There was alarm in Egypt when the plan to build the dam was announced in 2011 - with some MPs talking off the record about Egypts right to retaliate militarily - but much of the opposition now focuses on Ethiopias decision to increase the size of the reservoir behind the dam. The original plan was to create a lake that would store 14 billion cubic metres of water, which is enough to generate electricity, but then the lakes capacity was increased to 74 billion cubic metres, Nader Noureddin, a member of the Nile Basin Group and professor of soil and water resources at Cairo University, tells SciDev.Net. Planned electricity output has also risen, from 5,250 to 6,000 megawatts.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 10:54:13 +0000
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