{"id":7795,"date":"2020-01-28T08:54:36","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T05:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7795"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:49","slug":"nile-basin-states-must-build-a-flexible-treaty-heres-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/01\/28\/nile-basin-states-must-build-a-flexible-treaty-heres-how\/","title":{"rendered":"Nile Basin States Must Build A Flexible Treaty. Here\u2019s How"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Mahemud Tekuya<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-51133364\">a step closer<\/a>&nbsp;to resolving their disputes over the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. The dam \u2013 a huge project on one of the River Nile\u2019s main tributaries, the Blue Nile in Ethiopia \u2013 is designed to generate 6,000 megawatts of electricity. Its reservoir can hold more than 70 billion cubic metres of water. That\u2019s nearly equal to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/3\/an530e\/an530e.pdf\">half of<\/a>&nbsp;the Nile\u2019s annual flow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Filling the immense reservoir will diminish the flow of the Nile water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tensions have been particularly acute between Egypt and Ethiopia because&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.co.ke\/books?id=3Ns7DQAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA80&amp;lpg=PA80&amp;dq=More+than+80%25+of+the+water+reaching+Egypt+comes+from+the+Blue+Nile&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=gW9Oiy8Fsl&amp;sig=hkGZaSOToqULsQoD8S42kHTIlNk&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;redir_esc=y#v=onepage&amp;q=More%20than%2080%25%20of%20the%20water%20reaching%20Egypt%20comes%20from%20the%20Blue%20Nile&amp;f=false\">more than<\/a>&nbsp;80% of the water reaching Egypt comes from the Blue Nile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite decades of concerted effort,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/digitalrepository.unm.edu\/nrj\/vol59\/iss2\/13\/\">no comprehensive deal<\/a>\u00a0between all\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nileis.nilebasin.org\/system\/files\/Nile%20SoB%20Report%20Chpater%202%20-%20Water%20resources.pdf\">11 countries<\/a>\u00a0that share the Nile\u2019s river basin has ever been reached. But, after rigorous discussions in the US, Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan issued\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/news\/press-releases\/sm875\">a joint statement<\/a>\u00a0that lays the framework for a final agreement. The three countries agreed that the dam would be filled in stages, and that it would only take place in the wet season. <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/nile-basin-states-must-build-a-flexible-treaty-heres-how-130467\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mahemud Tekuya Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt are&nbsp;a step closer&nbsp;to resolving their disputes over the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. The dam \u2013 a huge project&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}