally built the Aswan high dam and flood, obliterate and destroy the Nubian people's way of life. The Egyptian government should have discussed the Nile river water use by the rest of the 9 Nile basin countries. The bottom line now is that Egypt needs to implement drip irrigation, explore the use of groundwater, built desalination plants and cut down on their discharge of municipal and industrial waste into river Nile. The key thing that they should focus on is to work with upstream river Nile countries to plant trees to increase forest cover and reduce deposition of silt into lake Tana, the source of Blue Nile. Thank you.
The nubians we resettled in better, bigger homes
An eye for an eye? Tf?🤡
First, Egypt does not need to take approvals from other countries to build the High Dam, because its construction will not affect any country, because Egypt is the last country through which the Nile passes, in addition to that the Nubians were moved to larger and better homes than the old ones.
@@thesunnyleopard.193 that nile should be diverted and use for irrigation by Ethiopians
@@CatherineNjue-iy5nj The Nile is not owned by Ethiopia alone, as it passes through many countries, all of which share it
Valuable information ℹ️. 😊 Thanks
Many thanks from Kentucky
2020 for change week up my beautiful people you need Light 💡 Nile is your natural resources 💚💛❤️
love from Brazil
Informative!!!
Hey Neo could you make a video on the Libyan Great Man Made River, the largest water irrigation system in the world?
Sudan is the biggest winner in this water crisis 🇸🇩❤️💪🏾, Allah protect us from every evil
Allah created water for all. Muslims should show good examples like justice, compassion and tenderness like the prophet. Evil are those who are ignorant and zalim towards another human beings. This include so called Muslims.
May Allah help Egypt too. BIG LOVE TO YOU AND SUDAN BROTHER.
@@73oxen The Egyptians didn't care when they flooded ancient heritage and destroyed the nubians homeland where thousands of years of history is gone. They are Muslim btw. So stop with the moral high ground and speak about Egypt first.
@@darkzi1431 brother, high moral is required of by any muslim. Quranic Muslim standards are not defined or represented by the ones who inherited the deen through surname or ethnicity. It is through self soul searching with sincere intentions in seeking our purpose. Of course there are hypocrites and ignorant muslims amongst us doesn't mean they represent Islam. Evidently actions of leaders of "Islamic" countries do not hold parallels to the sacricity of the deen. The deen is not defined by race, nationality, the length of the beard and robes or the amount of brick and mortar mosques but by moral standing and our continuous understanding of the endless realm of knowledge in the creation of the Almigthy. Evil and tyranny in the Islamic world is the biggest syaitan. Allah guides and misguides under his infinite wisdom. My thread is to encourage Muslims to embrace each other and not be too quick in conveniently judge others. That is imperative basic.
Allah is a devil
Nice presentation but it is biased in that it tries to show how important the Nile water is to Egypt which took much of the 10 minutes of the video ignoring the great importance of the water to Ethiopia and Sudan whose people are suffering from poverty.
Sudan will be negatively affected too
@@zeyadashraf6396 Sorry to hear such baseless comments .
Egypt doesn't want GERD that produces electricity because is affects its water flow. Ethiopia has started producing electricity . Nothing has happened to Egypt . The hidden issue is that it creats a good opportunity for Sudan to use GERD as a reservoir to expand its agricultural development that really affects the flow to Egypt . This is the hidden agenda that Egypt opposes the construction of GERD for. What a paradox ? Wake up Sudan. This is a free precious gift that one shouldn't miss at all. 🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹✌️
Keep it up well done brother
Love this channel, such good content, and the narration is on point
Interesting, at 4:30 the horizontal Africa continent does look like mirror of Australia continent.
No, it does not.
I wish you would've talked about how the construction of dams on the Nile affects soil fertility that is dependent on silt deposited after every flood and how dams interrupt this process. Also, the challenges faces where silt builds up behind dams causing issues with power generation and other issues.
Soil is not a shared resource .. only water is ... so thats not in the equation
@@rediettadesse2828 yes, soil that is local isn't shared but I'm talking about the rejuvenation of fertility through seasonal flood waters which occurs upstream and in some cases different countries, such as the Nile.
Jacque Cousteau talked about this exact issue in his documentaries that are decades old. I was surprised there wasn’t any of that discussed in this video either.
Thanks...! Informative...
Great Video! I would appreciate it, if you link your sources the next time.
Keep up the good work!
Coffee and The Nile are The brand of Ethiopia as Boeing and Coca cola are The Brand of USA
No one can stop us using our river.
And no one can stop all the other countries from using it as well. There’s enough for all. We just need to learn to share and conserve!
85 percent the water came from Ethiopia I think ethiopia needs this water more than Egypt according to data Ethiopia people they have 25 percent electricity and Egypt have 95 percent.
Ya man
Fair share of water is fair than political agitation. Do you know 10% of Ethiopians have only electricity while Egyptian have 100%. BE FAIR.
So Egyptians die from thirst for Ethiopians to have electricity??
Egyptians will not die from thirst stop being dramatic !! Secondly Egypt should invest in alternative ways of getting water and thirdly ethopia is gonna use the Nile river to it's full advantage
@@prosl11 Dramatic?!!
We're one of the most needy countries for water, we sure want you also to benefit from Nile, but with no harm for us, take more time to fill you dam just what we require only !!
Awesome. Well done 👏
Great work bro.
The fact that you rotated the map by 90° is really messing with my brain
I love this channel so much ❤️
Love from Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
Thanks so much!
greatly done video bro
Yup,that's my home country🇸🇩.Thanks for the vid🤝
a channel talks about the Nile divide in my country
More than 90 percent of Egyptian people use clean water and have electricity. They also have man-made dam. Where as Ethiopia literally the source of the Nile use none from Nile. It is because of Egypt more than a century became a obstacle for Ethiopian not to build the dam.
Ethiopia has a right to build a dam on her river and use her natural resources for her nation. Alas!
egypt has relied on the nile for over 7000 years, even before ethiopia was inhabited as a civilization so it to has a right to the water.
Sure you have rights to your own river, but you cannot just put our water security at risk. Build a Dam sure, but don't fill it up at such a fast pace to the point it might affect water flow in Egypt.
@@buzzlightyear1010the ancient Egyptians are not the modern day Egyptians. The ancient Egyptians are in today's sudan, South sudan and Ethiopia. The modern Egyptians are actually invaders from middle east. The whole of Egypt all the way to South sudan and Ethiopia was all kush empire 😊😊
Useful information 👍
0:00 the way the documentary scenes begin is the way the ancient world used to orient itself, towards Africa. To the Egyptians, the Ethiopian Highlands were their "north". And "Upper Egypt" was referenced as "North". True North, was, however, the "sky". Accordingly, words for "North" and "sky" are interchangeable. "Highlands," which goose the sky, are referenced similarly.
I’ve never seen the world map from this angle
Blue nile It originates from Ethiopia but we did not use it any thing but now every thing is change
due you understand why there's conflict
Is there no treaty about this water conflict?
Great video🔥
Great Video!
only 6k views is criminally underrated, guys, keep posting comments and like the video so more people see it!
Trust me, people can tell propaganda from the truth..that is why not many people fell for this outright lie....he got all the facts wrong...for example he doesn't tell us why a colonial treaty which non of the upper riparian nations(the providers) were not party to and does not give a drop of water share is fair? Cos that is all the upper riparians are objecting to, and Egypt is trying to cling on to.....the truth is, Egyptians know too well that there is a win win technical solution but suffer from exaggerated sense of self importance as a country that bases its existence on being a l*ech between the west and middle east, with at most disrespect for black Africans..and this video is just one of their dispatched dogs....
Your wish was fulfilled. Now 800k views.
@@homelesswatcher547 thankfully :D
Umm. Do you do this individually? If yes then I'm so astonished. that's like a Vox quality video.. But accomplished individually! Vox takes a whole team to accomplish this type of a video!
Useful information
keep up your beautiful work it helps thx
How
"Some says the Nile used to run from east to west" - Spaceman The Killers
Millions of years ago
The Blue Nile tributes 84% of water to Nile. Not 60%
@suraphel GetachewHe wasn't wrong, he said 100 million correctly, the 120 million number was the population forecast for 2030.
Amazing content, never stop even if the views are low itll pick up
Excellent video indeed.
1:13 The Nile rises in East Africa not Central Africa
But he rotated the map by 90° /s
I wondered if there was a new source of Nile
@@amokendege5399 2. lake tana in ethiopia, east africa and lake victoria in central africa.
zombieat Corection: Ethiopia is in the Horn, and Lake Victoria is in East Africa
@@wandamaximoff7495 ok, i agree. thanks
From the title, I thought this video is about Nile and the nine basins countries but instead it is all about Egypt. And the next video is about the Grand Renaissance Ethiopian Dam (GRED) and how it is the source of conflict. They (Ethiopians) built with their own money, on their own water, in their own country but some how only Egypt sees a problem with that. We Africans stand with Ethiopia!
This was great
Love your content,....I subscribe