Ethiopia aims to lift itself out of poverty by damming the Blue Nile

THE BLUE NILE BEGINS IN ETHIOPIA’S Lake Tana and winds its way through a series of dramatic waterfalls and steep gorges carved into the country’s highlands. Finally it descends to the plains of Sudan, joining the White Nile in Khartoum to create the mighty river that feeds a third country, Egypt. It is the seasonal rainfall of Ethiopia’s highlands