On September 11, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed officially opened the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a $5 billion megaproject that has been under construction since 2011. Operations ...
French engineering, design and project management firm Artelia has been picked to replace Deltares—an independent Dutch institute for applied research in water and subsurface—in a contract to study ...
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is nearly finished, and it's already rewriting the rules of power, water, and sovereignty ...
Wheeler, K.G., M. Basheer, Z.T. Mekonnen, S.O. Eltoum, A. Mersha, G.M. Abdo, E.A. Zagona, J.W. Hall and S.J. Dadson (2016). “Cooperative Filling Approaches for the ...
A new peer-reviewed study led by Dr. Hesham El-Askary, Ph.D., professor of computational and data science at Chapman University, concludes that the saddle dam of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam ...
Water ministers from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan are in talks, since Wednesday, to choose from four unnamed international consultancy firms. I confirm the construction of the Renaissance Dam will not ...
CAIRO — Egypt appealed to the United Nations Security Council on Friday to intervene in talks over a $4 billion hydroelectric dam being built by Ethiopia on the Blue Nile river. Subscribe to read this ...
The construction site of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Guba, Ethiopia, Nov. 24, 2017 (Photo by Gioia Forster for dpa via AP Images). Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam, the Grand Ethiopian ...
Ethiopia is building a mega-dam along the Nile River, and the ambitious project is straining relations with downstream Egypt. Construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam began in 2011. The $4 ...