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One Simple Way To Avoid An African Water War
February 18th, 2016
Via SciDev, a look at one potential way to reduce tension over the Renaissance dam in East Africa: Ethiopia should lower the height of its Renaissance saddle dam to defuse the water crisis, says Nader Noureddine. The first stage of Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance dam project is fast approaching its end. At 70 metres high, the […]
Read more »Ethiopia: The Water Tower of Africa Faces Worst Drought in Decades
February 3rd, 2016
Via Future Directions International, a report on Ethiopia’s drought: Despite high economic growth of approximately ten per cent a year, Ethiopia is still highly vulnerable to food and water insecurity. Seasonal rains between June and September failed in 2015, leading to severe water shortages and widespread drought. An estimated four hundred thousand children are currently […]
Read more »Sharing The Nile
January 24th, 2016
Via The Economist, a look at how tThe largest hydroelectric project in Africa has so far produced only discord: WHEN Egyptian politicians discussed sabotaging the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in 2013, they naturally assumed it was a private meeting. But amid all the scheming, and with a big chuckle, Muhammad Morsi, then president, informed his […]
Read more »Boiling Over: Water And Security Hot Spots 2016
January 13th, 2016
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, an interesting look at 10 places where water issues could undermine civic stability: After five years of civil war, the humanitarian crisis in Syria has reached massive proportions: More than 4.6 million people have fled the country as refugees, and at least 7.6 million more are internally displaced within Syria, […]
Read more »Ethiopia Makes Progress On The Nile Dam Project
December 31st, 2015
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an updated look at the Grand Renaissance Dam project: The construction site of the Grand Renaissance Dam near the Sudanese-Ethiopia border March 31. Summary By learning how to cooperate, Ethiopia may be one step closer to realizing its dream of finishing construction on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. On Dec. 29, […]
Read more »Dam Divides Ethiopia From Its Neighbors
December 9th, 2015
Via Future Directions International, a report on how the Gibe III Dam on the Omo River has already begun providing much needed hydroelectricity to Ethiopia, but caused increased tensions among local tribes and neighbouring countries: Background The initial support of the Kenyan Government quickly changed when the environmental and social impacts of the dam project […]
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