What is being done to protect the Nile river?
What is being done to protect the Nile river? NRAP's mission is to exceed UNEP Global River Water Quality Standards by improving salinity, preventing further environmental degradation, and reducing heavy metal concentrations of the northern stretch of the Nile River running through Egypt by the year 2030.
Why should the Nile river be protected?
The Nile River is a vital resource for the people of northern Africa and needs to be protected. It provides water for agriculture, industry, and drinking water for millions of people.
Who has control over the Nile river?
From its headwaters in Ethiopia and the central African highlands to the downstream regional superpower Egypt, the Nile flows through 10 nations. But by a quirk of British colonial history, only Egypt and its neighbor Sudan have any rights to its water.
Would Egypt survive without the Nile?
The Nile was a critical lifeline that literally brought life to the desert, as Lisa Saladino Haney, assistant curator of Egypt at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, writes on the museum's website. Without the Nile, there would be no Egypt, writes Egyptologist in his 2012 book, The Nile.
Is Nile water drinkable?
The River Nile is the primary source of freshwater for drinking, irrigation, and industrial purposes in Egypt.
What happens if the Nile dried up?
Famine and death occur when the flood is delayed and the Nile dries up. About 110 million Egyptians eat, drink and live on the Nile waters, the only life artery.