The Struggle for Water
You can say this issue all started back in Ancient Egypt, 3000 BC. When they discovered that the Nile caused the land to be fertile; that land leads to agriculture which makes Egypt food and money thus growing their economy but in The Story of the Nile, Baines explains how the pharaoh used this to his advantage and decides to exploit it ultimately having “ownership of land, taxation of its produce, administrative measures to ensure that it was cultivated, and compulsory labour,” and so in return the king was responsible for the storage and provisions against failure and they had to take the blame. So this eventually leads to modern day Egypt and the people who have power (the upper-class) can control it. Egypt has hold onto their water rights so much that they rejected an agreement along with Sudan for a Cooperative Framework Agreement that would allow more water shares among the countries. While Egypt barely manages to stay afloat other countries have troubles, in the book A Long Walk to Water it tells a story of a girl in South Sudan who walks everyday to the Nile for some water to bring back home and another story about a boy who eventually sets up the program, Water for South Sudan. Other countries don't have a constant supply of water and electricity unlike in more prosperous areas such as the US, Canada, or the United Kingdom.
You can watch the documentary, Struggle Over the Nile below.
You can watch the documentary, Struggle Over the Nile below.