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"If there is a need to go to war, we could get millions readied.”
“Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed issues Warning over Renaissance Dam,” Al Jazeera, October 22, 2019.
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Because of the opposition coming from online spaces, the EPRDF has placed severe restrictions on what citizens can view on the internet.
Harry Verhoeven, “The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: Africa’s Water Tower, Environmental Justice & Infrastructural Power,” Daedalus 150, no. 4 (2021): 159-80.
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According to Seide and Fatini, “Identity can be embodied, embedded, and constructed through the performativity of the everyday affective interactions.”
Emanuele Fatini and Wondwosen Seide, “Emotions in Water Diplomacy: Negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam,” Water Alternatives 16, no. 3 (2023): 912-929.
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Egypt has claimed historical rights, saying that because this is the way it has always been and this system has been established, they are entitled to the water. However, Ethiopia wants the water based on their claim of equitable rights.
Hagai Erlich, The Cross and the River: Ethiopia, Egypt, and the Nile, (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers), 7.
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Another issue brought up by Karim Morsy (a researcher in climate change) and his team is the amount of greenhouse gasses that will be released because of the GERD.
Karim Morsy, et. al., “Comprehensive Assessment for the Potential Environmental Impacts of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Downstream Countries: Itaipu Dam in the Rearview Mirror,” Air, Soil, and Water Research 14, (2021).
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The team also found that the dam would cause a blockage of sediments, as they would get trapped behind it.
Eman Abdel-Aal, et. al., “Ecological status of Lake Nasser Khors, Egypt, before operating the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam,” Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 37, no. 4 (2023): 1229-1245.
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Using the data they collected, they believe that the GERD will make the water colder, the speed of the water slower, and the water will reduce in quality.
Eman Abdel-Aal, et. al., “Ecological status of Lake Nasser Khors, Egypt, before operating the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam,” Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 37, no. 4 (2023): 1229-1245.
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A team of seven scientists were able to conduct studies of the ecological status of Lake Nasser before the filling of the GERD began.
Eman Abdel-Aal, et. al., “Ecological status of Lake Nasser Khors, Egypt, before operating the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam,” Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 37, no. 4 (2023): 1229-1245.
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Eldeeb completed research surrounding a potential failure of the GERD, to properly prepare should a disaster ever occur. Using advanced computer software, he was able to create a map with the elevation of the land taken into consideration to show where exactly the water would flow if the dam broke.
Hazem Eldeeb, et. al., “Flood Propagation Modeling: Case Study the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Failure,” Alexandria Engineering Journal 71 (2023): 227-237.
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“GERD is located on one of the major tectonic plates and faults in the world. Around that fault, Ethiopia has recorded 15,000 earthquakes.”
Hazem Eldeeb, et. al., “Flood Propagation Modeling: Case Study the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Failure,” Alexandria Engineering Journal 71 (2023): 227-237.
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With climate change increasing every year, weather patterns become more variable, unstable, and harder to predict.
Karim Morsy, et. al., “Comprehensive Assessment for the Potential Environmental Impacts of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Downstream Countries: Itaipu Dam in the Rearview Mirror,” Air, Soil, and Water Research 14, (2021).
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High modernism (James Scott):
James Scott, “Nature and Space,” in Seeing like a State, (Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1998), 11-52.
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“We had an internal challenge and external pressure. We’ve reached [this stage] by coping together with God,”
“Filling of Grand Renaissance Dam on the Nile complete, Ethiopia says,” Al Jazeera, September 10, 2023.
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“It is with great pleasure that I announce the successful completion of the fourth and final filling of the Renaissance Dam.” This was the message sent out by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed mid September of 2023 on X, formerly known as Twitter.
“Filling of Grand Renaissance Dam on the Nile complete, Ethiopia says,” Al Jazeera, September 10, 2023.
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