In order to start a small or big development projects around the Nile River Basin countries, the Nile basin members and international community should come up with negotiable pacts, including Egypt the biggest actor in Nile River issue, to avoid regional misunderstanding and fabricating non-stop war.
For example, people, who were born without applications to be born in the area and have been living around the Nile Basin, are victimized for unknown long years due to a lack of development. A lack of development has created a shortage of food crises, continuously, on those innocent citizens. The most destructive and ugly famine which was occurred in Ethiopia in 1973 and 1977 have killed and displaced a million of citizens, and it was one of the biggest hot issue's for Western media outlets.
If Ethiopia had an opportunity and permission to use her national water, the Blue Nile, which contributes 85% of the Nile River, the world's biggest mass destructive and ugly famine could not be occurred. In addition, countries have their own boundaries and no country has a right to make decision on someone's country pyramid, river, lake, mountain and forest beyond its territory. Since researches have indicated that 95% of the Egypt's water resources covered by the Nile River, Egypt has been blocking any positive effort on using Nile water based on the colonial- era law that prohibited Nile Basin countries to use their natural water which created and found in their national territory.
In my view, that law which was signed and approved by non-concerned countries excluding Ethiopia, the major contributor of the water, doesn't make sense and it is a laughable theory. The old killer law should be lifted and replaced by a new pact which could create acceptable status for all countries in the region or Ethiopia should take unilateral action to use her water to prevent her citizens from extra famine. Ethiopians are humans like Egyptians!! They deserve the right to use their nature gifted river on their land. No more trouble, hungry and thirsty again because of colonial era law.
