the dam promises to transform Ethiopia's energy landscape. However, its construction has been mired in controversy, raising geopolitical tensions in the Nile River basin. The GERD project ...

For instance, Satellite data and hydrological models were used to monitor the water quality of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) reservoir and the Nile River Basin. The Grand Ethiopian ...

Researchers propose a framework for equitable sharing of the Nile's water and hydropower resources during extended drought periods. A new study proposes a science-based policy for operating the Nile ...

The dam spans the Nile’s mightiest tributary ... put it in simpler terms: “The Nile River must not be monopolized by one state. For Egypt, the Nile water is an existential matter.” ...

is a gravity dam on the Blue Nile River. The dam is in Guba, in the Benishangul-Gumuz Region of Ethiopia, about 9 miles east of the border with Sudan. Constructed between 2011 and 2023 ...

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Gerd) was built on the Blue Nile and is Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam. Once completed, the dam aims to power millions of homes, increase economic growth ...

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As Ethiopia vows to fill the GERD for a second time this July, Egypt is no longer mincing its words when it comes to actions it is willing to take to mitigate any loss of access to the Nile. In this ...

which stretches across the Nile 600 miles south of Cairo. The dam has effectively stopped the river's annual floods by trapping its waters in a reservoir that is slowly released during the dry season.

Egypt has long been at loggerheads with Ethiopia over the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a multimillion-dollar ...