TFDD Query Results

Query Results for Nile Basin	New map query
The tables below contain data for the entire basin of interest. On the map, each basin is divided into "basin-country" polygons, with each polygon being represented by a single row in the tables below. A highlighted row indicates the specific basin-country polygon that you clicked on the map.

Climate

This table contains data for all of the Climate Zone Subtypes found within:
Basin: Nile
Country:

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Climate Zone Type Code	Climate Zone Type	Climate Zone Subtype Code	Climate Zone Subtype	Area of Subtype in Country (sq km)	Percent of Country in Subtype

Citations:

FAO-SDRN Agrometeorology Group (1997). FAO's Environment and Natural Resources Service (SDRN) global climate maps series, United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization SDRN Agrometeorology Group. http://www.fao.org/sd/eidirect/CLIMATE/EIsp0001.htm

Dams

Basin Name	Country	Code	Area (sq km)	Number of Dams	Dam Density (dams/sq km)
Nile	Burundi	NILE_BDI	12,853	0	0
Nile	Central African Republic	NILE_CAF	1,028	0	0
Nile	Egypt	NILE_EGY	276,572	2	0.000007
Nile	Eritrea	NILE_ERI	3,561	0	0
Nile	Ethiopia	NILE_ETH	354,887	1	0.000003
Nile	Kenya	NILE_KEN	50,690	0	0
Nile	Sudan	NILE_SDN	1,921,857	0	0
Nile	Rwanda	NILE_RWA	20,628	0	0
Nile	Tanzania, United Republic of	NILE_TZA	119,397	0	0
Nile	Uganda	NILE_UGA	237,524	1	0.000004
Nile	Congo, Democratic Republic of (Kinshasa)	NILE_ZAR	21,103	0	0

Basin-wide:

3,020,100

0.000001

Citations:

World Water Development Report II. Data Download page at http://wwdrii.sr.unh.edu/download.html

ICOLD. 1984, 1988. World Register of Dams. 1984 full edition and 1988 updating. International Commission on Large Dams, Paris.

International Water Power and Dam Construction. 1994. Handbook. Reed Business Publishing. Sutton, Surrey, U.K. 224 p.

International Water Power and Dam Construction. 1989. The World's Major Dams and Hydro Plants. Global map. Reed Business Publishing, Sutton, Surrey.

Vörösmarty, C. J., K. P. Sharma, B. M. Fekete, A. H. Copeland, J. Holden, J. Marble and J. A. Lough. The Storage and aging of continental runoff in large reservoir systems of the world, AMBIO, 26 (4): 210-219.

Vörösmarty, C.J., M. Meybeck, B. Fekete, K. Sharma, P. Green, and J. Syvitski. 2003. Anthropogenic sediment retention: Major global-scale impact from the population of registered impoundments. Global and Planetary Change 39: 169-190.

Discharge

Basin Name	Country	Code	Area (sq km)	Discharge (cubic km/yr)
Nile	Burundi	NILE_BDI	12,853	20
Nile	Central African Republic	NILE_CAF	1,028	0
Nile	Egypt	NILE_EGY	276,572	0
Nile	Eritrea	NILE_ERI	3,561	0
Nile	Ethiopia	NILE_ETH	354,887	15,000
Nile	Kenya	NILE_KEN	50,690	400
Nile	Sudan	NILE_SDN	1,921,857	71,000
Nile	Rwanda	NILE_RWA	20,628	30
Nile	Tanzania, United Republic of	NILE_TZA	119,397	700
Nile	Uganda	NILE_UGA	237,524	2,000
Nile	Congo, Democratic Republic of (Kinshasa)	NILE_ZAR	21,103	2

Basin-wide:

3,020,100

89,152

Citations:

Discharge calculated by TFDD staff using data from:

Fekete, B., C.J. Vorosmarty, and W. Grabs (2000). UNH/GRDC Composite Runoff Fields V 1.0. Available at http://www.grdc.sr.unh.edu

Irrigation

Basin Name	Country	Code	Area (sq km)	Irrigated Area (sq km)	Percent Irrigated
Nile	Burundi	NILE_BDI	12,853	100	0.78
Nile	Central African Republic	NILE_CAF	1,028	0	0.00
Nile	Egypt	NILE_EGY	276,572	132,800	48.02
Nile	Eritrea	NILE_ERI	3,561	0	0.00
Nile	Ethiopia	NILE_ETH	354,887	17,700	4.99
Nile	Kenya	NILE_KEN	50,690	0	0.00
Nile	Sudan	NILE_SDN	1,921,857	499,700	26.00
Nile	Rwanda	NILE_RWA	20,628	400	1.94
Nile	Tanzania, United Republic of	NILE_TZA	119,397	0	0.00
Nile	Uganda	NILE_UGA	237,524	2,400	1.01
Nile	Congo, Democratic Republic of (Kinshasa)	NILE_ZAR	21,103	0	0.00

Basin-wide:

3,020,100

653,100

21.63

Citations:

Döll, P., Siebert, S.(1999): A digital global map of irrigated areas. Kassel World Water Series 1, Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, Germany, 23 pp + Appendix. Available at http://wwdrii.sr.unh.edu/download.html

Landcover

This table contains data for all of the Landcover Types found within:
Basin: Nile
Country:

Landcover Type	Area of Landcover Type in Country (sq km)	Percent of Country in Landcover Type
No Landcover data are available for this subbasin

Citations:

USGS-EROS Global 1km Grid GLOBAL LAND COVER CHARACTERISTICS DATA BASE (AVHRR 1km data from April 1992-March 1993). Available at http://edc2.usgs.gov/1KM

Population

Basin Name	Country	Code	Area (sq km)	Population	Population Density (persons/sq km)
Nile	Burundi	NILE_BDI	12,853	4,882,000	379.83
Nile	Central African Republic	NILE_CAF	1,028	660	0.64
Nile	Egypt	NILE_EGY	276,572	50,998,000	184.39
Nile	Eritrea	NILE_ERI	3,561	205,700	57.76
Nile	Ethiopia	NILE_ETH	354,887	29,558,000	83.29
Nile	Kenya	NILE_KEN	50,690	14,615,000	288.32
Nile	Sudan	NILE_SDN	1,921,857	34,328,000	17.86
Nile	Rwanda	NILE_RWA	20,628	8,173,000	396.21
Nile	Tanzania, United Republic of	NILE_TZA	119,397	8,240,000	69.01
Nile	Uganda	NILE_UGA	237,524	30,281,000	127.49
Nile	Congo, Democratic Republic of (Kinshasa)	NILE_ZAR	21,103	2,798,000	132.59

Basin-wide:

3,020,100

184,079,360

60.95

Citations:

Oak Ridge National Labrotory (2008). LANDSCAN 2007 Global Population Dataset. Available at http://www.ornl.gov/sci/landscan

Projects

Basin Name	Country	Code	Area (sq km)	Number of Projects
Nile	Burundi	NILE_BDI	12,853	6
Nile	Central African Republic	NILE_CAF	1,028	4
Nile	Egypt	NILE_EGY	276,572	4
Nile	Eritrea	NILE_ERI	3,561	5
Nile	Ethiopia	NILE_ETH	354,887	6
Nile	Kenya	NILE_KEN	50,690	8
Nile	Sudan	NILE_SDN	1,921,857	6
Nile	Rwanda	NILE_RWA	20,628	6
Nile	Tanzania, United Republic of	NILE_TZA	119,397	8
Nile	Uganda	NILE_UGA	237,524	8
Nile	Congo, Democratic Republic of (Kinshasa)	NILE_ZAR	21,103	4

Basin-wide:

3,020,100

Citations:

Values calculated by TFDD staff.

RBOs

Basin Name	Country	Code	Area (sq km)	Number of RBOs
Nile	Burundi	NILE_BDI	12,853	3
Nile	Central African Republic	NILE_CAF	1,028	2
Nile	Egypt	NILE_EGY	276,572	3
Nile	Eritrea	NILE_ERI	3,561	2
Nile	Ethiopia	NILE_ETH	354,887	2
Nile	Kenya	NILE_KEN	50,690	4
Nile	Sudan	NILE_SDN	1,921,857	5
Nile	Rwanda	NILE_RWA	20,628	3
Nile	Tanzania, United Republic of	NILE_TZA	119,397	5
Nile	Uganda	NILE_UGA	237,524	5
Nile	Congo, Democratic Republic of (Kinshasa)	NILE_ZAR	21,103	2

Basin-wide:

3,020,100

Citations:

Values calculated by TFDD staff.

Runoff

Basin Name	Country	Code	Area (sq km)	Runoff (mm/yr)
Nile	Burundi	NILE_BDI	12,853	1,168
Nile	Central African Republic	NILE_CAF	1,028	0
Nile	Egypt	NILE_EGY	276,572	0
Nile	Eritrea	NILE_ERI	3,561	0
Nile	Ethiopia	NILE_ETH	354,887	42,829
Nile	Kenya	NILE_KEN	50,690	7,552
Nile	Sudan	NILE_SDN	1,921,857	37,150
Nile	Rwanda	NILE_RWA	20,628	1,311
Nile	Tanzania, United Republic of	NILE_TZA	119,397	5,753
Nile	Uganda	NILE_UGA	237,524	6,703
Nile	Congo, Democratic Republic of (Kinshasa)	NILE_ZAR	21,103	83

Basin-wide:

3,020,100

102,549

Citations:

Fekete, B.,C.J. Vorosmarty , and W. Grabs (2000). UNH/GRDC Composite Runoff Fields V 1.0. Available at http://www.grdc.sr.unh.edu

Tenders

Basin Name	Country	Code	Area (sq km)	Number of Tenders
Nile	Burundi	NILE_BDI	12,853	0
Nile	Central African Republic	NILE_CAF	1,028	0
Nile	Egypt	NILE_EGY	276,572	0
Nile	Eritrea	NILE_ERI	3,561	0
Nile	Ethiopia	NILE_ETH	354,887	1
Nile	Kenya	NILE_KEN	50,690	1
Nile	Sudan	NILE_SDN	1,921,857	1
Nile	Rwanda	NILE_RWA	20,628	0
Nile	Tanzania, United Republic of	NILE_TZA	119,397	0
Nile	Uganda	NILE_UGA	237,524	1
Nile	Congo, Democratic Republic of (Kinshasa)	NILE_ZAR	21,103	0

Basin-wide:

3,020,100

Citations:

Values calculated by TFDD staff.

Treaties

Basin Name	Country	Code	Area (sq km)	Number of Treaties
Nile	Burundi	NILE_BDI	12,853	3
Nile	Central African Republic	NILE_CAF	1,028	0
Nile	Egypt	NILE_EGY	276,572	8
Nile	Eritrea	NILE_ERI	3,561	0
Nile	Ethiopia	NILE_ETH	354,887	3
Nile	Kenya	NILE_KEN	50,690	1
Nile	Sudan	NILE_SDN	1,921,857	1
Nile	Rwanda	NILE_RWA	20,628	3
Nile	Tanzania, United Republic of	NILE_TZA	119,397	4
Nile	Uganda	NILE_UGA	237,524	5
Nile	Congo, Democratic Republic of (Kinshasa)	NILE_ZAR	21,103	0

Basin-wide:

3,020,100

Citations:

Values calculated by TFDD staff.

Water Stress

Basin Name	Country	Code	Area (sq km)	Water Stress (cubic m/person/yr)
Nile	Burundi	NILE_BDI	12,853	3
Nile	Central African Republic	NILE_CAF	1,028	0
Nile	Egypt	NILE_EGY	276,572	0
Nile	Eritrea	NILE_ERI	3,561	0
Nile	Ethiopia	NILE_ETH	354,887	500
Nile	Kenya	NILE_KEN	50,690	30
Nile	Sudan	NILE_SDN	1,921,857	2,000
Nile	Rwanda	NILE_RWA	20,628	3
Nile	Tanzania, United Republic of	NILE_TZA	119,397	80
Nile	Uganda	NILE_UGA	237,524	50
Nile	Congo, Democratic Republic of (Kinshasa)	NILE_ZAR	21,103	1

Citations:

Runoff-Fekete, B.,C.J. Vorosmarty , and W. Grabs (2000). UNH/GRDC Composite Runoff Fields V 1.0. Available at http://www.grdc.sr.unh.edu

Oak Ridge National Labrotory (2008). LANDSCAN 2007 Global Population Dataset. Available at http://www.ornl.gov/sci/landscan

Discharge calculated by TFDD staff.

Basin delineation: Wolf, A.T., Natharius, J.A., et al. (1999)
Data taken from global datasets and are for comparative purposes only.
Data are not accurate for individual basins less than 25,000 sq. km.