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Chapter One. Toward A Provisional Understanding 1 Framing the Challenges 1 The Political Challenge 5 The Demographic Challenge 7 The Economic Challenge 12 The Hydrological and Ecological Challenge 16 Urbanization, Pollution, and the Challenge of Clean Water 22 The Governance Challenge 25 The Neoliberalist Challenge 28 Conclusion 31 Chapter Two. Egypt: Gift of the Nile 33 The Elusive Quest for Food Security and the Modernization Imperatives 34 After Modernization 46 The Puzzle 53 Chapter Three. The Sudan: A Hydrographic Bridge? 57 The Beginnings 57 An Arab "Breadbasket"? 59 The Politics of Internal Governance 65 The Sudd and the Jonglei Canal: Twin Crimes Against Nature and Society 71 The Puzzle 75 Chapter Four. Ethiopia: Land of the "Blue Gold" 79 The Hydrological Context 79 The Elusive Quest for Food Security and the Modernization Imperatives 82 The Politics of Internal Governance 88 The Eritrean Dimension of the Nile Waters 93 The Puzzle 96 Chapter Five. The Middle Nile "Squatters": Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda 101 The Historical Context 101 The Elusive Quest for Food Security and the Modernization Imperatives 103 Aquatic Resources and the Search for More Food Security 126 The Puzzle 140 Chapter Six. The Uppermost Riparian States: Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo 145 Problematizing Watershed Integrity 145 The Ethnography of Hydrology and Food Security 147 The Puzzle 160 Chapter Seven. Thinking aboutthe Future 163 Toward an Integrative Epistemology and Regional Authenticity 164 Toward a Nile Family of Nations 178 Toward Holistic Economies 181 Toward a Politics of Collective Self-Reliance 188 Conclusion 199