The Blue Nile and White Nile meet near Khartoum, Sudan, and travel north to Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea. The Blue Nile descends from Ethiopia’s L. Tana and contributes 85% of the volume of the Nile. The source of the White Nile is Lake Victoria
A Nextgen Blog by June Noyes, DePaul University. This is the latest post to our NWNL NEXTGEN BLOG series. Since 2007, NWNL has supported watershed education with college internships and blogging opportunities. Our NWNL NEXTGEN BLOG series posts only student essays; sponsors a forum for its student contributors; and invites student proposals to write on watershed values, threats and solutions. June Noyes is an…
Continue reading ➞ Big Fight for Clean Water in Chicago’s Little Village
A NextGen Blog by Anna Canny, Cornell University. All Photos © Alison M. Jones. This is the latest post to our NWNL NEXTGEN BLOG series. Since 2007, NWNL has supported watershed education with college internships and blogging opportunities. Our NWNL NEXTGEN BLOG series posts only student essays; sponsors a forum for its student contributors; and invites student proposals to write on watershed values, threats…
Continue reading ➞ Lifeblood and Sovereignty: Conflict on the Nile over Ethiopia’s New Dam
By Rupert WatsonPhotos © Alison M Jones Born in England, Rupert Watson has lived in Kenya for over 40 years as a lawyer, mediator, naturalist and writer. Mediation has taken him to many different parts of Africa. NWNL first met Rupert as the lawyer helpful in establishing the Mara Conservancy Bylaws in 2000. Rupert takes…
By Rupert WatsonPhotos © Alison M Jones Born in England, Rupert Watson has lived in Kenya for over 40 years as a lawyer, mediator, naturalist and writer. Mediation has taken him to many different parts of Africa. NWNL first met Rupert as the lawyer helpful in establishing the Mara Conservancy Bylaws in 2000. Rupert takes…
By Joannah Otis for No Water No Life (NWNL) This is the 9th and final blog in the NWNL series on the Nile River in Egypt by NWNL Researcher Joannah Otis, a sophomore at Georgetown University. This essay addresses the human uses of the Nile River. [NWNL expeditions have covered the Upper Nile, but due…
