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	Nekhebet.com - The Nile River
		The Nile River is a wonder in its own right, being the wellspring for civilization in ancient Egypt and Northern Africa for the last 10,000 years.
		The Blue Nile is home to some of the greatest mysteries of Africa, such as the Ark of the Covenant, the religious artifact rumored to be found somewhere near Lake Tana, and made famous by the Indiana Jones movie.
		In the past, the volume of the Nile was highly unstable, providing little water during the early months of the year, and flooding the countryside in August and September.
	www.nekhebet.com /w_nile.html (685 words)

	Nile - MSN Encarta
		The landscape along the river varies from rain forests and mountains in the south to savannas and swamps in southern Sudan to barren deserts in the north.
		Principal river ports are Luxor and Aswān in Egypt and WādīḨalfā’, Dunqulah, Kuraymah, Kūstī, Malakāl and Juba in Sudan.
		The 1959 Nile Waters Agreement resolved an international dispute concerning the equitable division of the river’s water among the countries of the region.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761558310/Nile.html (1053 words)

	Egypt State Information Service - River Nile
		The Nile flows from south to north and is formed by three major tributaries: the White Nile, the Blue Nile and the Atbara.
		The dam was built to regulate the flow of the Nile River, and thus benefit the region's inhabitants.
		The proximity of the Desert to the river is a constant reminder of the fragility of the narrow strip of life which survives all the way from Aswan to Cairo.
	www.sis.gov.eg /En/Land&people/RNile/031400000000000001.htm (1193 words)

	Civilization.ca - Egyptian civilization - Geography - Nile valley
		The majestic Nile River flows north from the headwaters in Burundi to the Mediterranean Sea, a distance of 6,650 kilometres.
		The long, narrow river valley is the stem, the delta that spreads out in the shape of a triangle is the flower, and Fayyum Region is a bud.
		or centuries, the Nile River flooded the valley, enriching the land with a thick layer of alluvial soil.
	www.civilization.ca /civil/egypt/egcgeo3e.html (480 words)

	The Nile
		The Nile, as defined starting with the Kyaka river in Burundi, is 6,671 km long, and has a surface area of a total of 3,350,000 km² (5 times the area of France).
		The Nile can be divided into three zones, starting in the south: The first consists of tributaries to the two streams of the White Nile and the Blue Nile which join near Khartoum in Sudan.
		The width of the Nile north from Aswan in Egypt — it's most important stretch in terms of inhabitants and economy — is 2.8 km in average.
	i-cias.com /e.o/nile.htm (993 words)

	The Nile River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Nile River ("Nahr in Nil" in Arabic) is the longest river in Africa.
		The Victoria Nile is born from Lake Victoria, which is fed by several tributaries, the most important being the Luvironza river.
		From Khartoum, the Nile River flows northeast, and at Atbara the river is joined from the east by the Atbara River.
	www.geog.okstate.edu /1113web/newpg11.htm (271 words)

	Nile River Basin
		The White Nile has a relatively constant flow, the Blue Nile in contrast is affected by the tremendous runoff resulting from the late July to October rains on the Ethiopian Plateau.
		The Atbara is fed by the Angereb and Tekezo.
		It is composed of the silt carried by the river from the Ethiopian Plateau.
	www.providence.edu /polisci/students/mideast_water/nile_1.htm (998 words)

	Egypt at mrdowling.com
		The silt is dropped on the banks of the Nile as the flood recedes, and creates excellent topsoil that provides two or three crops every year.
		• The land beyond the Nile River Valley is a desert.
		Egypt was not invaded by the sea until a French navy led by Napoleon Bonaparte invaded in 1798.
	www.mrdowling.com /604egypt.html (353 words)

	The Nile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Given the importance of the Nile flooding [9] and its regularity, it is no wonder that the Egyptians began measuring the rise probably even before historic times in order to predict the harvest.
		The lowest Nile on record is dated by Martineau [13] to the year 966 CE and amounted to six and a half metres.
		The large wild animals living in the Nile, the hippos and crocodiles, or farther afield, the lions and ostriches [6] were hunted and their habitats destroyed.
	nefertiti.iwebland.com /geography/nile.htm (2394 words)

	Nile River - Map - MSN Encarta
		The Nile is the longest river in the world, measuring 6,695 km (4,160 mi) from its remotest headstream in Burundi to its mouth at the Mediterranean Sea.
		The Nile proper rises at Lake Victoria, and flows north through much of eastern Africa.
		Heavy rainfalls cause the Nile to flood each summer, while the river reaches its lowest volumes between January and May.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461519267_761558310_-1_1/Nile_River.html (62 words)

	Case Study
		The Nile river is the main source of water for the nine nations which make up the Nile basin.
		In addition, development projects that are aimed at increasing the flow of the Nile remain endangered by tension and instability in the region, as well as by environmental and financial concerns.
		The nations of the Nile basin have also classified access to the waters of the Nile river as a vital national interest over which they would be willing to go to war.
	www.american.edu /projects/mandala/TED/ice/NILE.HTM (3192 words)

	Nile River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Nile River is the longest river in the world.
		Parts of the Nile, boats cannot sail on because the water is to rough.
		An Aswam is built across the Nile, and its one of the largest manmade lakes in the world.
	staff.fcps.net /kschneid/egypt/nile_river.htm (196 words)

	The Nile: water conflicts
		According to the World Bank, the Nile River Basin is home to an estimated 160 million people, while almost 300 million live in the ten countries that share the Nile's waters.
		The process was officially named the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) later in the same year, and in November 2002 a secretariat was established in Entebbe, Uganda, with funding from the World Bank.
		Howard told IRIN the formation of the Nile International Discourse Desk [http://www.nilediscourse.org], as the initiative is known, did not come easy because governments were initially cautious over the inclusion of civil society groups in the process.
	www.scienceinafrica.co.za /2003/may/nile.htm (1516 words)

	The Nile River
		The Nile River was one of the ancient Egyptians most valuable resources and values.
		The length of the Nile (from White Nile source to mouth) is 6695 kilometers.
		On average the Nile River’s discharge its 3.1 million litres (680,000) gallons per second.
	members.core.com /gerbys/NileRiver.htm (238 words)

	BLUE NILE
		The source of the White Nile is in the Great or Equatorial Lakes Region, and is also fed by the Bahr-el-Jebel water system to the north and east of the Nile-Congo Rivers divide.(6) Its catchment area includes the riparian states of Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Congo/Zaire, Kenya and Sudan.
		The Blue Nile and the Atbara are subject to heavy seasonal fluctuations in flow as a result of the seasonal rains of the Ethiopian highlands.
		Ethiopia's willingness to demand a greater share of the Nile waters was echoed in a February 1997 policy paper, presented during a four-day annual conference on the use of Nile River waters.
	www.american.edu /ted/ice/bluenile.htm (4285 words)

	The Nile River
		It is from the River Nile that Egyptians draw their friendly character.
		The latter joins the River Nile and the Red Sea, and was later rebuilt by Amr Ibn El-As.
		It protected them against the annual River Nile inundation, saved the excess water to be used later at different times, and thereby spared them the sufferings of drought.
	www.nileriver.com /nile/nileinfo/nileinfo.htm (629 words)

	The Nile River
		Nile is the world's longest river at 4,184 miles.
		entire Nile River Delta is estimated to drain an area of 1,293,000 square miles.
		Nile River Delta is home to many species of animals, including crocodiles, turtles, baboons, wildebeest, and more than 300 species of birds, including fishing eagles, ibis, and the Nile Valley Sunbird.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /articles/geography/nileriver.htm (260 words)

	Nile River Basin
		The pilot project on the Nile Valley has been set up to prepare an experimental methodology for identifying the potential water-related problems in a watershed.
		The first stage of the project focused on the compilation of available geoferenced data sets of the Nile valley region to be used as inputs for water balance modeling.
		The report "Water Sharing in the Nile River Valley" can be downloaded by clicking here (PDF-2.91Mb).
	www.grid.unep.ch /activities/sustainable/nile/index.php (185 words)

	the Living Africa: the land - Nile River - intro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Nile River basin is immense and occupies an area about one-tenth of the continent of Africa.
		The river's water and the fertile soil along its banks created the perfect setting for the evolution of the civilizations that existed in the ancient world.
		The ancient peoples that lived along the river's banks cultivated the art of agriculture and were one the first to utilize the plow.
	library.thinkquest.org /16645/the_land/nile_river.shtml (341 words)

	Nile
		The Ruvyironza, regarded as the ultimate source of the Nile, is one of the upper branches of the Kagera River in Tanzania.
		The Nile river valley is home to a host of wildlife, including Nile crocodile, hippopotamuses, more than 300 species of birds, and numerous fish species.
		A dam at Jabal Awliya was constructed on the White Nile south of Khartoum in 1937.
	www.egyptlovers.8m.net /nileriver.htm (1005 words)

	Nile River Explorers - Uganda's leading adventure specialists - White water rafting, river boarding, kayaking, ...
		Nile River Explorers (N.R.E) came to Uganda in 1995 and were the first to scout the Nile River and obtain a license for commercial river rafting.
		The Nile Porch and Black Lantern are to be found at Bujagali, 8kms from Jinja.
		Nile River Explorers is working closely within the local community through the UK registered charity 'Soft Power Education'.
	www.raftafrica.com (551 words)

	Ahoy - Mac's Web Log - The Top Ten Rivers of the World
		It has three major rivers contributing to it, the Blue Nile with its source in Ethiopia near Lake Tana, north of Khartoum, the White Nile and Blue Nile are joined by the Atbara, which also was born in the highlands of Ethiopia.
		The river drops a 170 million cubic meters of silt annually that assists a large plain in Jiangsu Province, where the major crop Rice, is the staple food of the Chinese.
		The Lena River is born in the mountains west of Lake Baikal, in south eastern Siberia, and to its mouth on the Laptev Sea in the Arctic it drains some 961,000 square miles.
	www.ahoy.tk-jk.net /macslog/TheTopTenRiversoftheWorld.html (2051 words)

	Nile River Valley (BiblePlaces.com)
		Where the Nile overflows its banks, the land is green, and where the water’s influence stops, the desert begins.
		The height to which the river would rise was important for agriculture, and Nilometers were built in the earliest times to measure the level of the river during the height of the inundation.
		The Nile River (Think Quest) Excellent resource providing information on a variety of topics related to the Nile, including its climate, flooding, irrigation, dams, and navigation.
	www.bibleplaces.com /nileriver.htm (651 words)

	The River Nile for Kids Homework
		The River Nile is formed from the Blue Nile, which originates at Lake Tana in Ethiopia, and the White Nile, which originates at Lake Victoria.
		Melting snow and heavy summer rain in the Ethiopian Mountains sent a torrent of water causing the banks of the River Nile in Egypt to overflow on the flat dessert land.
		The River Nile There is no better way to trace the course of Egyptian history than to follow the course of the Nile.
	www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk /homework/egypt/nile.htm (681 words)

	Nile River
		Because of this, all Ancient Egyptians are buried on the West Bank of the Nile, and the West Bank of the Nile became a symbol of the connection of life on earth and the afterlife.
		The Nile was one of the most important reasons that Egyptian civilization developed where it did, and it played a key role in the foundation of Egypt’s existence.
		The Nile River and the Nile River Valley also had a large affect on the economy of these people, and fueled their ground breaking agricultural and farming techniques.
	www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us /History/Egypt/04/haup/hauptfuhrer.htm (950 words)

	Nile — FactMonster.com
		Nile, longest river in the world, c.4,160 mi (6,695 km) long from its remotest headstream, the Luvironza River in Burundi, central Africa, to its delta on the Mediterranean Sea, NE Egypt.
		White Nile - White Nile White Nile, river, one of the chief tributaries of the Nile, E Africa.
		Abu Qir - Abu Qir Abu Qir or Abukir, village, N Egypt, on a promontory in the Nile River delta.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0835683.html (204 words)

	The Nile River
		The Nile is the longest river in the world, stretching north for approximately 4,000 miles from East Africa to the Mediterranean.
		The Nile flows from the mountains in the south to the Mediterranean in the north.
		Two Hymns to the Nile, one probably composed in the Middle Kingdom, the second written later in the Ramesside period, praise Hapy and the river for its renewed life for Egypt.
	www.touregypt.net /magazine/mag05012001/magf4a.htm (1476 words)

	Nile River
		No river in the world has such an enduring place in the history of humankind as the Nile.
		To cruise the Nile is to follow in the wake of pharaohs and empresses, to partake of some small measure of myth, and to experience a journey that you will remember for as long as you live.
		Today, as always, the Nile stands at the center of the life along its shores, defining a great north-south axis that is plied year-round by picturesque feluccas and luxurious cruise ships alike.
	www.geographia.com /egypt (620 words)

	Nile River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Water scarcity is being recognized as a looming crisis of nile proportions.
		The challenge takes on nile proportions because of interactions geographically (through the interdependence resulting from nileization of economy, finance, employment, etc.) and developmentally (through the interdependence of developmental sectors-resources, economy, population, environment, etc.).
		This is the situation that exists in the Nile River Basin between Egypt and Sudan and Ethiopia, two of its upstream riparian countries.
	genie.cwru.edu /nile.htm (342 words)

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