Okbazghi Yohannes is Professor of International Studies at the University of Louisville and the author of several books, including Political Economy of an Authoritarian Modern State and Religious Nationalism in Egypt and (with Kidane Mengisteab) Anatomy of an African Tragedy: Political, Economic, and Foreign Policy Crisis in Post-Independence Eritrea.

• Acknowledgments 1. Toward A Provisional UnderstandingFraming the ChallengesThe Political Challenge The Demographic ChallengeThe Economic ChallengeThe Hydrological and Ecological ChallengeUrbanization, Pollution, and the Challenge of Clean WaterThe Governance ChallengeThe Neoliberalist ChallengeConclusion2. Egypt: Gift of the NileThe Elusive Quest for Food Security and the Modernization ImperativesAfter ModernizationThe Puzzle3. The Sudan: A Hydrographic Bridge?The BeginningsAn Arab "Breadbasket"?The Politics of Internal GovernanceThe Sudd and the Jonglei Canal: Twin Crimes Against Nature and SocietyThe Puzzle4. Ethiopia: Land of the "Blue Gold" The Hydrological ContextThe Elusive Quest for Food Security and the ModernizationImperativesThe Politics of Internal GovernanceThe Eritrean Dimension of the Nile WatersThe Puzzle5. The Middle Nile "Squatters": Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda The Historical ContextThe Elusive Quest for Food Security and the ModernizationImperativesAquatic Resources and the Search for More Food SecurityThe Puzzle6. The Uppermost Riparian States: Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of CongoProblematizing Watershed IntegrityThe Ethnography of Hydrology and Food SecurityThe Puzzle 7. Thinking about the FutureToward an Integrative Epistemology and Regional AuthenticityToward a Nile Family of NationsToward Holistic EconomiesToward a Politics of Collective Self-RelianceConclusion NotesBibliographyIndex

"The author sounds the alarm of the coming dangers, warning all concerned and especially the leaders of the relevant countries, urging them to rethink their national focus in favor of collective strategies from which all can benefit as well as avoid, or at least mitigate, further disasters." — Bereket Habte Selassie, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill