The Blue Nile, which rises in Ethiopia, joins the White Nile in Sudan and then flows into Egypt. “No one can touch Egypt’s share of Nile water,” said Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in November last year. If the reservoir is filled over a relatively short period – in under five years – it’s calculated that water flows on the Nile through Egypt could drop by as much as 20 percent. Cairo wants a very gradual filling process which will cause less disruption to water flows, taking place over a period of between 10 and 20 years. Critics say all this is too late, with officials still reluctant to recognize the scale of the country’s water crisis.

Source: Ethiopian News December 27, 2018 09:22 UTC