Row over Africa’s largest dam in danger of escalating, warn scientists (original) (raw)
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- 15 July 2020
- Update 22 July 2020
Ethiopia wants to start filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam this summer. Egypt calls it an ‘existential threat’.
- Antoaneta Roussi
Researchers are warning that Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan need to move faster to resolve a long-running dispute over the building of Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam.
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Nature 583, 501-502 (2020)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02124-8
Updates & Corrections
- Update 22 July 2020: This story was updated after reports emerged that rising waters in the dam’s reservoir were due to rain water, and not due to Ethiopia filling the dam, as first reported.