“The filling of the reservoir is scheduled to begin in 7 July 2020.[11][1] Once completed, the reservoir could take anywhere between 5 and 15 years to fill with water”
“Forget it, Jake!”
It is about 1,000 miles from Egypt’s southern border with Sudan to the dam. Does the Egyptian air force have the infrastructure to hit it? Perhaps Sudan will allow Egypt to use their air bases to hit the dam.
Control the water, control the people...
While China is our enemy, I'm not sure I can cheer on the potential for the Three Gorges damn to fail, as there are nearly 40 million people in its downstream path.
I just don't expect it to withstand the current rains.
I think it was Alvin Toffler who predicted last century that the 21t century would feature Islamic Jihads and wars fought over water. The Nile, the Tigress and the Jordan were all candidates. Before anyone gets on their high horse, look at the water problems in our own West. California regularly takes water from others and the Rio Grande is nothing but a few muddy puddles when it reaches the Mexican border.
With the water from the Nile the rest of its tributary countries have an opportunity to develop. But Egypt will suffer in equal measure to their development. The Turks said they would never use water as a weapon...yeah, sure.
One bright spot in this is Israeli technology for desalinating sea water. That and the advent of cheap modular reactors might prevent a few wars, but that is a long, long way off. A lot of people will die before they either accept Israeli help or the world allows more reactors, regardless of how safe they can be made.
rival - late 16th century: from Latin rivalis, originally in the sense ‘person using the same stream as another’, from rivus ‘stream’.
Africans will regret ever allowing the Chinese to infest their continent — if they don’t already.
Ethiopia about to dam Egypt. A project that would be incredibly dramatic for history and the region. The Nile is huge, and part of the fabric of the region. There will be a war over the Nile river.
Oh GREAT! Another dam built by the reds.
The one they built in China aint doing so great now.
Who's getting paid off?
The Nile dam,
In Scripture???
The white Nile is not a trickle.
It flows at 878 m3/s (31,000 cu ft/s).
What could go wrong with chinese concrete and Ethiopia laborers? I wonder how many are buried inside the concrete?...
Sounds like these countries are in da Nile, here.
Who gives a dam?
Sudan is in the middle of it all. How will it be affected?