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  2. Water resources management in Egypt - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Why is Egypt worried about Ethiopia's dam on the Nile? - AOL

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    Egypt is concerned that Ethiopia is using water from the Nile to fill its giant Renaissance dam.

  4. Water conflict in the Middle East and North Africa - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Water scarcity - Wikipedia

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    These wetlands are important as the habitats of numerous creatures such as mammals, birds, fish, amphibians, and invertebrates. They also support the growing of rice and other food crops. And they provide water filtration and protection from storms and flooding. Freshwater lakes such as the Aral Sea in central Asia have also suffered. It was ...

  6. Environmental issues in Egypt - Wikipedia

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    The creation of Grand Renaissance Dam would not affect Egypt's share of Nile as it is not constructed for irrigation but rather hydroelectricity. Water may be lost from evaporation but Egypt and Sudan will benefit from the dam due to the trapped sediments that would otherwise flow downstream prolonging lives of major reservoirs in both ...

  7. Flush with federal funds, dam removal advocates seize ... - AOL

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    Removal of this privately-owned hydropower dam in western North Carolina will be a boon for rafters, kayakers and tubers by allowing the river to flow freely for nearly 80 miles (129 kilometers).

  8. Water conflict - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Qattara Depression Project - Wikipedia

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    An alternative would be a 320 kilometre (200 mile) pipeline north-east to the freshwater Nile River south of Rosetta. [3] [4] In comparison, Egypt's Suez Canal is currently 193 kilometres in length. [5] By balancing the inflow and evaporation, the lake's water level can be held constant.

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