The Blue Nile merges with the White Nile near Khartoum in Sudan.

青尼罗河与白尼罗河在苏丹喀土穆汇合。

They're worried that the grand renaissance dam will reduce their access to water further downstream on the Blue Nile.

他们担心复兴的大坝会减少他们对青尼罗河下游的取水量。

Flood water caused the Blue Nile River to swell to its highest level since records began more than a century ago.

洪水导致青尼罗河涨至一个多世纪前有记录以来的最高水位。

It is these summer floods through the Blue Nile that historically eroded enormous quantities of fertile soil from the temperate Ethiopian Highlands.

历史上，正是这些通过青尼罗河的夏季洪水侵蚀了埃塞俄比亚温带高地的大量肥沃土壤。

The Nile has no true single starting place but is fed by two primary tributary rivers — the White Nile and the Blue Nile.

尼罗河没有真正意义上的单一发源地，而是由两条主要支流——白尼罗河和青尼罗河汇聚而成。

In the future, Ethiopia may take further unilateral actions by building even more dams along the Blue Nile without consulting any of her neighbors.

今后，埃塞俄比亚可能会采取进一步的单边行动，在不与任何邻国协商的情况下，沿青尼罗河修建更多的大坝。

That's what Ethiopia's trying to do by building this vast dam across the Blue Nile.

这是埃塞俄比亚尝试通过在蓝色尼罗河上建立大水坝在做的事。

These streams became known as the blue Nile and the White Nile, and by 1618, Spanish missionaries had finally discovered the source of the blue Nile down at lake tana in the highlands of Ethiopia.

这些溪流被称为蓝尼罗河和白尼罗河，到 1618 年，西班牙传教士终于在埃塞俄比亚高地的塔纳湖发现了蓝尼罗河的源头。

Overall, throughout the entire course of an average year, the Blue Nile contributes roughly 59% of all the water that makes its way through Egypt, while the White Nile contributes the remaining 41%.

总体而言，在埃及一年的平均用水量中，青尼罗河的水量约占 59%，而白尼罗河的水量则占其余的 41%。

After the dam finished Construction in 2020, Ethiopia unilaterally decided to begin its first filling of the reservoir during the rainy monsoon season in July when water flow through the Blue Nile was the highest.

大坝于 2020 年完工后，埃塞俄比亚单方面决定在 7 月季风雨季开始首次蓄水，此时青尼罗河的水流量最大。

As the Nile flows through a lush but almost impenetrable valley named the Blue Nile Gorge it becomes clear that this is a country with a very different relationship to the one that Egypt has with the river.

尼罗河流经苍翠但人迹罕至的青尼罗河峡谷，埃塞俄比亚与尼罗河的关系显然和埃及与尼罗河的关系截然不同。

As the course of the Blue Nile slopes steeply down from the mountains of the Ethiopian Highlands, the water running down the tributary contains a lot of violent rapids that possess a very high amount of kinetic energy.

由于青尼罗河的河道从埃塞俄比亚高原的山脉陡峭地倾斜而下，因此支流中的水流包含了许多剧烈的激流，具有非常高的动能。

Which often causes Lake Tana in the northwest corner of Ethiopia to overflow and spill water into the Blue Nile that runs out of it sending a flood surge downriver clear through across Egypt and into the Mediterranean.

这常常导致埃塞俄比亚西北角的塔纳湖泛滥，从塔纳湖流出的湖水溢入青尼罗河，洪峰顺流而下，穿过埃及，直达地中海。

Standing 155 metres tall and extending almost 1, 800 metres across the Blue Nile, the main structure is being formed with over 10 million tonnes of concrete, holding back 74 cubic kilometres of water when the reservoir is full.

大坝高 155 米，长 1,800 米，横跨了青尼罗河，大坝主体使用超过一千万吨的混凝土，满载情况下能阻拦 74 立方千米的水。

Consequently, Ethiopia doesn't respect this treaty as valid and has insisted for decades that they do actually retain the right to build hydroelectric dams across the Blue Nile within their own sovereign territory to help them generate more power.

因此，埃塞俄比亚并不尊重这一条约的有效性，几十年来一直坚持认为，他们确实保留了在自己主权领土上横跨青尼罗河建造水电站大坝的权利，以帮助他们产生更多的电力。