Egypt is the gift of the Nile. This a wise saying said by Herodotu centuries ago. Today we can say that The Nile is the artery of life in Egypt on which we depend mainly to irrigate our fields and to drink .So messing around the share of Egypt from the Nile water is an undeniable national security case. I can say that banning a drop of water to reach us in Egypt will be met with shedding millions of blood drops to restore it.I would like to hint out that it is remarkable that throughout history the great Egyptian rulers paid attention to the Nile and its strategic importance as part of our national security since the time of ancient Egyptians. I will not speak in ancient history but I will speak about the modern history. Mohamed Ali understood the importance of both Sudan and the Nile sources and thus he expanded in the South before he would go to the East and to the North building his fast empire.
There have been continuous warnings that Israel was and is still messing around in the Nile Basin countries encouraging them to build dams giving them expertise needed to do such thing in order to affect Egypt's share from the Nile water.
I want to hint out that there is a huge responsibility lay on us whether a regime or the people. We are wasting the Nile water in the best way we can using it in useless projects like golf courses and those endless swimming pools everywhere where as farmers do not have access to clean water and use sewage instead and people across the country can't have a clean glass of water !!!!??
Of course the official media is attacking the farmers and does not dare to open its mouth against the businessmen who are wasting our precious water in useless projects and polluting with their industrial and chemical wastes. I believe the current crisis , the current struggle is an alarm to all of us.
Some people say that we are on the verge of the first water war in the world , I disagree , we can reach to a peaceful solution that will make everyone happy if we really want to. If we have a real cooperation with the Nile basin countries , if we can make them our really allies, if we want to stop Israel for messing around us and threatening our national security we must think in strategic way in winning allies and friends. Those African countries need us as much as we need them.
