Mohamed Seif Eldin-Cairo
Social media activists have been outraged after Egypt's announcement last Saturday that negotiations on the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam had failed.
Through the labeling of "Sisi_My_Nile", which tops the list of the highest-circulation "Trend" activists expressed their anger, holding the Egyptian president fully responsible for the outcome of the negotiations, and the following are a number of tweets.
#Renault dam solution for the people |
Stages of laughter to the people |
Imagine this wretched servile Foreign Minister Egypt Egypt Egypt Anto knowing means Egypt means the backbone of the entire region, if he would address his son Mesh Hikad Keda. pic.twitter.com/Xbgqc7dgKm - Ahmed (@ Ahmed95818170) October 8, 2019 |
For history .. |
Lean years await the people of Egypt |
On Saturday, the Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources announced, following a meeting of the Ministers of Water Resources of Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, that the negotiations of the Renaissance Dam reached a dead end due to the hardening of the Ethiopian side.
Later, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi commented on the outcome of the negotiations through a tweet on Twitter, stressing that "his country with all its institutions is committed to protecting the Egyptian water rights in the Nile waters."
I have followed closely the results of the tripartite meeting of irrigation ministers in Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia to discuss the file of the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which did not result in any positive development .. I affirm that the Egyptian state with all its institutions is committed to protecting the Egyptian water rights in the Nile waters, - Abdelfattah Elsisi (@AlsisiOfficial) October 5, 2019 |
Egypt is expected to be deprived of 15 billion cubic meters per year of its share of the Nile water once Ethiopia completes filling the dam of the Renaissance Dam (74 billion cubic meters) over five years.
Egypt's share of the Nile River's water is 55 billion cubic meters annually, and the river provides about 90% of the country's water needs, while the rest comes from groundwater, rain and desalination.
In early September, Egyptian Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Ati said that "in return for Egypt's shortage of 1% of the Nile water, about 100,000 feddans would be lost."
According to previous government estimates, the water stress rate in Egypt reached 140%, which means that the share of the Egyptian citizen of the Nile water decreased to about 600 cubic meters annually from 2500, which is less than 40% of the water poverty line set by the United Nations at 1000 meters. Cubic per capita per year.