Hydropolitics of the Nile Valley

acreage agreement agricultural Ahmad al-Ahram al-Azhari Arab Aswan Dam Aswan High Dam Atbara average barrages basin Behr el-Jebel billion kWh billion m³ Blue Nile British Cairo capacity capital Century Storage Scheme construction cost cotton countries crops cultivation dam's Delta downstream drainage drains economic Egyptian estimates Ethiopia evaporation exports Fathy figure financing flood Gezira growth IBRD important increase industrial investment irrigation Jebel Auliya Jonglei Canal Khartoum kilometers km² Lake Nasser Lake Tana land reclamation Libya main Nile major ment meters military million feddans million tons Minister Ministry of Irrigation needs Nile Valley Nile Waters Numeiry over-year storage percent perennial irrigation period political population potential problem production regime regional reservoir river Sadat Saudi Arabia sector sediment seepage Sennar silt soil sources southern Soviet Sudan Sudanese Sudd Suez sugar supply surface tion upstream water table Western White Nile World