Tanzania risks Egyptian ire over Nile waters

[dArKeR]

Dar es Salaam - Tanzania appeared on a collision course with Egypt on Monday over the waters feeding the Nile, declaring it would use Lake Victoria to supply parched communities.

The announcement of the 170km water pipeline project by Tanzania's water minister threatens to deepen a long-running dispute with Egypt, which says a colonial-era pact allows it to veto use of the Nile headwaters.

Tanzanian water minister Edward Lowasa said the pipeline would supply the towns of Kahama and Shinyanga and 24 villages in the country's arid north-west.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=68&art_id=qw1076332502475B235&set_id=1

[Journeyman]

1. And the water wars draw nearer. . .

n/t

[Voice_of_Europe]

2. Ressource Wars...

First of which we have seen in GULF WAR I...

I wonder how long it takes for the Sheiks to notice that they'd just need to plaster the desert with Solar Panel, Fresh Water Refineries and plantations...

They live in the promised land and don't even know... ^_^...

[amazona]

3. a related thread

..was put in the environmental forum, with the Kenya response.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=115&topic_id=4760

I really don't see how Egypt can reasonably expect these people just to lay down and die. They have nothing to lose by taking the water which is, after all, on their land. Whereas Egypt or any other invading force has a lot to lose, because they will just be providing new recruits for the Al Qaeda minority in the region and putting their soldiers in way of constant guerilla attacks.

[Voice_of_Europe]

4. agree

Since the Nile flows from Suoth to North... and not from the Mediterrean down...

Would you not drink from your creek and watch all the water go by because somebody further downsream told you so..?
I would drink and then piss in!