The Egyptian ministers presented the pathway of negotiations over the past decade since Ethiopia began building the dam without consultations with the downstream countries, Egypt and Sudan. The capacity of the dam's reservoir is 74 billion cubic meters, aimed to generate 6,000 megawatts by installing 16 turbines. The first filling was carried out in 2020 with 4.9 billion cubic meters. Currently, Ethiopia intends to do the second filling in July with at least 13 billion cubic meters. It is noted that the water shares of Egypt and Ethiopia are 55.5 billion cubic meters, and 18.5 billion cubic meters, respectively.

Source: Egypt Today May 06, 2021 08:03 UTC