I read recently that the Nile river in Egypt will run dry in 20 years. What can we do to stop this?

Question

Actually I believe it was the source of the Nile-Lake Victoria(?) in Africa.
I mean this is one of the most important rivers on earth, it basically created one of the many subsequent ancient civilization(s)! The article I read did not offer any way to help avoid this disaster-does anyone know about this and how to help?

Answer 1

Most of the water resources goes towards farming. Already the Colorado River in the US and the Yellow River in China no longer make it to the sea. (this is what they mean when they say the Nile will run dry... we divert more and more water, taking it away from ecosystems downstream.)

Conservation helps, but better farming irrigation techniques and eating less meat is crucial as the world population continues to grow exponentially. 70% of all fresh water goes to farming and the majority of the produce goes to feed livestock! The UN recently did a report on water resources and they estimated that for every 1 lb of beef it takes 7 lbs. of feed grain, which takes 7,000 lbs. of water to grow. The water that goes to make the corn could used to feed more people with 7 lbs of vegetables and beans than 1 lb of steak. This is not to say that we all must become vegans, but if we all ate one less meal with meat a week it would make a tremendous difference! "Pass up one hamburger, and you'll save as much water as you save by taking 40 showers with a low-flow nozzle."

Here's an article that has some good statistics about the Nile:
http://www.earth-policy.org/Books/Eco/EEch2_ss6.htm

It says " Another river that is leading to sleepless nights is the Nile, because its waters must be allocated not among provinces, as in China, but among countries. Ten countries share the Nile River basin, but just three—Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia—dominate. Eighty-five percent of the Nile's flow originates in Ethiopia, but the lion's share is used by Egypt. Most of the rest is used in Sudan. Once the claims of these two countries are satisfied, little water is left when it enters the Mediterranean"

Answer 2

There is an interesting article on this at http://www.american.edu/ted/victoria.htm. It appears as if it would take vast reforestation efforts. The drying of the Lake may be due to the dry climate of the surrounding areas coupled with demands of the human population surrounding the lake. I think though, a deeper concern than the history of the Nile may be the struggling people that surround the lake and the river and finding ways for them to survive. Hopefully reforestation efforts could be beneficial to the people and the bodies of water in the long run.

Answer 3

The inundation of the Nile river started each and every 12 months with the helical emerging of the superstar Sothis that we all know as Sirius or the puppy Star. This happens within the first few days of July. The inundation started within the mountains of Uganda and Ethiopia and reached Egypt at the moment each and every 12 months. This used to be spotted through the old Egyptians who assumed that the inundation used to be a present from the gods. However this present, despite the fact that it introduced with it lifestyles within the style of water to irrigate the land it additionally very probably introduced with it dying and destruction regardless that flooding. As some way of measuring simply how extreme the flooding of the flat lands could be a sequence of Nilometers that measured the emerging of the waters have been built at strategic facets alongside the Nile starting on the Fist Cataract close Aswan. There continues to be an instance to be discovered at Philae Temple and in Cairo despite the fact that consider that Cairo used to be no longer a pharaonic town this Nilometer is from the Roman technology. The inundation additionally introduced with it a couple of centimeters of wealthy black loam and it used to be this" black gold' ,so totally wealthy in vitamins and minerals that allowed the agrarian tradition alongside the Nile to provide tremendous harvests with out using any fertilization or the have to enable an field to stay fallow to regain its richness, as used to be the case in agriculture in other places. Since the creation of the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser the Nile river is now not at danger of flooding and for the primary time in 5000 years of agriculture in Egypt, the farmers have discovered a have to use fertilizers.

Answer 4

A theocracy will not fix the Nile (just LOOK at what theocracies have done around the World !!!!!!!!!!)

The Nile may have some problems but drying to nothing is not one of them

Answer 5

If you know the Lords Prayer then you know Jesus told us in the prayer to pray for God's Kingdom to come.

It will bring about a parklike garden , a paradise for us to live in. Just like reports of global warming, rivers and lakes rising...ozone layer dangerously close to exposing us to rays from the sun....

Only God can fix the earth...we need a theocracy...Pray hard.

Answer 6

i think thats aload of garbage.the nile has been there more millions of years...you seriously think it will run dry in 20 years...when i was there three years ago...it was still as big as it was 3 million years ago..you can always believe what you read