{"id":6700,"date":"2019-02-14T13:43:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T08:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/?p=6700"},"modified":"2019-02-14T13:44:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T08:44:41","slug":"water-wars-egyptians-condemn-ethiopias-nile-dam-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/?p=6700","title":{"rendered":"Water Wars: Egyptians Condemn Ethiopia’s Nile Dam Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Projects on the scale of the $4.7 billion, 1.1-mile-long (1.7-kilometer-long) Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam\u00a0often encounter impassioned resistance, but few inspire the kind of dread and fury with which most Egyptians regard plans to dam the Blue Nile River.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Egypt insists Ethiopia’s hydroelectric scheme amounts to a violation of its historic rights, a breach of the 1959 colonial-era agreement that allocated almost three-fourths of the Nile waters to Egypt, and an existential threat to a country largely devoid of alternative freshwater sources.<\/p>\n

But what Egyptians regard as a nefarious plot by its historic adversary to control its water supply, Ethiopians see as an intense source of national pride and a symbol of their country’s renewal after the\u00a0debilitating famines\u00a0of the 1980s and ’90s.<\/p>\n

“People are enthusiastic. They’re excited, because no leader has tried such a project in Ethiopia’s history,” said Bitania Tadesse, a recent university graduate from the capital, Addis Ababa. “It’s a big deal that is going to be beneficial to future generations.”<\/p>\n

Intense Water Politics<\/h2>\n

Ethiopia maintains that Egypt and Sudan downstream have no reason to be fearful. The government says it’s merely redressing the inequalities of previous water-sharing arrangements, which had left the nine upstream countries largely bereft of access to the Nile.<\/p>\n

Source:\u00a0https:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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