The Nile River during sunset in Luxor, Egypt. EPA-EFE/Khaled Elfiqi November 4, 2018 Agreements that favour Egypt’s rights to Nile waters are an anachronism Salam Abdulqadir Abdulrahman, University of Human Development, Iraq The threat to use force to defend Egypt’s right to water from the Nile has been a common theme through successive governments.