Editing Nile (section)

=== Sources ===
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[[File:Source of Nile, Spring at Jinja, Lake Victoria.jpg|thumb|Spring at Lake Victoria]]

The source of the Blue Nile is [[Lake Tana]]<ref name="Vijverberg, Sibbing, Dejen">{{Cite book |last1=Vijverberg |first1=Jacobus |chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4020-9726-3_9 |title=Lake Tana: Source of the Blue Nile, in, The Nile |last2=Sibbing |first2=Ferdinand A. |last3=Dejen |first3=Eshete |chapter=Lake Tana: Source of the Blue Nile |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-4020-9726-3 |series=Monographiae Biologicae |date=2009 |volume=89 |pages=163–192 |location=Dordrecht |doi=10.1007/978-1-4020-9726-3_9 |ref=292 |access-date=23 May 2021 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210523211656/https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4020-9726-3_9%23citeas |archive-date=23 May 2021 |via=[[Google Books]] }}</ref> in the [[Gish Abay]] region<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Haile |first1=A T |last2=Rientjes |first2=T H M |last3=Habib |first3=E |last4=Jetten |first4=V |last5=Gebremichael |first5=M |date=24 March 2011 |title=Rain event properties at the source of the Blue Nile River |url=https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/15/1023/2011/ |journal=Hydrology and Earth System Sciences |volume=15 |issue=3 |pages=1023–1034 |bibcode=2011HESS...15.1023H |doi=10.5194/hess-15-1023-2011 |access-date=23 May 2021 |doi-access=free |archive-date=23 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210523214122/https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/15/1023/2011/ |url-status=live }}</ref> in the [[Ethiopian Highlands]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Malone |first=Barry |date=9 December 2013 |title=Next on Egypt's to-do: Ethiopia and the Nile |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/12/next-egypt-do-ethiopia-nile-201312872410501805.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131209221555/http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/12/next-egypt-do-ethiopia-nile-201312872410501805.html |archive-date=9 December 2013 |work=Aljazeera }}</ref><ref name="Morbach et al.">{{Cite book |last1=Morbach |first1=M |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rEa9BAAAQBAJ&dq=Luvironza+River+source+of+Nile&pg=PA600 |chapter=Supporting the Development of Efficient and Effective River Basin Organisations in Africa: What Steps Can Be Taken to Improve Transboundary Water Cooperation Between Riparian States of the Nile? |title=Nile River Basin Ecohydrological Challenges, Climate Change and Hydropolitics |last2=Ribbe |first2=Lars |last3=Pedroso |first3=Lui |date=2014 |publisher=Springer International Publishing |isbn=9783319027203 |editor-last=Melesse |editor-first=Assefa M. |publication-date=13 February 2014 |page=600 |access-date=23 May 2021 |editor-last2=Setegn |editor-first2=Shimelis G. |editor-last3=Abtew |editor-first3=Wossenu |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210523203455/https://paste.pics/41768bbd88a96572dcba6c609e71d6ce |archive-date=23 May 2021 }}</ref>

The source of the White Nile, even after centuries of exploration, remains in dispute. The most remote source that is indisputably a source for the White Nile is of the [[Kagera River]]; however, the Kagera has multiple tributaries that are in contention for the farthest source of the White Nile. Two start in Burundi: the [[Ruvyironza River]] (also known as the Luvironza) and the [[Rurubu River]].<ref name="core.ac.uk/Aziz">{{Cite web |last=Aziz, Yehia Abdel |title=Irrigation Management Transfer: Development and Turnover to Private Water User Associations in Egypt |url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/6764832.pdf |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210523195629/https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/6764832.pdf |archive-date=23 May 2021 |access-date=23 May 2021 |website=core.ac.uk, USAID·assisted Irrigation Improvement Project. Ministry of Public Works and Water Resources (MPWWR), Cairo, Egypt }}</ref><ref name="Morbach et al." /> In addition, in 2010, an exploration party in Rwanda<ref>Described in ''[[Joanna Lumley]]'s Nile'', 7 pm to 8&nbsp;pm, [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]], 12 August 2011.</ref> went to a place described as the source of the [[Rukarara River|Rukarara]] tributary,<ref>{{Cite news |title=Journey to the source of the Nile |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/activityandadventure/734885/Journey-to-the-source-of-the-Nile.html |url-status=live |access-date=6 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120503050656/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/activityandadventure/734885/Journey-to-the-source-of-the-Nile.html |archive-date=3 May 2012 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> and by hacking a path up steep jungle-choked mountain slopes in the [[Nyungwe Forest]] found (in the [[dry season]]) an appreciable incoming surface flow for many kilometres upstream, thence finding a new source, giving the Nile a length of {{cvt|6758|km}}.{{Citation needed|date=June 2022}}