Regarding the dam

Fantastic, insightful article. Thank you for sharing and I hope you’re able to convince your compatriots who think otherwise.

Great article , Hope Egypt leaders think wisely and support the dam ’cause it benefits the two great brotherly nations Both Egypt and Ethiopia

Wow !! what an article. !! such a world class thinker can only be found just one in a million !!!!

Never in my lifetime have i agreed word to word to monkey’s analysis. So here is a first. Great take on what should (i stress on should) Egypt be doing. People need to know that as someone who lived in kuwait for 16 years and only spent 15 days in Ethiopia, i have never felt more connected to a people like that before. Ethiopian culture is identical to egyptian culture, even though we do not share the same religion, skin color or language, however, even someone like me can identify with that identity over the over simplified ARAB one. Thanks Salamonkey.

Very humble, nationalist, and wise writer! Though I do not belong to Egypt, you have my vote for Egypt’s parliament.

You will make a good diplomat.

FYI Egypt will not go to war with Ethiopia
for million reasons. Here it is Egypt biggest fear ever, what if the Ethiopian
(extremist groups or individuals) poisoned the Nile with industrial waste and
even nuclear residuals. Water go’s downward not upward. Cheap way to make Egypt carry for at least 50 years. Unless they stop sabotages. That is really scary.

I am an Ethiopian and was shocked to my core by the tragic death of millions of Ethiopians because of draught and famine as well as by millions more malnourished Ethiopians and further much more shocked by how Egyptian politicians only continued their rhetoric of war againist Ethiopia and at the same time lobbying successfully and blocking the
possibility of Ethiopia getting loan including from African Development Bank and were engaged and how at the same time spending tens of millions of dollars to destabilise Ethiopia by supporting Eritrean rebails and Somalia where tens of thousands of Ethiopians lost their life. In the mean time Cairo politicians were celebrating and not only having parties but were also engaged in sealing the Egyptian governments money and hiding it in forgein banks instead of creating jobs and giving the people the opportunity to aquire modern education that would have transformed Egypt into an industrial country. Through the years when I followed the news rom many sources including Al-Ahram, the country I concidered as a sisterly country was wishing as nothing but darkness, starvation and
death. I lost hope and faith complitely.
In the last 20 years as Ethiopia is moving forward and when the former president Mubarak was forced to resign, I was cautiousely optimistic specially when the Intrim PM. Of Egypt Mr. Sharif and among others the son of Gamal Abdel Nasser visited Ethiopia and recognised Ethiopias right to develop dams along the river Nile. The same oppinion which is recognised by the international community. Some Egyptian politians again today are engaged discussions on destabilising Ethiopia by supporting ”rebels” and also by spreading rumors that Egypt is obtaining refueling fighter jet aircrafts. This kind of rhetoric and or even action will not deter the present day Ethiopia on the contrary as you said it will only cause
anger and rage among milliuons of Ethiopians within the country and
abroad followed by only negative consequences. Why don’t Egyptian
polititians get engaged: 1. In solving unemployment by creating new
special training courses and creating job opportunities? 2. Why waste
millions of dollars in supporting ”rebales”? And or send ”secret
service” personel to destroy Ethiopia’s dam?. In fact for those
so-called rebales and other possible forces will only be marching
into terrains of death and arrest? Why not use the money for Egypts
development youth education and solve many other internal problems
within Egypt?
Mr. Mahmoud Salem it gives me hope that
there are Egyptian brothers and sisters who are don’t hate us and
celebrate when we suffer and die. I thank you very much for your
article which is both that of a highely intellectual and that of a
very dynamic thinker. Your courageous article needs deserving applaud
and encouragment.
Let rational thinking, action as in your article and peace be between the
two sisterly countries of Ethiopia and Egypt.
M.Amanuel. L. MD, Phd

Dear Mr. Mahmoud Salem,
You just mentioned the basic points to be considered logically regarding the environmental, economical as well as societal views. I really appreciate your scientifically sound arguments. As a nation, politicians should have to forecast and plan things strategically. The People of Egypt don’t have to allow to be used for such trash political games which don’t sound either ways.

Once again tanking the wit, courage, sharp intellegence, peace loving and extraordinary intellectual ability of Mr. Mahmoud Salem allow me to
express my oppinion in short the information I got by watching the
video clip with my friend from Morocco and the article written in
http://news.yehabesha.com/egyp…which translates the same televised
meeting under the chairmanship of President Morsi of Egypt. 1.
quote..”…Ethiopia has to commit to a certain deadline for
providing more substantial information on the impact of the dam. It
also has to sign a written, internationally accountable document that
guarantees the dam will not harm Egypt and Sudan”. Unquote. Have
Egypt even bothered to inform Ethiopia when it built the Toshka
Canal, one of the world’s most expensive and ambitious irrigation
projects. A plan that would take 10% of waters in Lake Nasser to
irrigate Egypt’s sandy Western Desert, increasing Egypt’s need
for Nile water even if they are able to maintain their 1959 treaty
share of 55 billion cubic meters???. Instead of thanking Ethiopia for
the late PM Meles Zenawi’s statmanship policy of delaying the
ratification of the Cooperative Framework Agreepent of the Seven (7)
reparian states and instead of being thankful for Ethiopia to get
engaged in dialog that consists of Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt, The
Egyptian polititicians arrogantely demand to make this and that
transparent and even demand from Ethiopia to sign a document that
guarantees the GERD will not harm Egypt and Sudan. My question to the
Egyptian politicians in Cairo is: Who the heck do they think they are
to make such a demand? And secondly, Do they even understand what a
statmanship like is?. The sabre-rattling that they seem to be obssed
with is a futil attempt. Remember the 1970’s of the Egyptian secret
service and special forces disasterous failure and immidiate
surrender to Cyprus paramilitary units ending up as prisoners of
war?. Mind you not yesterday’s and even today’s Ethiopian defence
forces are no much to Cyprus’s paramilitary units. Ethiopians have
always been and are a peace loving people but always even when the
country was weak have always defeated the all the agressors including
Egypt two times but also Turkey and Italy as examples. Furthermore,
Egytians must understand that Ethiopians neither want vengence nor
have any apetite to cause any harm to Sudan and Egypt. As the late Pm
of Ethiopia has repetedely said it for well over a decade: Ethiopia’s
enemy is poverty. So may God almighty/ Allah give Egyptian
polititians the wisdom to live in peace with yourself and with your
neighbours. You have without a shadow of a doubt have a problem with
yourselves. Ethiopians don’t have a problem with you and only wants a
win-win solution for question of the Nile river. 2.
quote…” Makhioun added that Ethiopia had chosen the timing to
begin the construction process “because they know there is
political tension in Egypt…” Unquote. As the late PM of Etiopia
his exellency Meles Zenawi has said it in many interviews and in his
speaches: quote”….You just can not all of a sudden declare that
we are going to start the construction of the Great Ethiopian
Renessance dam becaquse it takes many years only to plan such a huge
project…” unquote. Furthermore PM Meles Zenawi always emphesized
that all Ethiopia wants is a win-win situation. Indeed unless an
individual suffers from Paranoid Schizophrenia one can not give such
a statement. 3. quote ”… Al-Azhar representative Sheikh Hassan
El-Shafei? Said that the Nile does not have wings in the air to fly
to Israel, but it might have underground ones’,” El-Shafei said,
hinting that Ethiopia might use the project to export Nile water to
Israel, with whom it has long enjoyed good relations…” unquote.
This is either his own oppinion or the person suffers also from
delusion and Paranoia. Because in the first place it was the former
President of Egypt Anwar Sadat that promised to divert the Nile to
Israel which he later on changed his opinion. Let it be known that it
is a violation of International law to divert a river to a third
party country. Yes Ethiopia have an excellent diplomatic relationship
with Israel and hope it will always maintains that relationship. I
also hope that Ethiopia will have very good/excellent relationships
with all the peace loving nations of the world. Egytian politicians
seem to forget that after the Camp David agreement which President
Sadat and Israels President Menahim Begin signed the peace treaty
Egypt and Israel have had diplomatic and a non-problematic/good
relationships ever since which President Morsi also have at least in
his speech reassured the international community that the Egyptian
Israeli relationship will continue without any change.
I urge all those peace loving Egyptians of all walk of life please lend your ears to Mr Mahmoud Salem and read his article and suggestions and realise all his plans.
Thnk you brother Mr Mahmoud Salem

M. Amanuel. L. MD. Phd

Inshalah; it is good to know that there are some Egyptians that understand the situation and try to establish good neighborhood. We Ethiopians are doing the same. We all should not forget that the water belongs to every one that has been using it; and millions of lives are dependent on it for survival. Nile should not be a source of conflict; rather a symbol of friendship, a common pool that binds people together. the best way to deal when there is discrepancy of water use must be new form of dialogue and spirit. Egyptians should understand that our land supplies around 86% of the flow. would it be, then, fair to say Ethiopians cannot use it even for turning a turbine???? is i really fair???? is it really fair to create unrest in Ethiopia (like the Egyptian politicians said)?? I am so sad to learn the way the Egyptian politicians (and some Egyptians) hate Ethiopia. With that in mind…still, I believe there is always an option-the best option…..dialogue and peace!!!!!

Mr Salem has to be an ‘ exception’ for his ‘ sanity’ is beyond doubt! I just can’t believe Mr Morsi went ahead with a ‘ gathering’ of ‘ hoodlums’ to demonize Ethiopia, whose water has been nourishing Egypt for thousands of year. In every Egyptian blood, flows waters cascading from the Abyssinian Highlands, whether it is to his or her liking. When all is said and done, Ethiopia can’t possibly use the waters of the Blue Nile, which makes up about 85% of the water entering Aswan Dam, not because it has no wishes, but the topography doesn’t allow it, Has Mr Morsi or any of the ‘ talking heads’ visited the Canyons of the Blue Nile? I doubt it very much. There lies the ‘ fact’. There is no way one can possibly irrigate any portion of the land along the massive canyon along the gorges of the Nile. However, given the animosity and utter racist and condescending attitude of Egyptians, we will figure some way to tamper with it. I betcha we can approach an Israeli scientist to invent a way to suck the water from its natural course without the knowledge of any one of the Morsi’s Gang of blabber mouths beneath the surface and fill in our water tables all across our enormous Nation.. Lucky you, we are compassionate and God-fearing.

Mr salem puts a nice suggestion. To me it is necessary for Egyptians and Ethiopians to collaborate in activities that increase the amount of water rather than destabilizing the region. Here, it is impossible to deny a country that contributes 85% share of the water to use and also it is immoral or inappropriate a country with 90 million of population no right to water.What i want to suggest is Egyptian don not beat your drum of of war and let talk together on common ground.

Personally, I am really happy to see such a person who is able to see beyond his political and social boundaries. We know that Egypt is one of the sources of knowledge which contributed much for human kind to reach where it is now. But sometimes we see society progressing downwards. You assured that Egyptians are progressing positively. I hope to see many Egyptians like you.

Ethiopia is not in a condition to go against any once interest. We are here struggling with poverty. Even though we are endowed with natural resource, we didn’t benefit a little form it. THERE is no such thing like ‘HISTORIC RIGHT’. Human history is full of biases, injustice, exploitation… THAT IS WHY WE AFRICANS spent many of our years in the 20th century fighting with evils like Slavery, Colonialism, Racism, Dictatorship, Poverty, Hunger, Disease, Backwardness, and Civil War…. This is our history. There is no any way that we let our past history guide the PRESENT AFRICA. WE DON’T ACCEP a history of exploitation. Come up with acceptable arguments like the once raised in this article.

I hope Egypt also shares this story with all of us. I don’t expect them to act like the ‘Colonizers’ because they have concurred Sudan during Muhammad Ali Pasha reign. IT IS THIME TO THINK BEYON BOUNDARIES, to feel the pain of other brother, to come up with valuable argument and win-win solution. We don’t expect Egyptians to go far to hurt us and get nothing in return, while we are begging for cooperation which could benefit both of us. Ethiopians know that Egypt leaders has been doing many evils behind the curtain for centuries ‘in the dream called ‘controlling the Nile valley’, but we don’t want to be reminded that. We have many jobs to be done at HOME.

This one is by far the best material I’ve ever read on this topic. Even the atittude of the writer is not like most of the people writing on the subject from either side. Ethiopia and Egypt have more lasting interests that they can build on win-win framwork, than lasting antagonism. And infact it’s up to the citizens of the two nations to sketch their common future.

I personnally appreciate Mr Salem for his openions and the ideas he shared with us all.

To Mahmoud Salem

We are short of people like you, look at
that, I raise my hat for you sir, thanks for having a sound mind and
your powerful reasoning,

May I add, building a dam
in Ethiopia will actually raise the condensation level and cloud
formation, being in the proximity of the highland will increase the
Nile water by few percent. that is a fact.

we could in fact do a
mathematical model for how many dams we need to build to raise the Blue
Nile water level to some expectation. the relation ship is intact.

Egypt is experiencing water shortage now, what is the plan for
the 20 years or so, whose fault is it going to be, for the shortage of
sorts, when the population growth goes with this rate?

The Egyptian leaders should not squander this opportunity to work with Ethiopia.

This is really an opportunity for Egypt.

You see, now we are talking. Now we can talk with our egyptian brothers
on issues that matter for the basin population at large. We understand
the importance of the Nile waters for Egypt/Sudan, we understand it
even better when Egypt/Sudan also understand the level of poverty and
hunger in the Ethiopian highlands. We understand it even better when
Egypt also understand the importance of hydroelectric energy for
Ethiopia. We understand it even better when Egypt/Sudan also understand
the vulnerability of the fishermen in the Sudd Swamps in South Sudan. We
understand it better when Egypt/Sudan also understand and be
considerate for the population in the lake victoria basin.

Why
are we unable to develop a way for the benefit of all the basin
population! Egyptian politicians just talk about the population rise in
egypt – what about the rest of the population in the upstream basin
countries? Is it decreasing in Ethiopia or Uganda? There are more people
upstream than downstream! Or does the black african population not
count for the Nile waters? Really? So the black african population can
starve, die of famine, immigrate, fight, live on aid, whatever . .just
as long as they donot tamper with the Nile waters, eh? is that
Egypt’s/Sudan’s foreign policy with respect to the Nile waters?

So
Egypt is the ‘gift of the Nile’ while the rest of the basin population
is just annoying mass that should only be handled with military muscles.
Really? Can Egypt really sustain itself like that with all the upstream
african countries? Drinking african waters but then treating africans
in such condescending way by letting them starve and not letting them
even touch it? Who gave Egypt that right? Colonial Masters who wanted
more cotton for their empires? the Pharaos? or american jets? It is
time to stop and contemplate!

Nonetheless, it is very hopeful to
meet thoughtful and realistic brothers from across the sahara (like
the writer of this blog). Watching the Egyptian politicians talking and
planning all the doomsday scenarios on Ethiopia was actually a proof of
how Egypt sees the rest of Africa. We have learnt! We know the thought
process of well respected politicans in Egypt very well now, with a
proof.

Egyptian foreign policy of messing around the horn of
Africa has to stop for its own better!!! It has shed lots of blood
already. It has to stop! STOP BLEEDING THE HORN OF AFRICA! Otherwise,
bad blood and human misery has bad karma – it will haunt you!!! Africa
is now AWAKE , Africa is RISING – whether you like it or not – so the
earlier you wake up, the better!

Wow , its so interesting , Mr Mahmoud Salem , you are a true Egyptian Citizen. To add my opinion on the issue of the Nile river , these days Ethiopia almost completed 20% of the construction of the Great Renaissance Dam and the most significant part of the construction , which is diverting the natural path of the river is already completed. The idea of constructing such huge dam was raised not because of our interest on the river but because of our development strategy and the need of power in our economy is increased so much and has to be supported by such a large amount of power supply . Actually , we were supposed to built the dam long before these days , but you know there were different factors , you might Guss what was it , we couldn’t do it till now .We think that this is the right time to built the dam with out any financial support from out side , we can built it by our finance and knowledge support and most importantly, we need power more that any time in the past and I also believe that , constructing the dam will not hurt Egypt’s interest and also any of the dawn stream regions. These is there for , it is better for both of us using the water responsibly rather than creating some hidden agendas like those Egyptian political parties did for the last few days.This will not help the people of both countries and the the world as a whole . Tanks again Mr Mahmoud Salem.

Dear my Egyptian brothers and sisters!
You are born and grownup in Ethiopian soil and water. The Blue Nile has
provided you a million tons of fertile soil by eroding the highlands of
Ethiopia each year and feeding you for centuries. The world’s number one fertile region of the delta has benefiting you from the soil originated from Ethiopia. Do you perceive we are from the same soil and water, share the same culture and religions? The Nile is the ‘natural’ gift for all the down and upstream countries. For centuries, the Egyptians and Sudanese have been used the total share of the river endorsed by the colonial era in 1929 and 1959 by neglecting other countries. Though more than 85% of the Nile flow from Ethiopia highlands, the colonial treaty of sharing the water kept Ethiopia aside and gave total share to Egypt and Sudan. It was unfair and injustice therefore unacceptable by any means.

At current scenario, because of the climate change and ever-increasing population (91.2 million and estimated to be over 139 million by 2030), Ethiopia also expected to encounter and faces a water shortage and scarcity. This is a reality by this time. Therefore, Ethiopian has the natural and legal rights of using the Blue Nile for her development in order to trap-out millions from absolute poverty and overcome the challenges that imposed by climate change. To be honest and frank of Egyptian brothers and sisters , no power can halting and distracting us from the building of GERD and other planned development projects in the near future on the Blue Nile and its tributaries. It is better die as health and wealth than being poor.

Nevertheless, the water of the Nile is enough for all of us. Ethiopia has begun to erect the GERD on Blue Nile is aimed totally for the production of Electric Power. It is build near the Sudan border and the country has no irrigable land in that area. After generating a power the water
continue its natural course and reached Sudan and Egypt with equal volume even at more regulated manner throughout the dry and rainy seasons. On the top, Egypt should have to also do her homework in the near future rather than seeking and running for maintaining ‘the old and unacceptable’ share of Nile’s water. Egypt is one of the most profligate users of water in the world. A lot of water is wasted in the desert for the production of rice and wheat and recreation industries. They have to develop and adopt efficient irrigation practices. The world is a witness for the malpractices of Egyptians on scarce water resource. Finally, win–win, mutual understanding and trust are a big solution for both sisterly countries than mourning for war. War may cost both countries
a lot. We Ethiopian are aware of the cost of the war than any other countries in the world. Try to think again and again and advice those politicians that mongering war day and night in the African continent…..War may be a temporary solution. Don’t also be undermining the current status of Ethiopia. Ethiopia is advanced in military. Above all, you have to refer the history of Ethiopia during the war aggression from outside. Though we are varying in Ethnic, culture and religious, ideology, etc., we are keeping one in protecting our national sovereignty. It is ridiculously big greediness while the Egyptian is playing with bread and the counterpart Ethiopians is watching a free game!

Let me make myself
clear.First of all the IMF must be very careful by lending money to
fundamentalists, fanatics and lunatics all over the world. I don’t
think the IMF dominated by the EU is aware of today’s Egyptian
politians andv many in the opposition group are nothing but Wolves in
sheeps clothes’s. The IMF that has taken a negative stance concerning
even much smaller loans to Sub-Saharan African countries is making
preparations to accomodate the illegal Islamist government to provide
it with a long term cheap loan worth of $ (€) to Egypt whichn is
not only a miscarriage of democracy, plurality, justice, freedom and
racism. When Many African countries and in particular Ethiopia aked
for a loan from the IMF, the IMF have always turned a blind eye was
deaf and mute to their pleadge. Allow me to express the facts in
short: The past is the prent and the present is the future. It seems
that Europe is still stcked in it’s Imperialistic/ racisitic
(=fascisitic) policy where in many European countries there still
remains an opinion that ”colonialism was the good thing that have
happened to African countries). Mind you this is a very large number
of people in present Europe that still believe in this absurd
assertion. For what? For what?: For trading in African human flesh?;
for the mass genocide of Africans by Europeans?; For getting reach
out of the free labour of African Nations for well over 450 years??
For raping African women for v450 years?. For What???. I can correct
European stupid ”wisdom” or saying which says that: ” A wise
man learns from his own mistakes”. I say as an African that A wise
man/women learns from other peoples mistakes, A Stupid man/women
learns from other peoples mistakes; And, it is only an imbesil and an
idiot that don’t even learn from his/her mistakes.
What Egypt desperately needs today is not loan but a geniune democraticcoalition government with visionary, wise, peaceloving and mentally healthy political leadears. And, that can be achieved by holding a new transparent election in the presence of the International
community. Then After the election Egypt can form a coalition
government that consists of the opposition leaders including Mr.
Mohamed ElBaradei (holding high position in the government apparatus)
and others like him and visionary intellectuals like Mr Mahmoud
Salem as well as indipendent Christian and Women politicians in the
government. Inorder to promote peace and stability in the reageon
the International community including the IMF have both the
responsibility and the moral obligation for this. As it has already been made public from the live televised positions of
Egytian politicians they also have clearely stated in the meeting
under the chairmanship of President Morsi that: 1.
quote ”…Younas Makhioum, Chairman of Al-Nour part… WE Israel
and the U.S which are behind the construction of the Great Ethiopian
Reinessance Dam= GERD and will use it as lethal…(unaudiable)
bargaining chip to pressure Egypt….bla bla…bla…and so and so we
shall practice Interventionalism by supporting ”rebel groupsthat
belong to the Oromo and the Ogaden liberation front…….The
domestic Ethiopian front is very weak and fragile…we can resort to
our intellegence agencies to destroy the GERD Dam…” unquote. The
IMF has been supporting Egypt and boycoting Etiopia but despite this
fact Ethiopia have crashed both terrorist organisations to a point of
non excistance. 2. Aman
Nour. Chairman , Ghad Al- Thawra party ”…The need is not an
Embassy but a task force that will deal with politics and
intellegence so that we can interfere in their domestic affairs….”.
Does this imbessile have any idea that Ethiopia today have a highely
qualified secret service that an handel even thougher conditiopns
than his suggestion?. 3. Muhammed
Anwar Essmat Al- Sadat Chairman of Reform and Development party.
Quote. ” …We shall form an axis with Eritrea, Somalia and
Djibouti intellegence agencies inorder to destroy the GERD Dam…”
unquote. This another debil is out of touch. First of all which
Somalia is he talking about?: Somaliland? Puntland? Or Somalia of
Mogadishu. The last one as far as I know is supported by Ethiopia and
the AU to seriousely be engaged in rebuilding their country and if
Egypt manages to turn the table upside down by supporting Al Quaida
affliated Al Shabab then it will definately complicate the issue for
Egypt itself and the gallant and heroic Ethiopian Military Defence
Foces will be back within days and mow the fundamentalists once
again. And I don’t think this time around the mighty U.S.A will be
relactant to give modern armaments like Patriot missiles, fighter
jets like F-16 and or F-18 Hornets for self defence because it will
also be in the best interest of the interests of the U.S.A and it is
also a question of National security interset of the mighty U.S.A. 4.
Muhahammed Ahmed Hussein,
Chairman ióf Islamic Labour party. Quote ”… I am very fond of
battle (Mein Kampf or the dead usama bin ladin???) with the enemies
of course- with America and Israel…..Our war is with America and
Israel…” unquote. Here once again I want to ask the International
community and the IMF: What the hell are you doing and don’t you feel
any responsibility for regional and International peace?. When you
have always been so quick to reject even smaller loans for
Sub-Saharan Africa and for economical stability and development of
Ethiopia in particular, you are in a hurry like before to give
exactely the amount it asked knowing about ALL the above facts.
Furthermore, Germany’s decission to sell to Egypt a destryer
(nuclear?) submarine is totally irresponssible. Lastely. 5.
President Morsi said: quote
”… We have very serious measures to protect every single drop of
Nile water….Every Single Drop…” unquote.
President Morsi all Ethiopia wants is her God given right of equitable share of water in a win win solution. You must understand that Ethiopia have the right to use Abay= the Blue Nile both for electricity production
and irrigation.1. In
fact Egypt, Sudan and their supporters and financiers must have payed
for the death of millions of Ethiopians because of draught and famine
in the midest of abundant Abay= Blue nile water resources since
Ethiopia was sabotaged and boycouted by the above. 2.
Egypt must have already payed a war compensation for trying to
destabilise Ethiopia but wants to continue to destabilise Ethiopia.
3. Why don’t Egypt
start investing in dasallination plants in her Red Sea cost and 4.
Why don’t Egypt start drilling and utilizing her underground water
reserves.
Peace between Ethiopia and Egypt can only be achieved through mutual respect and dialog as well as Egypt and Sudan accepting the God given rights to use Abay=the Blue Nile both for electricity production and
irrigation. Let it be known that Ethiopia’s projects on Abay is
recognised by the international community. Any rhetoric short of that
will never achieve the intended goal of a win-win solution on the
contrary will only lead to extremely dangerous situations. And, if
Ethiopia is in anyway even disturbed to accomplish every project in
the pipeline. Rest assured there are so many knowledgable specialists
in physics and chemistry in Ethiopia that can easely use a nuclear
matterial and others with which Ethiopia is blessed with and
continuesely contaminate the water. President Morsi river water don’t
flow downwards it flows downwards. In other words if Egyptian
politicians will continue thie Evil plans aganist Ethiopia and if
Ethiopia can not get an equitable watershare of its own Abay and use
it then Ethiopians without the consent of the central government will
individually have the responsibility and obligation to do just that
and Egypt will never be able to use the Nile river at least for the
next 100 years if not for 150 years. Catastrophic don’t you think so?
But without a shadow of a doubt doeble very easily. Ethiopians are
NOT going to die because of famine, their life expectancy shortened
and live theier lives in darkness anymore. Enough is Enough.

Thank you

M.Amanuel.L MD, Phd

Thank you Mahmoud Salem for this article. The time for war and backward thinking is over.War will only slow our economy only and cause for us to lose such precious lives of both Egypt and Ethiopia. This mad thinking is over and i still see some old politicians who are left overs from that time when people used to think like that but no more. The youth now is educated and holds bright future for Africa. The youth can think logically and bring about a productive solution that benefits all with wise leaders from both countries.The technology and the science is not hidden from anybody, let the Egyptians water specialists come and see what we are working on.Let them help us in making the dam beneficial to both Egypt and Ethiopia.Our late P.M. had a great vision. He hated poverty so much and wanted to change it hence the reason We are in war with poverty and changing the lives of poor Ethiopians and Africans as a whole along with every one of our brothers and sisters in the continent. We will work together with our brothers and sisters and change the lives of many Africans and Africa will no longer be a poor continent.This is my view and the view of many Ethiopians.

Wow Mr Salem I am impressed by your insight, courage and vision. You are the voice of the voiceless not only in Egypt but in all Africa and middle east where politicians think of war instead of working together. We all knew that this is an old strategy to divert the national attention but with brilliant mind like you Africa will not entertain war monger leaders any more. Thanks man.

First of all we need to learn how to save water on an individual level. Look around and notice how Egyptians waste huge amounts of water watering plants in the public/private gardens, clubs etc. I had to teach my cleaning lady to turn the tap off whenever she does not actually need water in the bathroom and/or kitchen. She would not be disturbed in the least by water running freely from the open tap while she would walk away for good 10 minutes! In Europe people pay water very very expensive and everyone is extremely careful while washing dishes or taking showers. People in Egypt need to be educated through their homes, schools, TV programming etc. to realize that they only have this ONE river to supply water for 92 mil. inhabitants. When we start caring on the individual level, caring as a society will follow automatically.

@Mr. Salem, You are a wise man unlike Mursi’s staffs.

Good lesson for all human being. We all World Citizens lets do right thing to make world better place to all.Thank you Mr.Salem for brilliant advice.

Egyptians should not trust the fascist Ethiopian government, this country is a reason why both its neighbors Eritrea and Somalia are under the constant threat of invasion and destruction. The ethiopian government will indeed use this dam to express its power further in the region. THIS DAM IS NOT FOR IRRIGATION OR FARMLAND FOR THE “POOR STARVING AIDS INFESTED ETHIOPIANS”, its too further embolden the current government image and strategic interests. Ethiopia is a sick country, that has been meddling and destabilizing most of its neighboring countries and egypt should not let it get the upperhand. Just look at the somalis in the Ogaden region of ethiopia that have been murdered and forgotten.

African people support egypt, not fascist ethiopia which does not care if its people starve or are illiterate. Ethiopia is two faced and cannot be trusted, it has been supporting warlords and secessionist groups in somalia to weaken and divide it, the same in eritrea! They even invaded somalia after its 20 year long civil war ended, now there are al qaeda groups opperating there, thanks alot ethiopia!!!!!!!

Thank you what a positive view

Be rational