As the human population continues to grow, the demands human beings place on the environment increase. The demands are becoming all the greater because these rapidly increasing numbers of people also wanted to live better lives. More and cleaner water...
And this demand is getting Sevier day by day and not enough water for all, I got this News which really shocked me specially when I remembered the UN report on the 13th of August 2002 ‘If Current patterns of development continue, nearly half of the world’s population will suffer from water shortages within the (next 25 year), the use of fossil fuels, along with greenhouse gas emissions, will grow and the world’s forests will continue to disappear,

And That was my First shocking News and what I had been thinking of all the last days is it really Time for war for a drop of water, isn’t it time that we take it really serious and work on the next generations awareness of such issues and planning for a better Water Recourses Management . And make every one realize the importance of the drop of water he waste and could cause His country to go to war. I think it is really time to take it very seriously to avoid such pressing issue by more awareness about the water issues and the importance of water recourses Management and collaboration between countries to Face this pressing problems ……….

And here is the News :

Ministers from 10 countries that share waters from the Nile River started an emergency meeting in Uganda days ago prompted by increasing fears that tensions over how to share the world's longest river could lead those nations to war, the London Times reports.

Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda are attending the meeting, held under the auspices of the U.N.-backed Nile Basin Initiative.

The conference was called after Tanzania announced it is building a pipeline to extract drinking water for 1 million families in the country's west. Under a 1929 treaty between colonial Britain, which then represented all East African countries, and Egypt, none of the nations on the banks of the Nile could begin a project that would affect the volume of the river's flow without Egypt's express consent.

The Nile is formed by the Blue and White Niles. The White Nile begins from Lake Victoria and is joined by the Blue Nile, which draws water from western Ethiopia, in Sudan's capital city of Khartoum. The combined river flows through northern Sudan and Egypt. Based on the 1929 treaty, Egypt receives 55 billion cubic meters from the 83 billion cubic meters the river generates annually.

The Egyptian government, which has already said it will consider going to war if countries attempt to alter the Nile status, reaffirmed its position yesterday saying it will reject any proposal to decrease its quota of water.

"The talks will have to comply with one permanent feature: not to touch Egypt's historical rights," said Egypt's Irrigation Minister Mahmud Abdel Halim Abu Zeid.

Meanwhile, Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya have been putting increasing pressure on Egypt, saying that water from the Nile could help combat famine in those countries.

"It is simply not fair to ask eight African countries, badly in need of economic growth, to ignore such a natural resource on its doorstep," said one East African diplomat (Jonathan Clayton, London Times, March 9).

According to BBC Online, 160 million people in the region depend on the Nile to survive, especially Egyptians, since the country has no other significant source of water. (Almost 80 million on them are Egyptians) but to Egypt the river is a matter of life and death, as the country has almost no other source of water.


"Right now all the ... countries are on the table negotiating for a new agreement, for an arrangement on how everybody, all the countries, could benefit from the Nile water resources," said executive director of the Nile Basin Initiative secretariat, Meraji Msuya (Martin Plaut, BBC Online, March 7).

The meeting in Entebbe, Uganda, will continue throughout this week (Henry Wasswa, Associated Press, March 8).
The talks - held under the auspices of the Nile Basin Initiative - come amid growing regional tensions over the world's longest river.
A 1929 treaty said no work would be done on the river that would reduce the volume of water reaching Egypt.
But the 1929 treaty - signed between Britain and Egypt - is now being questioned.
Tanzania is building a pipeline to extract drinking water.
Kenya is calling for a revision of the treaty, and Ethiopia is planning to use the water for irrigation.

guyes please i need to know from you how we could solve this sever danger coming to our area in a youth prespective ?
http://www.nilebasin.org/
http://www.unwire.org/UNWire/20040309/449_13826.asp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3541617.stm