and 2012. Lake Victoria water levels Since January 2006, hydroelectric generation at Nalubaale and Kiira stations has been curtailed due to a prolonged drought and low level of water in Lake Victoria. The hydrology of Lake Victoria has unusual features. In 2006 there was a release of secret documents from 1956 in Britain that indicated the British had considered using this dam to reduce the water in the Nile in an effort to remove Egyptian President Nasser. The plan was not carried out because it would have seasonally flooded land in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, reduced flows to a trickle in Sudan and the effect of shutting off the White Nile even to coincide with the seasonal lull in the Blue Nile would not have affected Egypt for at least 16 months. Veto power over construction projects on the Nile River and its tributaries was granted to Egypt by the Anglo-Egyptian treaty of 1929, reinforced by the bilateral agreement between Egypt and Sudan signed in 1959. In 1959 upriver Nile states such as Uganda denounced this treaty purportedly claiming virtually all of the waters of the Nile to themselves and leaving none to the upriver states. The countries along the White Nile excluding Sudan seek to create a unified international legal framework for the basin and for the time being respect keeping lake levels virtually unaltered so as not to upset their own eco-systems and established patterns of crop production and livestock raising. See also Energy in Uganda Bujagali Power Station List of hydropower stations in Africa List of power stations in Uganda References External links Hatch Acres description of the Owen Falls Extension project. Archived from the original on 2006-05-10. New Scientist article Indicating That Uganda Was Exceeding Agreed Curve For Water Withdrawal From Lake Victoria Digital Photograph copy of the document covering the Opening Ceremony on April 29, 1954 Energy infrastructure completed in 1954 Energy infrastructure completed in 2001 Dams completed in 1954 Lake Victoria Buikwe District Jinja District Hydroelectric power stations in Uganda Dams in the Nile basin Jinja, Uganda