Despite having fought five wars with Israel, the country Egypt ismost likely to come into conflict with next is Ethiopia, and the issueis the Nile. Two of the continent‘s oldest countries, with the largestarmies, may come to blows over the region‘s major source of water. - P128
Ethiopia is sometimes called Africa‘s water tower, due to its highelevation, and has more than twenty dams fed by the rainfall in itshighlands. - P129
in theory the dam could also hold a year‘s worth of water, and completion of the projectwould give Ethiopia the potential to hold the water for its own use,
thus drastically reducing the flow into Egypt. - P129