This story has two parts the first talks about the history of the Nile and the GERD uncluding data and information with reference while the second is simply my point of view on the current situation.
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The Nile river is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa, and is the longest river in Africa and the disputed longest river in the world, The Nile is about 6,650 km (4,130 mi) long and its drainage basin covers eleven countries: Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Republic of the Sudan, and Egypt.
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The intersection of the rivers in Sudan
The Nile has two major tributaries – the White Nile and the Blue Nile. The White Nile is longer and rises in the Great Lakes region of central Africa, while the blue Nile starts from lake Tana in Ethiopia and these two major tributaries meet in Khartoum, Sudan's capital city. Which from there joins together and flow north towards Egypt.
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Egyptian civilization and Sudanese kingdoms have depended on the river since ancient times. Most of the population and cities of Egypt lie along those parts of the Nile valley north of Aswan, and nearly all the cultural and historical sites of Ancient Egypt are found along river banks. In particular, the Nile is the primary water source of Egypt and Sudan but the Nile originates in Ethiopia, with fifty-nine percent of the water from the Blue Nile
Now enough with the data and let's talk history, since Sudan and Egypt depend on the Nile as a major source and both being under British rule back at the days Britain decided to divide the courses of the Nile river between Egypt and Sudan only .
