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It seems funny with the people.

The mathematical formula of apportioning the Nile water:

Annual discharge of the river was estimated at about 74 Billion Cubic Meter (BCM), of which 55.5 BCM was allocated to Egypt and the remaining 18.5 BCM was apportioned to Sudan, Ethiopia was sent home empty handed, by implication, by a treaty (1959) between Egypt and The Sudan.

By adding these shares to their acquired rights, the total share from the net yield of the Nile after the full operation of the Sudd el Aali Reservoir shall be 18.5 Milliards for the Republic of the Sudan and 55.5 Milliards for the United Arab Republic.

United Arab Republic was the name of current day Egypt.



This lasted for over many decades.

The dam is 111 metres (364 feet) high, with a crest length of 3,830 metres (12,562 feet) and a volume of 44,300,000 cubic metres (57,940,000 cubic yards). It impounds a reservoir, Lake Nasser, that has a gross capacity of 169 billion cubic metres (5.97 trillion cubic feet). The reservoir has a depth of 90 metres (300 feet) and averages 22 km (14 miles) in width. Of the Nile’s total annual discharge, some 74 billion cubic metres (2.6 trillion cubic feet) of water have been allocated by treaty between Egypt and Sudan, with about 55.5 billion cubic metres (1.96 trillion cubic feet) apportioned to Egypt and the remainder to Sudan. Lake Nasser backs up the Nile about 320 km (200 miles) in Egypt and almost 160 km (100 miles) farther upstream (south) in Sudan.

You may think this could be a painful experience for Ethiopia for generations, and you will be forgiven for that until you see a more excruciating pain of lose of a national treasure, while the people were left to be a symbol of hunger for many many years around the world.

In addition to the human and archaeological costs, the Aswan High Dam has gradually decreased the fertility and, hence, the productivity of Egypt’s riverside agricultural lands. Because of the dam’s complete control of the Nile’s annual flooding, much of the flood and its load of rich fertilizing silt is now impounded in reservoirs and canals, and the silt is thus no longer deposited by the Nile’s rising waters on farmlands. Egypt’s annual application of about 1 million tons of artificial fertilizers is an inadequate substitute for the 40 million tons of silt formerly deposited annually by the Nile flood.

How many tones of the same artificial fertilizers did Ethiopia shop from overseas to be able to harvest something to feed her people in the mean time, while it is also clear the vast majority of that amount of silt did originate from Ethiopia itself, if not all.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Aswan-High-Dam


I am not sure, if the (current) capacity of GERD was also set at 74 BCM water reservoir by mere accident or any implication to the above water quota of the two downstream countries of Egypt and the Sudan.