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Egypt is concerned that Ethiopia is using water from the Nile to fill its giant Renaissance dam. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: ...
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.
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.
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.
RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Faced with public outrage after its second mining dam collapse in four years killed at least 240 people in Brazil, Vale SA misrepresented ...
Unrelenting rounds of heavy rain have turned deadly in northeastern Brazil, killing 21 people and leaving hundreds more injured. The devastating floods have left entire cities and towns completely ...
The construction of dams in the national territory has repeatedly led to serious violations of human rights, the consequences of which end up accentuating serious social inequalities in Brazil, situations of misery, social disruption (family and individual) of the populations affected by the construction of dams. The negative consequences ...
The fish, along with many other endemic species of flora and fauna are threatened by the Tapajós hydroelectric complex dams that are planned on the river. [17] The largest of those projects is the São Luiz do Tapajós Dam , whose environmental licensing process has been suspended – not yet cancelled – by IBAMA due to its expected impacts ...