Mahmoud Essmat, Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy, accompanied by members of the House of Representatives’ Energy and Environment Committee, headed by Representative Talaat El-Sweidy, ...

On Dec. 9, 1960, construction of the Aswan High Dam began in Egypt. It would be the first time flooding on the Nile would be controlled. The first blast, delivered by President Gamal Abdel Nasser ...

Egypt is celebrating today the 65th anniversary of the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser laying the cornerstone for the High Dam on January 9, 1960. Dr. Hani Sewilam, Minister of Water Resources and ...

Despite measures taken to contain its impacts, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam still poses a significant danger to Egypt.

Perched high above the river whose harnessing ... Wouldn’t industry get priority over poor people? What if Egypt sabotaged the dam? Visible from the village’s edge, the river glistened in ...

Once again the Renaissance Dam occupies the forefront in the water issues and Egypt’s foreign relations after the conclusion of the Egyptian-Sudanese-Ethiopian negotiations in Khartoum without ...

It is feared the dam could decimate Egyptian agriculture ... But for example, the Nile Basin countries produce huge amounts of high-quality coffee - Egypt imports coffee for well over $95.5m ...

not accounting for the current storage level in the High Aswan Dam reservoir (b) inappropriately using a mass-balance approach that does not account for the Nile's hydrology or how water is managed in ...

The conflict between Ethiopia and Egypt over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance ... without coordination with the Egyptian High Dam, is a precedent that has not occurred before, and requires a ...

To support sustainable farmers, Nazeerah partners with family farmers who enhance the land’s biodiversity by farming cotton ...

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