That prospect induces dread in Egypt, where the dam is seen as the most ... percent of Egyptians live along the Nile or in its teeming delta, and the river provides nearly all of their water.

Dam construction on international rivers often causes disputes over the downstream impact. But the Nile is different: few nations rely so completely on a single river as much as Egypt does.

This photo shows the dam at the end of the 2019 rainy season The long-running dispute between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia over a massive hydroelectric dam being built on the River Nile shows no sign ...

But Egypt and Sudan are worried that the dam will curtail their share of the Nile’s waters as global warming and less rainfall also threaten to lower the river's level. The Nile provides nearly ...

one of the two tributaries of the River Nile. Sudan and Egypt insist an agreement on how Ethiopia will operate the new dam should be reached before the reservoir is filled. The countries have been ...

Egypt relies on the Nile River for 86 percent of its water, and has said the construction of the dam is a security concern. Ethiopia's parliament ratified a controversial treaty last week ensuring ...

But to Egypt, the dam threatens one of its most precious resources. Most of Egypt’s 102 million people live in the narrow Nile valley, along the river, and depend on it for everything from ...

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, a massive hydropower plant on the River Nile that neighbors Sudan and Egypt, as the dam started to produce electricity, Feb. 19, 2022, in Benishangul-Gumuz ...

A dispute over the Nile, the world’s longest river ... who depend on its water. Egypt is objecting to efforts by Ethiopia to start operating a $4.8 billion dam on a major tributary of the ...

Ethiopia’s decision to construct a dam along the Nile has sparked a regional conflict amongst the nations along the Nile, most significantly, Egypt. The Egyptians have long held a dominant position ...

The Nile River discord stems from the 1929 and 1959 treaties ... Then in 2011, Ethiopia started building the Millennium Dam, now called the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), leveraging Egypt’s ...