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In an operation that was delayed two weeks than usual, Sudan on Thursday began to drain the water from the Jabal Al-Awliya reservoir on the White Nile, south of the capital Khartoum.
An official in connection with the matter added to Al-Arabiya / Al-Hadath that the operation started in the morning, stressing that it was not like its predecessors.
He revealed that this time, the Sudanese government will work to reduce the amount that flows due to a possible filling of the Renaissance Dam next July, according to Ethiopia’s stated intentions.
The official, who preferred not to be identified, also continued that the height of the water, which the government decided to maintain, is more than two meters above the level of the Mediterranean Sea, noting that it intends to benefit from the retained water. in feeding the Meroe Dam on the Nile River in case Ethiopia proceeds to implement the second fill. Renaissance Dam.
It is worth noting that the second filling of the Renaissance Dam, which Ethiopia intends to initiate, will cause great and unbearable damage, and may even cause greater danger to the body of the dam, threatening its collapse and flooding large areas of Sudan. and Ethiopia for themselves.
Abdel Fattah Mutaa, former head of the Nile water sector at Egypt’s Ministry of Water Resources and advisor to the former Minister of Irrigation, confirmed to Al-Arabiya.net that the two countries, Egypt and Sudan, when they signed the principled agreement with Ethiopia, it was intended that there was a common intention that Ethiopia would benefit from the dam in generating electricity. As long as there is a binding legal agreement on the filling and operating operations, but Ethiopia continued its stubbornness and carried out the first filling, then plans for the second filling, far from the agreement of the two countries or coordination with them, and what happened last year in the first fill, cannot be compared with what can happen in the second fill.
He also added that Sudan was subject to major flooding last year, and witnessed a crisis in the electricity generation of the Rossires dam, due to the first filling of Addis Ababa, complicating the situation in the second filling.
Sudan may sink!
In addition, it revealed that the process of the second filling of the dam needs 13 thousand five hundred million cubic meters of water, and in case Ethiopia begins to store that amount as expected from next July without an agreement and coordination with Sudan and Egypt, Sudanese dams will be affected, and the country will be exposed to many risks in Electricity and Agriculture, pointing to the need to coordinate Addis Ababa with Khartoum and notify you daily of the filling process data, so that you can take precautions and measures to face the expected crises of the second filling.
He said that the construction structure of the Ethiopian dam is currently, or if completed in the next few months, and before the filling begins, the large amount of stored water will not be able to withstand, which is at 5 billion meters cubic of the first fill and 13 billion in the second fill, which can expose you to collapse, and therefore you will be exposed to it. Sudan drowning, floods and torrential torrents.
Recent satellite images of the Renaissance Dam
Regarding Egypt, the Egyptian expert explained that the situation is reassuring given the rains and floods in the Ethiopian plateau, so he did not feel any risk in the first Ethiopian fill, as well as that the High Dam can compensate for any possible deficiency in the present, highlighting that the negative impact on Egypt currently will not be The degree of its impact on Sudan, but in the long term it will affect, especially in the years of drought and prolonged drought, so Egypt seeks a binding legal agreement for filling and a operation that achieves for Ethiopia its development and power generation objective and avoids the current and future negative risks of Egypt and Sudan.
Common concerns between Egypt and Sudan
It should be noted that Sudan fears major repercussions on the supply of water and electricity to its citizens in the coming months.
An image showing flowing water from Ethiopia’s Great Renaissance Dam (France Press archive)
Egypt also shares with him a unified vision on the need to prevent Ethiopia from implementing the second fill of the Renaissance dam without reaching a binding agreement for all parties on all issues related to the dam.
It is worth noting that the United States and the African Union were responding to calls from Egypt and Sudan to intervene on the crisis line.
A few days ago, the interested parties began contacts and visits to the three countries with the aim of defusing the crisis before July.
