Egypt/Ethiopia: As the Risk of a ‘Water War’ Fades, Is It Too Late to Save the Nile?

Feb 4, 2020 | Peter Schwartzstein, World Politics Review
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Ask the farmers, fishermen or anyone else who depends on the Nile River for their livelihood, and they’ll tell you this isn’t the same Nile valley they once knew. The river’s water is often too dirty to tend vegetable plots or wash clothes, if they can access it at all. At times, it is so choked with sediment or trash, the current struggles to circulate through their irrigation canals. Nor is the weather behaving as it has in the past. The loss of a dependable Nile River comes at a time when rural communities are already up against a debilitating range of problems.