Wednesday Nite @ The Lab

Ethiopia is building the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile River to speed regional growth. GERD will impact downstream flows, so various filling policies are analyzed (along with future climate changes) to estimate streamflow reductions at Sudan’s Gezira irrigation scheme and at Lake Nasser behind Egypt’s High Aswan Dam. This provides regional decision-makers with a set of plausible, justifiable, and comparable outcomes to facilitate basin-wide discussion
& cooperation.