Africa’s $5BN Megadam Will Block the Nile

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Now when someone asks me how big London is I can say it’s roughly the same size of the reservoir behind the grand Ethiopian renaissance dam, handy.

"So large it has its own classification." I can't be the only person who expected them to call it a "God-dam." It was a huge, approximately London-size letdown when they just called it a "mega-dam."

Next level the nile war loading....

The same happen to mekong river,got dry out in the dry season.massive china dam blocked 50% the water flow down

As an African viewer, it's really cool to see you cover this. I was in Addis, the capital in 2021, spent a day exploring it on their new metro system and was blown away by the massive infrastructure developments in the city.

I hope this project goes well and all parties can come to agreement. It would be terrible to see such an impressively scaled infrastructure project lead to conflict.

Massive Tree planting needs to be undertaking in the Nile basin region to avert catastrophe should a drought hit.

As far as I know it, Egypt and Sudan made a deal and split all the water rights between themselves, without even considering Ethiopia and their needs. They are getting what they deserved.

Would have been interesting to hear if there are any ecological consequences to such an enormous dam on one of the world's most important rivers.

So not the dam, but the reservoir is the “size of London”.

There are already several dams along the Nile the rate of fill is the primary contention of those downstream. Egypt has threatened to “remove” the obstacle to river flow if their water supply is disrupted……

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam GERD or TaIHiGe Amharic: ታላቁ የኢትዮጵያ ሕዳሴ ግድብ romanized: Tālāqu ye-Ītyōppyā Hidāsē Gidib Tigrinya: ግድብ ሕዳሰ ኢትዮጵያ Oromo: Hidha Haaromsaa Guddicha Itoophiyaa formerly known as the Millennium Dam and sometimes referred to as the Hidase Dam Amharic: ሕዳሴ ግድብ romanized: Hidāsē Gidib Oromo: Hidha Hidāsē It is a gravity dam on the Blue Nile River in Ethiopia - under construction since 2011. The dam is in the Benishangul-Gumuz Region of Ethiopia, about 45 km (28 mi) east of the border with Sudan.

When you revisit this at it's completion, I'd wager It'll look more like a fortress, festooned with Surface to Air missile batteries and guard towers.

As a half Egyptian half Ethiopian person the conflict is quite intense. Hope it can all be resolved in a peaceful manner.

I hope africa can flourish economically soon

If this dam does what it COULD do for the people of Ethiopia, and thus that entire region of Africa, it WILL be a miracle. I hope they can figure out how to do this peacefully with Egypt.

As an Egyptian and seeing how badly we pollute and destroy the nile, only slightly conflicted

Quick correction on your map. The Blue Nile starts in Ethiopia and carries its waters into the Nile River proper at Khartoum by joining another tributary, the White Nile.

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