In the 19th century European explorers like David Livingstone and John Hanning Speke came here searching for the source of the Nile.

19世纪，欧洲探险家大卫·利文斯敦和约翰·汉宁等人来到这里寻找尼罗河的源头。

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The upstream states, including Ethiopia, source of the Blue Nile, which merges with the White Nile at Khartoum, and supplies 86% of the river's eventual flow, were allocated nothing.

河流上流国家，包括在蓝尼罗河源头的埃塞俄比亚却没有获得任何水资源。而蓝尼罗河，这支在喀土穆与白尼罗河汇合的河流，却提供了尼罗河86%的最终流量。

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In the Nile basin itself, you're looking at 1,660bcm of annual rainfall. And then from all this, you have Egypt taking 55.5bcm a year from the Nile, our only source of fresh water.

尼罗河盆地每年的降水量是1万6千6百亿方，埃及每年从尼罗河抽取555亿方，这是我们唯一的淡水源。

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which is that... he talks about trying to find the source of the Nile River in Egypt.

就是，他谈到了试图在埃及寻找尼罗河的源头。

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The most important is a painting by John Phillips, which Mr Ondaatje found in a private Australian collection, of Sir Richard Burton in Afghan dress before his ill-fated journey to find the source of the Nile.

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It is in Gondar that castles built in the 7th century overlook Lake Tana , the source of the Blue Nile .

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Ethiopia claims to be the source of about 85% of the total water in the Nile.

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