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Pay for our water, it’s that simple

no water for you egypt haha

Bless you brother/sister. If Egypts leadership shared your mindset, we would not have any issues.

@@ambessashield9360 agreed! The whole situation could have been handled in a much more productive manner

Egypt was enemy of Ethiopia until now

Bro haileslasye was literally a puppet of England in 1959 😂😂😂

The past is dead. and you know that the problem is that Egypt wants to use this reservoir as an EGYPTIAN reserve in periods of drought.

I was replying to the reason Ethiopia didn’t include in agreement in 1959 and at that time haileslasye was the puppet of England infact they brought him to power from hiding from his country and he chose to invade Eritrea instead against the will of Eritreans

@@eritrawimalet2385 So you read the word Ethiopia and were compelled to write* something negative about Haile Selassie? How interesting.

Property of England....That was funny 😂😂😂😂

Imagine in future Ethiopia just shuts off water for the whole country 😢

Egypt is building a nuclear power plant and they have many desalination and wastewater treatment plants under construction. It's not one or the other.

Lol, Egypt is actually building a nuclear power plant now, and desalination plants.. But that's not enough for 110 million people.

​@@millevenon5853that's not how a dam Work.. And how they will generate electricity?!

why aren't you president, we need more politicians with common sense

Egypt 🇪🇬 will destroy the stupid and illegal dam😂

These are the 'good' times, if there's a drought Egypt will have to take military action to destroy it unless it can get enough water from somewhere else.

@@ZeroSumgame-vo4uh good luck with the flood.

@@selamalazar Egypt will take command of it and shut it down

​@@ZeroSumgame-vo4uhillegal. That had to the stupidest thing I have ever heard.

not crazy it's stupid project

victim blaming?

Its not like anyone is forcing them to spend billions on a new capital ​@@treelight1707

That's just dictators doing dumb dictators things

@@treelight1707 Who’s the victim?

a significant chunk also comes from the Kenyan Mau highlands which then flows downstream to L. Victoria.

Water rights are a thing all over the world, at least where water is scarce. The Nile belongs to all three countries.

​@@vickomen3697 just 15 %. The other 85 % is from Amhara, Ethiopia

@@vickomen3697Great tell Egypt to Negotiate with Kenya both former colonies of British empire!

@@Getaneh188 did my statement dispute anything. Lol! It's not always about competition Getaneh. Chill.

this is stupid, no one owns the nile. Redirecting water from the nile to force entire populations into dehydration is eviI

I support Ethiopia but your comment goes against common sense and international norms. You cannot starve a downstream country.

​@@alhabtoormotors4221on what law?

But drowninga 100m people by striving them of their source of water for literally thousands of years is ok? you must be out of your mind

No one upstream country or regime should be the "owner " of rivers and let downstream people go dry coz they cant/dont pay

It will be easier and cheaper if Egypt imported the food from outside or bought farming land on other African countries... Literally wheat from Ukraine will be much cheaper

@@myname2938egypt is already the largest importer of ukranian wheat you are clueless

​@@sfx9570 yet Egypt pretend they do 🤦🏾‍♂️

Yeah but Egypt is broke. That's also a blessing in disguise since it means that Egypt doesn't really have the money to raise the army and go fight a war with Ethiopia since it would literally bankrupt the state. Probably the best deal they could make would be to make a deal with the EU where European companies build nuclear power plants and/or desalination plants in exchange for probably something like some of the profit and cooperation on migration from Egypt.

Both Egypt n Sudan doesn't rain , it rains in ethiopia, while ethiopia is the hungry one 😢

Hahaha you don't understand Egypt prepare themselve well we made 7 way to move water even Aswan dam we remove 1 turbine to accelerate water move so we in save also we have ENOUGH military to wep tekezy and fensh PLUSE GERD in one strike but we have better plane Ethiopia have civil war and investment run from Ethiopia we let Ethiopia destroy internal to devided it to 5 new state also we make GERD failed project Sudan will not import electricity and we provide Kenya though our dam in Tanzania with cheap electricity so no profit for ethiopia dam

​@@diaaahmed6734 bro. Punctuation.

@@schmidth we invest 20 billion EGP for increase size lake naser and toska lakes to receive 90 billion meter of water in 45 days if GERD dam destroy by earthquake Egypt will punish Ethiopia by destroy rest of dams and reback banishangol PLUSE many things Ethiopia Israel tools and Egypt Israel involved in war with Gaza after finish from Israel we will care about rest of Ethiopia we get SU-35 AND EAFAKE TO CARE ABOUT ETHIOPIA PLUS 2300 BALISTIC MISSILES NOBODY WILL PROTECT ETHIOPIA FROM EGYPT

@@diaaahmed6734 the dam in Tanzania is not yours you just built it, its owned by Tanzania

​@@diaaahmed6734in your dreams just like your ancestors was defeated and crushed by Ethiopian heroes at three battles 😂 A good name is better than a good perfumes ( Ethiopian proverbs)

Egypt should pay back for all the wate rthey used for 6000 years!

​@natesnautical do you have a brain? Egypt is the last stop of the Nile river. They can do whatever they want with the water

It’s not just theirs and Egypt should get what they always had for free

its not yours unless you physically created the river itself like egyptians physically created the suez canal.

I think if someone is blocking 95% of your country's water supply, that's an act of war already.

Lol. Ethiopia is in a 4 way civil war with MILLIONS dead and MILLIONS actually in starvation... There's ENTIRE regions that are under separatists control. Ethiopia has threatened war with Sudan, Djbouti, Eritrea and Somalia... they have no friends left. They backstabbed Kenya by making them cut off Eritrea only for Abiy to make a deal with them... (he subsequently backstabbed Eritrea too) There's an ongoing Amhara genocide carried out by the Ethiopian govt. It's the new Yugoslavia.

Water is human basic needs. Going to war for it is completely justified. Either find a way to share or fight for it.

What leverage does ethipoor have? Egypt has a pathetic army but enough to bomb this dam

@@NaganoharaYoimiya-bs7hb lol what kind of mentality is that 🥴

Won’t you guys reduce the water reaching them

Ethiopia wants acces to sea by force why cant egypt do the Same you sound like a cat 😂😂

@@SomaliFMradio by force - The Somali Land loves Ethiopia. You are not the same country - live with it. They were an Italian colony and they don't want you and they lead themselves, have their own everything

NEVER​@@nassernathan

​@SomNot by Foce. wrong assumptio. go and read aliFMradio

Which Ethiopia? 😂

for millenia

@@sonsonito2Ethiopia that controls you😂

@@sonsonito2We have more than one? 😅

That does not make sense

Neither is Ethiopia

@@mrm2204whether they are the owners or not is irrelevant to the fact that one of the sources of the Nile starts within their borders.

​@@MikeyLikesIt89lol

@@mrm2204they are because the rains fall in their land and the river originates in their land, if they want they can block in entirely

Egypt birthrate is lower than Ethiopia it has also dropped specifically in cities were it's below 2 children but rural birthrate is really high but Ethiopia is not a 96% desert like Egypt

From your ethiopian brother we thank you for your suport

​@@josexsamuelx2550 Love from 🇳🇬 🙋🏾‍♂️

Thank you!!

That of course if they have the entire Nile river as their property which is not, if the waters flows from your land doesn't mean it only yours because it flows in our lands as well it's not a solo river where it begins and ends in the same country and it flows in many different countries which all of them benefit from it and no country gets to decide alone what to do with the river especially if it's harming the other neighbors

@@ugwuanyicollins6136 lost identity person

Ethiopia can use it for any other purpose

Egypt think they own an African river while pretending not to be African

@@ugwuanyicollins6136well said 😂

Dam is complete. It would need six or seven years to fill in mean time water flow to down stream countries would be reduced they can do nothing.

Exactly. Egypt should be building desalination plants along the Mediterranean powered by Wind Turbines placed out in the Mediterranean instead of a new multi billion dollar capital...

They did build those things and why isnt Ethiopia building them too?

@@gracialonignasiver6302 desalination is not feasible for 109 million people.

@@Seth9809 we don’t need the water, we need the electricity that it produces. Egypt on the other hand needs the water more than it needs that new city

Whether you have enough electricity or not is irrelevant. The fact remains that your country is willing to buy more electricity from Ethiopia. Eg. It's like how the US buys oil from Arabia despite having its own plentiful reserves.

😂😂😂 Maybe he means Kenya

I think he means Kenya since Kenya has already agreed on 20 year deal with Ethiopia, From my knowledge Tanzania has it's own dams for the time being but they may need more when they are growing more.

I'd be so happy to hear that if that was true. I have never heard any African country saying we have more than enough electricity! You may also refer the statistics about the electric consumption and need data about Africa. So if what you said is true then congratulations for Tanzania in becoming the first energy sufficient country at list in Africa! Good luck!

Google about east Africa power pool

Why you put the american Flag? Geniously curious.

So the only solution is to divert the river from the source to a new location then everyone will dig deep down their feet or start to desalinate sea water without looking any further.😬😬

@@rioluna6058just to show his nation of origin most likely

Sudan is a puppet of Egypt.

Let them try,Aswan dam will be destroyed and they will suffer big loss too, those sons of pharaoh shouldn't undermine real African people

nobody pays for a river

​​@@mohamedelkaremy851 well then this will be a brand new start, Mohamed! 😂😂

Because there was no drought, genius. What happens if there is. Do yourself a favor and actually watch the video, it’s not that long.

@@sonsonito2 If there is a drought then the Sudanese and Egyptians will rely on their reservoirs. Also, the filling of GERD is almost complete so it’s impact on the volume of water that flows will be minimal after that.

Yea the issue is that china built and funded it. This will be a massive economic boost to the ethopia and its neighbors. The addition of electricity and 5g to the areas will provide a plethora of markets that will eventually pour money and influence back to china. Egypt is a US tool

That's what i thought too, and ethiopia needs electricity more than water, energy is more important and expensive.. So. They will be letting the water pass..

@@myname2938 building the grid and transmission lines required from the gerd to Addis Ababa will cost much more than the dam itself which is 3 times oversized for optimum electricity generation anyway.

if they can raise their iq's then yes

@@mikelons3000Like what gender they are?

potential to initiate wars only

@@mikelons3000 so true....

Pan Africa is not real thing.

Well yes, a weaker country indeed can not harm a stronger country. Egypt is stronger than Ethiopia. This is the way the world works, and it is the way it has always worked. I don't understand why is it such a big deal for Ethiopia to guarantee Egypt's water supply? It doesn't seem like Egypt is being unreasonable? Egypt is essentially fine with the dam, they just want Ethiopia to promise that they won't stop the water from going downstream.

@@truedps8 Ethiopia is not weaker than Egypt. Ethiopia out of 56 countries in Africa has never been colonized. Unlike Egypt and the rest. May i also tell yo that Ethiopia has beaten Egypt in 2 wars. Not only that, do you think you can win a war and take the water? The water will always be in Ethiopia and if Egypt played nasty, they will never get a drop now and in the future. Ethiopia holds all the aces mate. We are a high land and you can never come and colonize us and control us. But we love egypt and we respect them so no need for any of that. Just share, sharing is caring. When you want it all like you do, its unfair and its impossible too.

@@truedps8 Yes Arab Egypt has always said it was stronger than Ethiopia but history tells us differently. From King Dawit im 14th century invading Mamluk Egypt to save Copts, Ras Kenfu in 1838, to the reign of Emperor Yohannes, you see Ethiopians dominated them.

@@truedps8 well saying you are stronger is irrelevant since you lost every war you have ever fought. everyone knows Egypts Army and economy is funded and maintained by America because you're a pawn they use to protect Israel and influence arab league policy. the thing about depending on others for your defence is when things change and friends become enemies you are left on the outside. You did not consider yourself as African in all of your history so don't expect any support from the AU. We are not fools despite what you think. Egypt has had her hand in every conflict that has arisen in Ethiopia for the last 200 years. you are fearful of this dam because you know this fact. Guilt is a powerful thing.

@@truedps8 i dont think arabs can fight.

I hope your country gets the oficial independence you guys deserve. I have seen videos about somaliland and I didnt knew it was a diferent state from somalia and that you guys are doing better because you were able to create good conditions to start making a country, a naciónality, your own idiosincrasy. I love geography so when I knew about this I had to tell all of my friends... I wish you guys good luck 🤙🏻

This Mexican recognizes Somaliland as an INDEPENDENT NATION

@@northamericanintercontinen3207 not officialy but we abreciate

@@northamericanintercontinen3207 very proud of you Bruder #Vivamexico

There is no such thing as a Somaliland. Somalia is sovereign nation.one tribe enclave is not a nation.

SSC ended your dreams idoor, go free the 500 POW's they have in jail

Jordan get free water from israel.

It sounds like you are spiteful and jealous for no reason

Ridiculous comment. Let the waters from naturally.

Sacad oromo

building the grid and transmission lines required from the gerd to Addis Ababa will cost much more than the dam itself which is 3 times oversized for optimum electricity generation anyway.

We are talking about Nile not---

No.

@@shafsteryellow it is

@@cheatcoddes ethiopia is in the process commiting war crimes against its own population in the civil war thats killed millions whilst threatening 4 of its neighbouring country with war

EXACTLY

@@shafsteryellow; Haweeya; don’t chew too much quat!

no it doesn’t belong to Ethiopia

Under international precedent water flowing in the Blue Nile is Ethiopian until it crosses the border into Sudan then it becomes Sudanese water etc. etc. The Hague IC usually gives 50% of the historic average flow of a river "at the border" to the downstream country. Ethiopia can probably use 50% of the Blue Nile waters.

Ethiopia literally imported civilization from the Middle East

@@Seth9809 Trying to separate Ethiopia from the Middle East are we. When it comes to culture and civilization, Ethiopia and Sudan are very much the Middle East, which was considered part of Africa until Europeans decided that they didn't want to be part of a civilization which included Africans. Find out if prior to the 19th century there was any such place as the Middle East. When Napoleon said "Africa begins south of the Pyrenees" what do you think he meant?

Which Ethiopia? Abiy now only control Addis.every region there is a war.fano is coming

Because all three shared it for irrigation and only Ethiopia wants to hoard it all for money not food

I thought about Nebraska’s dams when I saw this pop up in recommended. Slightly different, but still

imagine canada damming one of her rivers that go through the us without their agreement

@@zombieat imagine a country that thinks it owns a river where the water doesn’t originate from because of a colonial British government told them it’s all theirs 😂😂😂

@@12nuk canada would be invaded the next day

Isaaqland today is only burco and hargiesa.

unofficial country

@@mohamedelkaremy851still a country

Bada ma hooyadaa baa leh

Yes 💯🇪🇹🇪🇹

So true, the entitlement of Egyptians like they are the source of the water is not buying anymore. They better accept the fact that Ethiopia has all right (even if they want to stop the flow of the water) and focus on the help Ethiopia to do reforestation around the source for better stream for further global warming and climate change problems that way the source will not stop and Ethiopia will not harm them.

By your logic half of the world world should die and the very water in their borders doesn’t belong to them

thankful to god not you. you did not create the river path nor its water flow.

@@zombieat true

this comment reeks of ignorance. Climate change literally means extreme and irregular weather patterns, too much rain and too much drought are results of climate change. Open a book

@@botanicalitus4194 Climate Change means exploiting things that have been happening for thousands of years to achieve an agenda. Example, I did open a book, and you will see that California has a history of drought and then rain, Drought and then rain. Been going on long before the alarmist noticed. Where are all the cat 5 hurricanes Al Gore Predicted would happen every year since 2005. Speaking of books, what happened to Global Warming Al Gore talked about in his work of Fiction.

Which Ethiopia? Abiy now only control Addis.every region there is a war.

Let us worry about that? Egypt for over seven decades, from Gamal Abdulnasser, Anwar Sadat, to Hussein Mubark the policy of Nile River were against Ethiopians not utilizing to benefit their population who are suffering from luck of electricity, drinking water, and food shortages . Egypt policy was” let us create havoc and chaos through their neighboring countries by involving on domestic and foreign affairs, so they will NEVER have money and time to utilize this River!”. It is cruel and evil calculations, but it did work for seventy years!. Egypt suppose to say “ shukran “ for let us use your God given River unlimited, while you suffering!. On 80s , Egypt tried to create so called “ Golf Tourism Project “ by using Nile water, while we lost over 2 millions citizens through drought!. The west even drafted a law in support of Egypt, any financial institutions like World Bank and IMF not to loan any money to utilize this River unless first get blessings from Egypt!. The funniest thing during negotiations, the west decided to select as neutral negotiator like “World Bank “!. Please, say hi to me a dead soul like “ Mahmoud Mohieldin” from world bank!. We want fair and reasonable water sharing based on better water management in all side!. This so called “ Historical Rights “ which over 70% Egypt allocated for itself and 15% to Sudan , we are not bound to it!. The rest wasted for evaporation due to carelessly built Aswan Dam and Toshka locations!. Plus we never participated and agreed on that agreement!.

Which Ethiopia? Abiy now only control Addis.every region there is a war.

@@kilershakazulu400 In your dream. Don't swallow what they feed you without testing it.

@@nebiyutesfaye3620failed state Ethiopia 🇪🇹 dreams big

​@@kilershakazulu400,😂😂😂 if that's true why you cry about ethiopia building dam😂

@@bugazi3037 you need to know one thing first of all Ethiopia will never fail go and see history we have been through a lot but Ethiopia stand strong second we may not like the current government but we all see’s the dam like our children that’s why the dome is being build day and night

Uganda has more water than Sudan , Egypt and Ethiopia combined not forgeting that the white nile flows out of Uganda. Uganda is 100% within the Nile valley. So Egypts problems have just gotten bigger cos Uganda is also building another bigger dam on murchsonfalls targeting southern sudan and eastern kongo markets.

@@user-yc5bu8xz8z yeah Uganda 🇺🇬 have plenty of reserves fresh water when you compare to the size of its area. But we are talking a bigger countries, example Uganda is 1/6 Ethiopia in land area. If there are rivers flows through out the year in your territory,there is the potential to reserving water. In Ethiopia only the blue Nile dam reserves about 74 billion cubic meters of water, lies back 250 kilometers. So there is another 9 dams are going to build only in Blue Nile river, and don’t forget Ethiopia have huge 12 rivers and have vast area.

​@@user-yc5bu8xz8z😂😂😂 this dude have no idea ethiopia is a water tower for africa this dam alone crate a 250km lake with 600m Deepthi creating 72 iceland behind that dam and we have another 12 big rivers uganda is no where near that.

keep dreaming 😴

If Egypt wants to bomb the dam they should first teach all their citizens how to hold Thier breath for 24hrs underwater and swim to the EU 😅

@@mickeydi happy that you are trying to provoke Egypt? 😊

@@mickeydi because you feel inferior to Egypt 🇪🇬

@@mohamedelkaremy851 no I don't it's simply because the water will wipe out the down stream countries obviously.

Beg who? Ethiopia is the one begging

The time of begging is passed, Its time for paying hundred billions of dollars for every tiny drop of water.

Then Egypt should stop complaining about the dam lol ​@@shafsteryellow

​@@shafsteryellowbeg for water

Which Ethiopia? Abiy now only control Addis.every region there is a war.

What makes you say this? I have heard this as well but never seen data to back it up. It feels like oil is much more scarce of a resource than water. Especially with De-Sal. Also, in most countries around the world population is declining rather increasing.

Well because you have a lot of alternatives to oil, but you don’t have for water. And in countries like Egypt and Iraq, there is really no good solution.

They not losing soil because of dam lol.

Exactly, Egypt literally lives next to the ocean and Ethiopia is land-locked.

​@s3v3n3 ocean water is fresh water ?

The same military that signed the 2015 agreement and didn't do any hostile action towards Ethiopia.. And the opposition accuse them of selling the Nile 😂 you are funny Your government is the one who tries to make Egypt looks Evil and wants you to stay poor... How could they worry about their only source of water!! They must hate us 😂

3% of the nile's total flow will evaporate in that reservoir.

@@zombieat Again, how exactly do you measure that 3%? The Nile isn't a lake with constant volume; it crosses a few climate zones, each affecting the river differently. The reservoir barely registers on the continent's map, and there is not even a puddle in the Nile. The Nile will keep niling, and that evaporation will become rainfall later. The only natural effect of this dam is that it will be a source of clean energy for the country, which barely has any.

LETS BE HONEST AT THIS POINT IN HISTORY YOU CANT COMPARE ETHOPIAS MILITARY TO THAT OF EYGPT WHICH IS A MUCH MORE POWERFUL MILITARY, UNLESS ETHOPIA GAINS THIRD PARTY SUPPOURT.

​@@user-kp3yj4gx6wEthiopia can just redirect the Nile. 80% of the water comes from Lake Tana in Ethiopia. Egypt would literally have to occupy Ethiopia, a country of 150 million people if it wants to control the dam.

Ethiopia lost to Somalia and Eritrea Ethiopia has never won a Which Ethiopia? Abiy now only control Addis.every region there is a war.

Hahaha

​​@@user-kp3yj4gx6w😂😂😂 you were even colonized bro, we have victory that flows in our vains throughout our history, we are one for our country . I am sure dozens of Ethiopians are ready to humiliate those who tried to humiliate us, we don't even need to have any conversation over our dignity and national honor! 🇪🇹❤🇪🇹❤🇪🇹❤🇪🇹❤🇪🇹long live My Ethiopia!!

Yep, much ado about nothing. In my Manitoba, Canada we have 15 HE dams, electricity enough for ourselves and to export, and everyone has plenty of water. Just a bunch of flexing muscles and nasty talk here. All will benefit from any construction and technology in Africa, if countries can work together, and forget tribal/racial selfishness that keeps them backward.

That is the White Nile, Ethiopia is damming the Blue Nile,which rises in Ethiopia. The two converge at Khartoum in Sudan. The White Nile is the longer, but the Blue Nile has a larger flow.

Also Sudan and Egypt needs to compensate Ethiopia for their past oppression of their water rights.

Which Ethiopia? Abiy now only control Addis.every region there is a war.

shut up 🤫

Yeah, make sure you remember that when Egypt starts attacking Ethiopia.

@@ryantetreault3447 so u think going to war seems to be the best case solution

@@oraschannel if Egypt thinks it’s for the betterment of its citizens the yeah

@@ryantetreault3447 if war is your choice, the Nile will turn to blood again for Egypt. We don't even have to fight you we just redirect and poison the downstream waters and its over. Every competent Egyptian knows this. The only way you can control the flow is by controlling the source which I can confidently say will never happen. if colonizing Ethiopia was easy you guys would have done it by now. god knows you tried.

Which Ethiopia? Abiy now only control Addis.every region there is a war.

water use downstream has no effect on countries upstream