If you follow this blog, you know I’ve been writing about the Nile River treaty fight since the fall of the government of Egypt.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/02/opinion/02Brown.html
This article adds in facts (not confirmed) that South Korea, India, and China (among others) are leasing large plots of land in Sudan for the purpose of growing food in Africa, using water that will no longer be going down the Nile to Egypt.
The author of this has an agenda – he completely avoided mentioning that the “treaty” of the use of water was made between the countries when England was still in the colonial era – essentially, England decided themselves how to split up the Nile River, allowing the countries where the river originates access to none of their water.
Since much of the inflow into the Mediterranean Sea comes from the Nile, the more water that is diverted, the higher the salt levels will grow until eventually it won’t support life (the sea is already much more saline than the ocean – water flows in from the Atlantic Ocean and then evaporates)