Dam bluster: How climate change might affect the Nile

Print section Print Rubric:  The countries in the Nile basin will suffer if they do not learn to co-operate Print Headline:  Flood and famine Print Fly Title:  Climate change and the Nile UK Only Article:  standard article Issue:  How to avoid nuclear war with North Korea Fly Title:  Dam bluster Location:  CAIRO TO THE untrained eye, the satellite photos of north-west Ethiopia on July 10th may have seemed benign. They showed a relatively small pool of water next to an enormous building site on the Blue Nile, the main tributary of the Nile river. But the project under construction is the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which is more than halfway complete. And the water is why it is so controversial. Since Ethiopia announced its plan to build the dam, it has inspired threats of sabotage from Egypt, which sits downstream and relies on the Nile for electricity, ...

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