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WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Mideast water: 'Oil' of the 21st century Egypt prepares to share resources of mighty Nile River ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- By Anthony C. LoBaido © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com LARNACUS, Cyprus – With its near monopoly on the mighty Nile River, Egypt, a major resource power broker in the Middle East, is preparing to share the waterway's fresh water with its neighbors. Access to water – a resource poised to be to the 21st century what oil was to the 20th – is one of the most critical problems facing the Middle East today. The area has become a jigsaw puzzle of the haves and have-nots of the natural resource game. "Jordan lacks oil and water. Iraq has an abundance of both. Egypt is another nation with abundant water resources. And how Egypt uses that water, the Nile, may determine the fate of nations and the entire region," a Mossad intelligence officer based in Amman, Jordan, told WorldNetDaily. The percentage of total flow of water originating outside a nation's borders is the measure of that country's "water sovereignty." Egypt ranks worst in this regard at 97 percent. This means that only 3 percent of Egypt's water originates from within Egypt. Venezuela has 65 percent of its water resources inside its own borders. Thailand controls a healthy 61 percent of its own water resources. What makes Egypt a player in the water game, then, is the Aswan High Dam. Lake Nasser was formed when the High Dam was built above Aswan on the Nile. Built between 1960 and 1972 by Russian engineers, the dam has meant the end of Egypt's dependence on the annual flooding of the Nile, but it also has brought its own problems. The most pressing of these at the time of construction was the flooding of the Nile Valley in Nubia, which would cover both modern villages and many ancient Egyptian sites in water. Thousands of villagers were moved to new homes, and work began to protect the temples. Aswan is situated at the south end of the section of the Nile plied by the cruise fleets, and just upriver is the First Cataract, the old Aswan dam, and further, the High Dam. Aswan used to be the border trading city for Egypt and adjoining Nubia, as well as the rest of southern Africa. A high percentage of Aswan's population is of Nubian descent. It still represents a major commerce center, and some very pungent spices from the south can be obtained in the bazaars here. Also at Aswan is the Nilometer, where the Pharaoh's officials measured the annual flood and set that year's tax level. The Nile is the longest river on Earth – and its influence in the area matches its size. With the prompting of American and European influence, as well as the U.N. and the World Bank, Egypt is changing its foreign policy. In the past, Egypt was a source of guns and funds for various insurgency groups in neighboring lands – especially Sudan, Somalia and Ethiopia. Sudan is currently caught up in a civil war between the radical Islamic government of Khartoum and the black Christians in South Sudan. In the late 1950s, Egypt signed a treaty with Sudan that granted Cairo almost 90 percent of the Nile's water. By helping to foment revolution in Ethiopia – which was beset with a Soviet-sponsored Marxist insurrection that took many lives – Egypt stopped that nation from developing its own water resources on the Nile. The Nile basin states will be happy to learn, however, that Egypt now is ready to share more of its water resources. For many decades, Egypt has kept almost absolute power over the Nile. But now Ethiopia, Sudan and the six Great Lakes states will get a bigger slice of the Nile's pie. These six states are Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo. As the European Union and the U.S. encourage Africa to be broken up into trading blocks, both southern and northern, Egypt is seen as a major player in the Northern African trading block. Currently, South Africa is the lynchpin of the southern trading block and receives nine out of every 10 portfolio investment dollars and almost half of all total investment on the continent. The government of South Africa now is helping Egypt's foreign investment in a series of bilateral negotiations. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will have to forge treaties with the African states concerning hydroelectric power development, river regulation and resources management. Egypt's technological leadership over its neighbors in the development of water resources will no doubt placate fears in Cairo about a loss of a monopoly on the Nile. "The Egyptians have long believed that the Milky Way galaxy is the reflection of the Nile in the heavens. If the current plans to share the Nile's life-bringing powers with her black African neighbors can succeed, then we will surely see the stars shining both day and night," said Willy Shultz, a German engineer currently working with the Egyptian government on its new regional water development schemes. "Africa can work," added Shultz. "The course of war and poverty can be changed. It will take hard work, and new notions of sharing. There's plenty of water for everyone. However, Egyptians will have to make do with a little less so that other neighboring countries may eat and drink." *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. 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