GERD - Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
Dear Friends,
Let us share with you some key facts and figures in order to clarify the context regarding the GERD - Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
The 2 sub topics at hand are electricity access and the Nile waters sharing.
1) Electricity access
The GERD - Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is currently the biggest hydroelectric dam in Africa, it has an installed production generation capacity of 5.150MW that will allow it to produce an average of 16.000 GWH/Year.
The use of water, a renewable resource, for the dam's turbines avoids more than 2.000.000 tons of CO2 emissions/Year.
The GERD - Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is built for electrification purpose and is self financed by Ethiopia.
GERD is a non water consumptive project.
The dam is located nearby the border with Sudan.
The 1st filling of the reservoir took place in 2020 during the rainy season (2nd and 3rd filling took place in 2021 and 2022), the full filling process will take 4 to 7 years (the initial Ethiopian plan was 3 years).
Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt signed the DoP - Declaration of Principles on the GERD in 2015.
According to the World Bank, the electricity access rate in 2020 was 45% in Ethiopia, 60% in Sudan and 100% in Egypt.
The GERD will be a source of cheaper and cleaner electricity for Ethiopia and the neighboring countries, it will be a major contributor to the United Nations SDG 7 (Sustainable Development Goal 7) - Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.
2) Nile waters sharing
Egypt still refers to the 1959 bilateral agreement with Sudan (that Ethiopia has never recognized) which allocates 66% to Egypt, 22% to Sudan, 12% for evaporation and 0% to Ethiopia.
As reminder Ethiopia contributes to about 85% of the Nile flow during the rainy season with the Blue Nile (called ዓባይ Abay/Abbay in Ethiopia) and the White Nile is the other contributor.
According to the United Nations, in 2020, Ethiopia had a population of 115 million inhabitants, Sudan had a population of 43.9 million inhabitants and Egypt had a population of 102 million inhabitants.
Ethiopia refers to the NBI - Nile Basin Initiative that includes all the 10 Nile Basin countries.
The NBI has put forward the CFA - Cooperative Framework Agreement that outlines principles for cooperative management and development of the Nile Basin water resources.
For more insights on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the related topics, please refer to the GERD Support Group Facebook page and Twitter page.
Kind regards,
BelgoEthiopian Association
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Dear Friends,
Ethiopië ik wil leven in partnership with Viva Sara organize interesting activities about Ethiopia (From April 18 to April 24, 2013).
Dear Friends,
We hope you are all doing fine.
We would like to wish you Happy New Year and Melkam Gena! In 2012, the BelgoEthiopian Association has resumed its efforts of "building bridges" between Belgium and Ethiopia. We were happy to organize our yearly event, the screening of the film-documentary "Town of Runners" at Espace Delvaux. We would like to thank all those who helped organizing this and especially Members & Friends of the BelgoEthiopian Association, Espace Delvaux, Dan Demissie (Town of Runners), Aksum Coffee House and KoKoB.
We also take this opportunity to bring to your attention two great projects:
- Library Project in Bekoji
- And vzw Ethiopïe ik wil leven
We are looking forward to meeting you in 2013 for further initiatives.
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Kind Regards,
BelgoEthiopian Association