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2013-05-31 Africa North

Ethiopia dam is 'declaration of war': Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya

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Posted by Fred 2013-05-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
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#1 See also TOPIX > [Tigrai Online] RETIRED COMMANDER OF EGYPTIAN FORCES GENERAL ALI BILAL SAID IT IS IMPOSSIBLE [for Egypt] TO STRIKE [seriously] THE ETHIOPIAN RENAISSANCE DAM, as due to the myriad multi-state interests involved in its origional planning + contruction, includ both the US + China, etal.

* Also from SAME > ETHIOPIA DIVERTS BLUE NILE FOR CONSTRUCTION OF ETHIOPIAN RENAISSANCE DAM.

At least multimateral Diplomacy is still in effect as per China's Three Gorges + Mekong Region, + China-vs-India-vs-Pakistan, etc. in West-South Asia.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-05-31 01:16|| 2013-05-31 01:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Question; say a dam gets built. Water is gathered/held up temporarily to create some force to drive turbines (water rises in a holding reservoir). When then water has passed the turbines, where does it go? I doesn't disappear. Gravity will pull it along, probably into its old channels. I can't see them creating new river channels to preclude the water from reaching Egypt. So, how does it reduce Egypt's water supply? The water isn't consumed, and its potential energy is the same at that point in the river as it was before the dam.

Plus this; if Egypt needs 21B mm more water in the future than the Blue Nile can supply, where do they plan to get it?

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2013-05-31 06:56|| 2013-05-31 06:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Obvious solution to Egypt's water shortages is to collect output from pissed egyptians.

Posted by JFM 2013-05-31 08:35|| 2013-05-31 08:35|| Front Page Top

#4 There is a potential loss of water at the reservoir due to evaporation across a larger surface area.

Posted by rammer 2013-05-31 10:32|| 2013-05-31 10:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Kansas and Colorado been fighting over the John Martin reservoir and the Arkansas River for 25 years.

Posted by bman 2013-05-31 10:55|| 2013-05-31 10:55|| Front Page Top

#6 Rammer, dunno about that. Evaporation is proportionate to surface area exposed to the air, and there's less water exposed in a lake versus the same volume of water flowing through a river.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2013-05-31 11:01|| 2013-05-31 11:01|| Front Page Top

#7 So, how does it reduce Egypt's water supply?

There is a lot less water flowing downstream (see: Colorado River)

Posted by Pappy 2013-05-31 12:19|| 2013-05-31 12:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Easier to get more and bigger straws into a lake than a river.

Posted by Shipman 2013-05-31 12:26|| 2013-05-31 12:26|| Front Page Top

#9 Next would come the golf courses, and then it would be on.

Posted by swksvolFF 2013-05-31 12:33|| 2013-05-31 12:33|| Front Page Top

#10 Obvious solution to Egypt's water shortages is to collect output from pissed egyptians.

Heheh. Combine that with energy collected from all the seething and Egypt is on it's way to being a modern, prosperous country. Except for all the bad government, I mean.

Posted by SteveS 2013-05-31 13:03|| 2013-05-31 13:03|| Front Page Top

#11 Easier to get more and bigger straws into a lake than a river

That would mean Egypt and Ethiopia would have to come to a deal.

/innocent look

Posted by Pappy 2013-05-31 14:47|| 2013-05-31 14:47|| Front Page Top

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