What is water? Power & Conflict on the River Nile

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What is Water?

Nancy Smith

9 episodes

1 day ago

Welcome to the What is Water? Podcast! Allowing you to see water for the first time. We will broaden ideas and knowledge of water by pulling apart its role in everyday life. What is water’s role in the food that you eat, the clothes you wear, conflict, developing the cities you love, religion spritulaity, climate change, and why do you pay water bills for in the first place? Water is so much more than you think. Lead researcher, producer, editor: Nancy Smith Content adviser: Paul O'Callaghan (S2 EP1&2 only) Sound design and engineering: Howie Fiddy (S2 only)

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What is water? Power & Conflict on the River Nile

What is Water?

39 minutes 31 seconds

4 years ago

What is water? Power & Conflict on the River Nile

Water is power, politics, conflict, and resolution. And it’s a story that plays out all over the world everyday.

Join as we unpack the drama unfolding right now on the River Nile and show you a side of water that you never thought existed.

When water becomes political, who holds the power? Does it matter? And why can’t everyone just get along?

Additional resources:

(N.B. when getting to grips with a water story it's important to find different perspectives from many sources to understand the whole story and make your own conclusions. WiW? tries to provide reliable resources from various perspectives regardless of personal views).

World is One New (WION): Gravitas: Nile Dam talks fail, again (April 2021)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-NK8-2s7ww

Arab News: Egypt, EU discuss Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam crisis (Mar 2021)

https://arab.news/vfqzv

The New Arab: Sudan implies it could take control of contentious Ethiopia dam (Mar 2021)

https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2021/5/2/sudan-implies-it-could-take-control-of-ethiopia-dam

TRT World News: Why is the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam so controversial? (Feb 2021)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAI302LwJrA

Journal: The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Egyptian National Security, and human and food security in the Nile River Basin (Jan 2021)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311886.2021.1875598

Al Jezeera The Stream: Can Ethiopia and Egypt agree on the Nile? (Sept 2020)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jLnccqhYyo (25mins)

IHE Delft 💧 Prof. Pieter van der Zaag discusses the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Jul 2020)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp0ml3XrgSE (15mins)