Officials here say this dam will help to lift the country out of poverty. Its a persuasive argument, but economic development here as it does everywhere, comes at a moral and ethic cost. Behind the dam, a vast track of wilderness will be submerged un

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A colonial area treaty drawn up by the British awarded Egypt the rights to 66 percent of the river's entire flow. Ethiopia, where the majority of the water in the Nile originates got none. -We are hugely remote part of the plan here, but make no mist

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This is Arerwoha, arebit for the awaisis. It's a twenty two thousand acre state in their farm that uses more than 8 million Gallons water from the Nile every day. It's a model that manager A thinks could be replicated along the link for the river. Lo

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I was nearing the end of the blue Nile. This is the confluence of the Nile. I'm on the blue Nile. Down there, has the wide Nile joining this river and together forming the mighty one the legend Nile. This isn't absolutely key to graphical spot on the

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Other inscriptions carved into the ancient stones telling a new force travelling out the Nile.-There's a cross here. Times changed. And Christianity came to the shrine. In fact, this became a base, from which monks went on missions to the south to co

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I'd arrived in Egypt, the upper Aswan Dam was built in 1960's and generated electricity, provided reservoir of waters for farms and control flooding along the Nile, the result of rainy season in Ethiopia. Before the dam, heavy floods could decimate t

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The following day I was back on the road, heading across the desert. This is a part of Sudan beyond the reach of the river where little can survive. I was traveling to a region that was once home to the ancient Nile civilization now known as Nubia, i

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Can India's great river and a culture more than 3,500 years old survive the pressures of the 21st century? And there it is, the holy Ganges, it's a river that is revered as a Goddess, the reason i'm starting my journey here is because above this poin

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I am going on a series of astonishing adventures. Traveling along three of the mightiest rivers on the planet.These rivers have given rights to some of the world's greatest civilizations. For centuries, we washed their life-giving waters and feared t

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From their origins of melting glacier in the high Himalayas, thewaters of Ganges descend more than 12,000 feet, carving their way throughprecipitous gorges. There is half a mile drop. Although the Ganges is steepedin history and religious tradition,

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Have there any connection between Shiva and the Gangers? When you see the huge drag loss that Shiva has, and that's he is supposed to have tamed. The untamed ...Gangers. In his drag loss, yeah. So the Gangers close through his drag loss like the hill

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Swami is also head of foundations sponsoring free schools, a clinic, orphanages, and he is trying to organize a cleanup of the river Ganges. I'm very well, thank you, sorry to keep you waiting. Welcome home. Thank you very much indeed. Everything is

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Alternative spiritual practises obviously have inmmance a peer to the many western visitors who come here. Has was clearly evident in downtown rishcash. I found it to be last and break. Lovely new I step going on here...Gange astrology on palmistry c

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While Rishcash is a particular magnet for visitors from the west, where we're heading next is a major draw for Indian tourists. -Beautiful Ganges, *** is here. Meeting a friend who's guided me around India before. He suggested we meet at the statue o

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-I mean this is a land where compassion for animals is considered a major value. I mean it's a very basic value. -It's a religious code, as well. -It's a religious code, as well. And yet, because of the religion, it's become important just culturally

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Hindu's belif that to die within the confine of the city or to have gashes sgated with river here. to escape the board of circle of incorn nation, and achieve macshone or alternal libration. upper where we go, so we are going to very special place of

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From Haridwar. I followed the Ganges more than 300 miles South east to the major industry city. India's population has more than doubled in the last forty years. It's now more than 1.2 billion people in the country. The impact on the river has been a

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Is everybody here to die? Is that why people come here? We have come here for that, but we can only die here if it is written in our destiny. When did you come here? How long have you been here? It has been 18 years now. You both have been here for 1

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-Stepping into their shadow?-Yeah. It's like that. -It's 2014. India's got a space program. That's incredible. -That's India. Cremations here are public but rich events. The oldest son of the deceased's family leads the funeral rites. First, the body

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Varanasi was the most sacred place I've visited on the Ganges. There was no mistaking the power in the pull of its waters was a profoundly moving experience. The next morning, we followed the Ganges towards Patna, the state capital of Bihar. -It's ra

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