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The festival of the Nile as depicted in Norden's Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie Map of the Nile river. The flooding of the Nile (commonly referred to as the inundation) has been an important natural cycle in Nubia and Egypt since ancient times. It is celebrated by Egyptians as an annual holiday for two weeks starting August 15, known as Wafaa El-Nil.
The Nile was also an important part of ancient Egyptian spiritual life. Hapi was the god of the annual floods, and both he and the pharaoh were thought to control the flooding. The Nile was considered to be a causeway from life to death and the afterlife.
The issue then for Egypt, among other countries in the Nile Basin, is whether this project will decrease water flow in the Nile. The Nile Basin Initiative , Egypt's civil society , and foreign relations are a few of the main contributors to the historical and social framework Egypt's hydro-politics and environmental concerns.
Egypt assumed the right to undertake Nile river related projects without the consent of upper riparian states. Egypt assumed the right to veto any construction projects that would affect her interests adversely. In effect, this agreement gave Egypt complete control over the Nile during the dry season when water is most needed for agricultural ...
Ancient branches of the Nile, showing Wadi Tumilat, and the lakes east of the Delta. People have lived in the Nile Delta region for thousands of years, and it has been intensively farmed for at least the last five thousand years. The delta was a major constituent of Lower Egypt, and there are many archaeological sites in and around the delta. [6]
The world's second-longest river and lifeblood of multiple African countries is facing a variety of risks it's never seen before.
Egypt is concerned that Ethiopia is using water from the Nile to fill its giant Renaissance dam.
Due to his fertile nature he was sometimes considered the "father of the gods", [1] and was considered to be a caring father who helped to maintain the balance of the cosmos, the world or universe regarded as an orderly, harmonious system. [1] He was thought to live within a cavern at the supposed source of the Nile near Aswan. [4]