Mubarak says Israel will not get Nile water

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has asserted that delivering the water of the Nile to Israel is "impossible," noting that there are international agreements which ban giving the waters of the Nile to any other side.

"Those who talk about reaching the waters of the Nile must study these agreements first," Mubarak commented.

He added in a statement to the Egyptian magazine "October" in its most recent issue that the impossibility of delivering the water of the Nile to Israel, in addition to the aforesaid reasons, was also because the amount of water arriving in Egypt will not be enough to meet the requirements of the Egyptian people in the next century, especially with the expansion of cultivated lands.