Water conflict in the Middle East and North Africa the military. The result is, that more than 33% of the water supplied to the Palestinian territories "leaks from internal pipelines". Both sides contest that the laws established in Oslo are no longer being followed. As the Palestinian population is not allocated enough water, the work of the Joint Water Commission can be considered as insufficient. The Nile River is an international water basin, running through 10 different sovereign nations. The Nile runs through Sudan, South Sudan, Burundi, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Egypt and is considered to be the longest river in the
Cataracts of the Nile Cataracts of the Nile The Cataracts of the Nile are shallow lengths (or white water rapids) of the Nile River, between Aswan and Khartoum, where the surface of the water is broken by many small boulders and stones jutting out of the river bed, as well as many rocky islets. In some places, these stretches are punctuated by whitewater, while at others the water flow is smoother, but still shallow. Counted going upstream (from north to south): The word cataract is a Greek word καταρρέω ("to flow down") although the original Greek term was Κατάδουποι(, οἱ - only masculine plural