\u00a9The law of intellectual\nproperty is prohibited in any way unlawful use\/appropriation of this article,\nwith heavy civil and criminal penalties for the infringer.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The geography and history of the conflict<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Nile River is formed by two smaller rivers. From the Blue Nile River\nthat springs from Ethiopia and from the White Nile River that springs to\nKhartoum. These two rivers unite and form the Nile River passing through Sudan\nand Egypt and out into the Mediterranean Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The conflict between these three states-Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia-starts from the announcement of Ethiopia that it will build in the Blue Nile River a gigantic hydroelectric power plant-named Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)-with a maximum production capacity of 6.45 Gigawatts. Its construction is estimated to cost $4 billion and is expected to produce electricity by the end of 2020 and will be fully operational by 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This fact evokes a thimyality in Egypt and since Egypt depends almost 90%\non the water and its irrigation from the waters of the Nile River. Egypt is\nalready experiencing prolonged periods of water scarcity, and climate change\nwith the Egyptians, to believe that the drastic constraint that will be caused\nin the waters of the Nile River due to this gigantic dam will further\nexacerbate the prolonged crisis of water scarcity in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the same time in a report of the UN World Food Program (www.wfp.org) about climate change says that Egypt is expected to lose more than 30% of the food it produces by 2040 if temperatures rise due to climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Suggested solutions for this conflict<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Egypt-Sudan<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n It is sensible that Egypt’s concerns are trying to make a commitment from\nEthiopia about the size of the required quantity needed for the population and\nits economy and independently if Ethiopia on its part does not want to commit to\nsomething like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But through crises, opportunities are created. Opportunities that, when followed by a program, can provide the necessary solutions. In this case, Egypt should create all those infrastructures which will provide it with a seamless flow of water and beyond the water flows of the Nile River to date, which specific new water flows will used exclusively for the irrigation of its agricultural and livestock industry, without this excluding the coverage of part of the needs for the water supply of its population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More specifically, the Government of Egypt (the same strategy applies to\nSudan) in collaboration with local engineers, with the Polytechnic Universities\nof Egypt and with specialized companies from abroad should launch the\nconstruction of large infrastructures sea water desalination in Egypt. Such\ninfrastructures should be created both in Northern Egypt (on the Mediterranean\nSea coast) and in South-Eastern Egypt on the coast of the Red Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition, Egypt needs to finance and develop the construction of a\ngigantic irrigation system that will transport the produced potable water\n(after the application of the desalination process) from the specific\ninfrastructures to the crops of the Southern and Western Egypt and more\ngenerally in the whole of the country’s crops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Egypt as a country does not need to build a new hydroelectric dam for\nenergy production and since they have recently been discovered in the Egyptian Exclusive\nEconomic Zone (EEZ) of the Mediterranean Sea giant-sized underwater gas\ndeposits that will be able to decades to conserve energy throughout the country\nand its population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What is needed for the economy of Egypt is the construction of a gigantic\nsize (in the production of potable water) desalination infrastructures. Even if\nit were not the construction of this gigantic dam in Ethiopia, sooner or later Egypt\nwould be forced to construct these desalination infrastructures due to future climate\nchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With the construction of these desalination infrastructures, Egypt is gradually becoming independent of the “precious gold” of Africa which is water and specifically from the waters of the Nile River. Even if the annually per capita quantity of water is reduced below 500m3<\/sup> having Egypt (and Sudan respectively) succeed in the complete replacement of the Nile River water used for irrigation of agriculture and of the country’s livestock, there will be no problem as to the water needs of its population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition, we should add that the Egyptian government should proceed to\nnew agricultural reform after it has managed through the construction of\nirrigation networks to transform the Egyptian desert regions (Egyptian Sahara) into\narable land and to sell them to by profession farmers of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More on the rural reform of Egypt please read the analysis titled “Policies to reduce increased poverty rates in Egypt<\/a>“. For the development of African countries such as Ethiopia, Sudan, Malawi and more generally for the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa please read the analysis titled “Policies to successfully tackle poverty in Malawi<\/a>‘. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This strategy-policy is a one-way street for both Egypt and Sudan, where\nthis should also be the case for the construction of desalination\ninfrastructures on the Soudan’s shores in the Red Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ethiopia<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n On the other hand, Ethiopia as a land-territorial country that does not\nhave access to the sea cannot implement this strategy and quite rightly the\nEthiopian government follows the strategy of the construction of the specific\nhydroelectric dam that will feed both energy and water flow the irrigation and\nwater supply of its country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Certainly, the strategies proposed by The Liberal Globe for Egypt and Sudan\nhave the cost of rebuilding all these proposed infrastructures, but they need\nto be done to move forward in the future all these three countries together\nwithout conflicts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Nile River, which the ancient Egyptians considered a source of all life and follows a northwest direction by establishing fertile all the valleys…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[835,3],"tags":[942,154,1219,2836,1218,1016,1221],"class_list":["post-1511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa-geopolitical","category-geopolitical","tag-agricultural-reform","tag-egypt","tag-ethiopia","tag-gerd","tag-nile-river","tag-sudan","tag-wfp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1511"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5450,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions\/5450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/00541632_Trump_with_ForeignMinisters_ofSudanEgyptEthiopia-300x184.jpg\")
Predident Donald Trump, joined by Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin, meets with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Sudan Asma Mohamed Abdalla, left, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Egypt Someh Shoukry, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal democratic republic of Ethiopia Gedu Andergechew, in the Oval Office of the White House Wednesday, November 6, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Whiteandblueniles-1.jpg\")
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