Later on, they will draft the report that will be submitted to South Africa, the current AU chair. Egypt has firmly rejected Ethiopia’s suggestion on postponing reaching a settlement on the points of contention in the GERD negotiations, Sebaei said. The dam is located on the Blue Nile with a capacity of 74 billion cubic meters, and is expected to generate up to 6,000 megawatts of power. Since May 2011, Cairo has voiced its concern over how the dam can reduce the country’s annual shares of 55.5 billion cubic meters of Nile water. Egypt’s average water per-capita is expected to drop from 663 cubic meters per year to 582 cubic meters by 2025, according to the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) in 2014.

Source: Egypt Today July 11, 2020 09:45 UTC