Addis Ababa, July 21, 2021 (Walta) – A Sudanese official on Sunday said that no drop in the water level of the Blue Nile has been detected despite Ethiopia’s start of the second filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
Since April, Al-Daim station on the border with Ethiopia has not monitored any drop in the daily level of the water coming from the Ethiopian Plateau to Sudan, Hamid Mohamed Ali, director of Sudan’s Al-Rusaires Dam, said in a statement according to a report by Garowe Online, Kenya based media.
Although Ethiopia started the second filling of the GERD, yet the daily water amounts are stable, he noted.
But Ali stressed that despite Ethiopia’s start of the second filling of the GERD, a legal and binding deal should still be signed regarding filling and operating of the dam.
It is a sundry fact that Ethiopia has repeatedly rejected call for a binding agreement from riparian countries since it believes doing that not only compromises the development aspiration of the future generation but its violates its sovereignty.
Sudan, Egypt, and Ethiopia have been in talks for years, under the umbrella of the African Union, over the technical and legal issues related to the filling and operation of the GERD.
On Monday, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has congratulated Ethiopians on the successful completion of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, arguing that it’s an important milestone in the country’s quest to provide electricity to more than 60 million of its population who has no electric access.
The reservoir of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam [GERD] has reached an overtopping water level following the completion of the second filling process last Monday July 19, 2021 .