More than 4000 miles in length, the longest river in the world, the Nile River, located in Northern Africa, winds through eight countries on its was to empty into the Mediterranean Sea (Tignor, 2010). Yet, according to Tignor, (2010) though it flows through these countries - Rwanda, Tanzania, Egypt, Ethiopia, Burundi, Kenya, Sudan, and Uganda - and is larger than the mighty Amazon River, it carries far less water, transporting only a mere 2% of the water volume of the Amazon.