Venice – St. Mark’s Square in Venice went under water on Tuesday after failing to activate a newly installed system of a mobile artificial dam. Residents – longtime accustomed to the perennial “a kava alta” or high water events – feet above sea level in the afternoon. The feet are …
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FILE PHOTO: Water flows through Ethiopia’s Great Renaissance Dam as it undergoes construction work on the Nile River in Guba Woreda, Benishangul Gumuz region, Ethiopia, September 26, 2019. Photo taken on 26 September 2019. REUTERS / Tiksa Negeri / File Photo CAIRO / KHARTUM (Reuters) – Egypt and Sudan criticized …
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Ethiopia has rejected reports that it is filling a massive reservoir behind a new hydroelectric dam, as the colossal infrastructure project strains ties between three African nations that depend on the Nile River for water. Egypt has previously threatened to go to war over the dam Nearly 10 years of …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Ethiopia told Sudan that news reports that it had begun to fill the reservoir of Ethiopia’s Great Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile were incorrect, Sudan’s foreign ministry said Thursday in a release. FILE PHOTO: A sample satellite image shows a close-up view of the Ethiopian Renaissance …
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – The reservoir behind Ethiopia’s Great Renaissance Dam is filling up, its water minister said on Wednesday, a day after talks with Sudan and Egypt over the giant Blue Nile hydroelectric project . A satellite image of the brochure shows a close-up view of the Ethiopian Great …
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