Nile| Egypt says: Ethiopia's dam will wait for the Experts' Panel

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• Dear all peace loving Egyptians,
  The Ethiopian government and people UNDERSTAND your genuine concerns. TRUST US.. We have neither an intention nor an agenda that puts your life in danger. We are not constructing a dam whose objective decreases the natural amount of water flow of the Nile. You don't have to be a scientist to understand this fact- check the simple logic and technique behind Hydro-Electric Power (HEP) generation. We ONLY NEED THE WATER'S KINETIC ENERGY TO ROTATE THE TURBINES to produce mechanical energy which afterwards will be converted into electric power that eventually produces HEP. The diverted water afterwards joins the normal course of the river and continues its flow. It's not like we're gonna use the water as a fuel to produce energy.

  Therefore, there is no need to panic... we've already been caring for the great Egyptian people for thousands of years. There's no single reason why we should irresponsibly construct a dam now that puts Egyptian (and Sudanese) lives at risk when we can actually do it without causing any trouble to millions of livelihoods of the same.

  May God bless both Egyptians and Ethiopians... people of great civilization !

• Dear Ethiopians
  You have full right to get benefit from your resources.We in Egypt ,we don’t like the idea of war with ethiopia
  You want the dam for elecricity ,to get rid of poverty.these are noble causes.But the dam has a real dangers on us.
  for example
  we in egypt:-
  1-in Egypt our population is 84,314,326 people according to wiki
  and our water consumption is 64 billion cubic meter whit 55 billion from Nile….that means average per capita water use in Egypt is 700 cubic meters [per year]
  while below 1000 cubic meters means water poverty

  2-in Ethiopia population is 91,195,675
  and your average per capita water use is 1,355 cubic meter and most of it not from the river

  97.5% of Egypt is desert …nothing more
  every shortage of 4 billion of cubic meter of water consumption means ….loss of 70 million m of agricultural lands…..2 million families in streets…loss of food production by 5 billion dollar

  if you started to fill the dam which its capacity is 63,000,000,000 m3 in 6 years as your government said
  we will loss 19 billion cubic meter of Nile water

  and this means DISASTER .this means KILLING innocent people for electricity
  which only the foreign companies & bankers that will profit from it by dept that they paid for your governement and us Ethiopians & Egyptians would benefit nothing….

  I am sure if your government were honest with you dear Good Ethiopian people ,you wouldn’t approve that

  war would solve nothing and also disrespect to others life

  i have a dream that both nations become good friends and allies against poverty and corruption
  and this can become true by good listenning to each other

  sorry for my bad english
  P.S. these numbers are real ….if you don’t believe it .try to search it

  • sir so far we r poor we cannot feed ourselves because of ur country's historic enemity on us for over 1500year's by distablizing us, yes we tried to leave nile for u and focus on others but ur leaders were cruel and mocking on us by influencing any development projects in our country. Now onwards z red line was crossed already, we will build our resources otherwise we will confront whatever comes, If ur country try to attack our dam we will attack z aswan or we just pour out z nuclear slugs or z expired pesticides in our stocks to z nile, we don't have any choice. then u will buy bottled waters from elsewhere or desalinize z redsea.

  • Have you also done some research about Egyptian foreign policy to Ethiopia, the number of insurgencies Cairo harbor and fund? Are you aware of the many evil policies Egypt have against Ethiopia?

    • I always read your ministers and intellectuals comments and views about “Egypt’s share of water” and “Historical right” and I wonder who gave you this share of water and historical right which we Ethiopians didn’t know?
      Do you have any evidence and concrete justification for this? No one afraid to go to war with you even if this is not our choice.
      This is 21st century and you better think accordingly.
      If we can’t use our resource you can’t use it too.
      Please come to your mind and think twice. Don’t be greedy we can share the resource not by force but by negotiation. Tell the truth to your people and politicians .the resource is on our hand and we will never ask for permission to use our resource. If we work for the benefit of all riparian countries we all will benefit .
      I personally do not want Egypt to get starved because of shortage of water but this cannot happen by threatening us or by any force but by peace and mutual trust.
      I will advice you open your eyes and see mutual benefits for both people other than being greedy in thoughts and action.
      Please please don't tell us to stop building our dam because we will never and ever stop it.

  • pls think just as 21th...............we will constract the dam

• The outcome of the panel will not definitely decide whether the dam should be built or not.

• The outcome of the research will have no effect on the project .