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The High Dam protects Egypt from floods, stores water for year-round irrigation and produces hydropower. With a live storage capacity of 90 billion cubic the dam stores more than one and a half the average annual flow of the Nile River, thus providing a high level of regulation in the river basin compared to other regulated rivers in the world.
Egypt is concerned that Ethiopia is using water from the Nile to fill its giant Renaissance dam.
Collectively, the dams will use nearly 500 million mcm/y of the Nile’s annual flow. [3] Ethiopia is the only Nile River riparian to make a legal claim to Nile waters other than Egypt or Sudan since the Nile Waters Treaty was signed in 1959. Like in Egypt, population growth in Ethiopia has led to an increase in water consumption.
Ethiopia's move to fill the dam's reservoir could reduce Nile flows by as much as 25% and devastate Egyptian farmlands. [1]Water conflict typically refers to violence or disputes associated with access to, or control of, water resources, or the use of water or water systems as weapons or casualties of conflicts.
One example is the dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam which escalated in 2020. [ 97 ] [ 98 ] Egypt sees the dam as an existential threat, fearing that the dam will reduce the amount of water it receives from the Nile .
“When the river has problems, the people beside the river have problems,” one activist said.
A Cosmo editor booked a trip to Egypt and can't stop talking about it. Here, she reviews EF Ultimate Break's "Egypt: Sail the Nile" group travel itinerary. Here’s Why Egypt Needs to Be Number ...
In São Paulo, Brazil, a lack of sanitation infrastructure results in the pollution of the majority of its water supply and forces the city to import over 50% of its water from outside watersheds. Polluted water increases a developing country's operating costs, as lower quality water is more expensive to treat.