Despite a flurry of criticism leveled at Morsi for failing to prevent initial construction on Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam, the Egyptian media seem to have forgotten the qualms with their own politicians and their neighbors’ over River Nile quotas.

Within five years, the Red Sea Governorate will depend entirely on desalinated sea water. Will other governorates follow suit?

Egypt sits upon the world’s largest fossil aquifer system. But can the government exploit the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System to relieve stress on the Nile and guarantee water for Egypt’s citizens?

Both the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and the Aswan High Dam (AHD) in Egypt have been part-financed by local citizens as water strengthens its case as the main underlying cause of potential conflict between the Horn of Africa neighbors. 

Even the most optimistic studies predict that Egypt will lose six billion cubic meters of water annually once the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in the Blue Nile in Ethiopia is completed. This loss will leave a million acres without sufficient irrigation, leading to arid lands and the loss of jobs, and threatens to displace millions […]

After nearly a century of conflict over the Nile’s waters, Egypt has finally found a way to live without its historical rights and coexist with its basin partners.

A dialogue with Dr. Abbas Sharaqi, head of the Natural Resources Department at the Africa Research Institute, Cairo University, on the impact of Ethiopia’s ‘Renaissance’ dam on Egypt.