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Water Scarcity: The Most Severe Threat Facing MENA
March 15th, 2020
Via The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, commentary on the water scarcity crisis in the Middle East/North Africa region: Water scarcity is one of the most pressing issues facing the international community today and has gained widespread attention recently due to the rise in global temperatures and the increase in water consumption in a number […]
Read more »250 million People Rely On The Nile For Water That May Not exist By 2080
March 7th, 2020
Via Quartz, an article on the Nile’s parched future: The Nile river snakes through 11 countries, providing hundreds of millions of people with the majority of their water supply. For many, it is their only water source. Egypt, for one, gets about 85% of its water from the river—and experts expect the country to face a nationwide freshwater shortage by […]
Read more »GERD-lock: Ethiopia Asks U.S. to Postpone Final Talks on Blue Nile Dam
February 28th, 2020
Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on Ethiopia’s request to postpone negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: Ethiopia has asked the United States to postpone what was expected to be the final round of talks on the giant Blue Nile hydropower dam, it said on Wednesday, delaying the potential resolution of a […]
Read more »Damming the White Nile
February 18th, 2020
Via Future Directions International, an article on the potential dam being considered on Uganda’s White Nile river: According to a Reuters report, a Chinese hydropower developer has applied to build the US$1.4 billion ($2.1 billion) Ayago hydropower plant between Lakes Kyoga and Albert on the White Nile in Uganda. Sinohydro, another Chinese construction company, is expected […]
Read more »The Nile River Dispute From Ethiopia’s Perspective
February 15th, 2020
Via Geopolitical Futures, a look at the Nile River dispute from Ethiopia’s perspective: The Nile River and its tributaries have served as a lifeline for human civilization in the Nile River basin for centuries. Today, more than 300 million people from Burundi, Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda rely […]
Read more »Egypt Has Controlled the Nile For Thousands Of Years, But A New Dam Threatens That
February 9th, 2020
Courtesy of The New York Times, a detailed look at how Ethiopia is staking its hopes on its $4.5 billion hydroelectric dam which Egypt fears it will cut into its water supplies: The Egyptian farmer stood in his dust-blown field, lamenting his fortune. A few years ago, wheat and tomato-filled greenhouses carpeted the land. Now the […]
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