https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn Environment and Human Life en-us 2018-07-15 23:22:22 UTC 2026-01-24 15:14:44 UTC hello@padlet.com ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270248434 Ground Water
Surface Water

Flooding is also very prevalent, yearly flooding is pertinent to the natural cycle of the basin. This flooding occurs June through September. This is a sacred time for many Egyptians. The formal name for this time period is "Akhet". Rainwater flows from the Blue Nile through the Atbarah River making its way to the Nile. This flooding is the lifeline for the Nile bringing vitality and fertile land to grow plants]]> 2018-07-15 23:27:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270248434 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270248481

Water Supply

Food Supply

Fuel

Wildlife

]]> 2018-07-15 23:28:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270248481 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270248487

Flow regulation

sediment retention

Water Purification

]]> 2018-07-15 23:28:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270248487 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270248490

Spiritual

Recreational

Educational

]]> 2018-07-15 23:28:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270248490 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270248518 "We found that the models projected temperature increases of around 2 °C to 5 °C for 2080–2100, depending on the model and emission scenario. The interquartile ranges of the projected temperature increases for 2070–2100 for the three emission scenarios show 2.0−4.4 °C in the wet season and 2.2−4.9 °C in the dry season. The ensemble of GCMs we examined includes models that project increases and decreases in seasonal precipitation." (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-02720-3_20)

(how will or is this impacting ecosystem services and the people reliant on the system?)]]> 2018-07-15 23:28:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270248518 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270248535 Hydropower - this energy source has huge potential as well as many economic benefits for poor economic nations

Top Benefits: long economic life, low per unit energy costs

Potential of 20GW of power on hydropower alone

Biofuels - Wastewater of the Nile is being used as biofuel]]> 2018-07-15 23:29:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270248535 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270248557 Sugarcane
Cotton
Rice
Palm Oil
Flowers
Coffee/tea
Corn
Wheat
Alfalfa
Groundnuts]]> 2018-07-15 23:29:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270248557 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270248567 Long term land leases (50- 100 years)
cheap, fertile land with low taxes
Grants free access to water sources 
"1 million hectares in Ethiopia leased to 896 companies"]]> 2018-07-15 23:29:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270248567 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270248573 Underdeveloped Economy
Pollution and Contamination
Delegation of water resources and political power

Solution #1: Adopt hydropower as a main tool to establish source of energy that can be monetized and sold, helping impoverished nations surrounding the Nile Basin]]> 2018-07-15 23:29:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270248573 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270248638 Size: 1.3 million sq mi (Nile River Length: 4,258 miles) 
Drainage: 1,256,591 sq mi
Current Precipitation: 1000mm annually
Projected Changes in Precipitation: Water deficit 26km cubed annually

Map image are according to Google]]> 2018-07-15 23:31:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270248638 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270248925 "Land-Grabbing" due to high demand for Nile River resources
Agricultural
Urban
NBI infrastructure

Solution #3: Use of transparent contracts to help prevent against Land-Grabbing for the wrong purposes - should be decided democratically

Image URL: https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/2015/03/owns-nile-150325143210621.html]]> 2018-07-15 23:36:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270248925 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270248958 Conflict Region
Complex Hydroponics - Hydro-hegemony
National Security
Sovereignty
New Riparian
Political volte-face
redefinition of regional political & economic landscape
New infastructure Projects
Change of Balance of Power
Official 'dyad' (Egypt, Sudan, U.S. & Europe) vs Upstream Bloc (EAC, Ethopia, India & China)]]> 2018-07-15 23:37:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270248958 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270249012 Loss of Habitat
Species
Ecosystem services
Water
Pollution]]> 2018-07-15 23:38:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270249012 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270249109 Dictated by water allegations 

River Morphology, reservoir sedimentation

Sub-basin (National)
Basin (Trans-regional)]]> 2018-07-15 23:40:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270249109 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270249116 Heavy metals and pollution have been detected in many parts of the river/basin so drinking potential is limited
Untreated sewage/dumping is also an issue as well as anthropocentric inputs (agricultural and industrial)
Water quality of the Nile has become a major issue in Egypt 

Solution #2: enforce water distillation, reverse osmosis and activated carbon filtration]]> 2018-07-15 23:40:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270249116 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270249152 Egypt - rain-fed
The Nile River Basin is a breadbasket
Agricultural investors, large companies, diaspora
fisheries]]> 2018-07-15 23:40:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270249152 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270249168 Water and Food security go hand in hand, contamination of water leads to poor food security]]> 2018-07-15 23:41:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270249168 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270249184 Government National and Regional (Sub-basin & Basin)]]> 2018-07-15 23:41:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270249184 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270249206 Number of people reliant on the system: 160 million inhabitants

Nile River Basin attributes to wealth of a family, ability to marry and livelihood

Link: https://www.pri.org/categories/losing-nile]]> 2018-07-15 23:42:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270249206 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270249243 Hegemonic downstream riparians]]> 2018-07-15 23:42:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270249243 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270249253 Underdeveloped economy
Foreign & National investors (Gulf countries, China, India, US- EU and Egypt)
National Governments- federal and regional
Environmental Impacts

]]> 2018-07-15 23:43:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270249253 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270249316 Pollution & Chemical Contamination
Dumping ]]> 2018-07-15 23:44:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270249316 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270249357 URL link to image: http://wordpress.clarku.edu/id252-ethiopia/2014/12/01/nile-river-basin-conflict/]]> 2018-07-15 23:45:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270249357 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270249998 Link URL: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Schematic-overview-of-the-water-conflict-in-the-Nile-River-basin_fig6_228417148]]> 2018-07-15 23:59:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270249998 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270250320 Main hydraulic state which as a monopoly over the Nile waters
Strong and diversified economy
Monolithic and Stable Political system
Supports international community]]> 2018-07-16 00:04:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270250320 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270250675 January: Independence in South Sudan
February: Revolution in Egypt; Fall of Mubarak
March: Burundi signs cooperative framework agreement
March contin.: Grand Renaissance Dam was made public by Ethiopia
July: de facto independence of South Sudan
August: Tripartite committee established]]> 2018-07-16 00:10:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270250675 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270251189 New country, new border and new neighbors, new regional security complex
Relations regarding up and downstream
Nile Basin Initiative
Dependence on North Sudan
New Oil Pipeline
NBI/CFA]]> 2018-07-16 00:15:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270251189 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270251681 Changes in politics to balance power
Nile as unifying element
Nile used as political tool
Economic crisis in Egypt
New economic tradeoffs upstream
hydro-hegemony to co-riparian ]]> 2018-07-16 00:19:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270251681 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270252050 Affirming Economic and Social importance of the Nile River Basin
CFA open for ratification
Legal implications regarding NBI 1959 Agreement
Commission established after ratification
End of all provisional arrangements
NBC: New legal status, with arrangements]]> 2018-07-16 00:21:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270252050 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270252435 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5iLk3NRnQs
$4.7 billion dollar project that spans 1.1 miles]]> 2018-07-16 00:25:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270252435 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270253302 2018-07-16 00:33:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270253302 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270257401

Soil formation

Nutrient cycling

]]> 2018-07-16 01:16:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270257401 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270260149 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-02720-3]]> 2018-07-16 01:42:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270260149 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270460988 The Nile River is the longest river in the world, spanning over 35 degrees in latitude

The basin itself is spread over 10 countries and attributes for 10 percent of Africa's continent]]> 2018-07-18 00:30:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270460988 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270767834 Flooding & Water Availability]]> 2018-07-22 00:22:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270767834 ella_young08 https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270814057 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TNfZ1dygcwJw7iz_do8zSYUPDVAv_eD2Xm1qh0kSDJM/edit?usp=sharing]]> 2018-07-23 00:32:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ella_young08/vewyoppro9jn/wish/270814057