Developing Egyptian deserts is one of the keys to increasing food supplies, creating jobs, increasing revenues from agricultural and mineral exports and generating tourist revenues.
It is equally true that population growth is consuming Egypt's (...)
Ethiopia has 12 river basins with a combined flow of 130 billion cubic metres per year. The country also sits atop vast subterranean water reserves. This huge water wealth needs to be wisely managed and used to support development.
Towards this end, (...)
Nile Basin countries — especially those at the sources of the river — are the focus of international interest for developmental and investment purposes, especially in agriculture and electricity generation projects. Foreign powers' eagerness to (...)
Historically, Sudan and Egypt together formed the Nile Valley region, as defined by the Nile tributaries from Ethiopia and the equatorial plateau that converge to form the Blue Nile and White Nile respectively, and the convergence of these two major (...)
During the ongoing crisis between Egypt and Ethiopia over the construction of the Grand Renaissance Dam, which threatens catastrophe for Egypt as we have discussed in previous articles in Al-Ahram Weekly, some have aired the idea of connecting the (...)
Ethiopia's Renaissance Dam project had long been a subject of tension between Cairo and Addis Ababa. The tensions began to flare on 2 April 2011 — shortly after Egypt's 25 January Revolution — when the latter announced that it had laid the (...)
The Egyptian people are clamouring for tough measures against Ethiopia in response to its intransigence on the question of the Renaissance Dam that threatens the security of their most important resource, the Nile. Popular frustration mounted as (...)
In a previous article on Ethiopia's Renaissance Dam I discussed a number of serious problems associated with this project. Specifically, I focussed on a number of geo-engineering issues involved in the construction of a hydraulic project of this (...)
The focus on Ethiopia's Renaissance Dam project, which has stirred widespread controversy among the Egyptian public in view of its direct detrimental impact on Egypt, may have distracted us from the question of dams and energy generation in Ethiopia (...)
Egypt has a total water supply of 68 billion cubic metres. Of this, 55.5 billion cubic metres derives from the Nile, four billion cubic metres from subterranean sources in the Delta and Western Desert, eight billion cubic metres from treated (...)