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The old colonial treaty split the waters 85-15 between Egypt and Sudan ignoring all the other African countries. This is completely unsustainable, the poor uptream countries must have their share.

Egypt just needs to use desalinization and water saving methods like other ME states.

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The problem revolves around the filling duration. 3 years is way too fast for the downstream. thirsting the downstream is hardly ever a solution.

If only Egypt would realize that and cooperate with the upstream countries, or more specifically, Ethiopia. They could easily mitigate the issue with money, but they believe they have an ancient colonial right to command their neighboring countries.

Nobody said it would fill in 3 years. The stated number of years is from 4 to 7.

well Egypt is the downstream country in this case..

Oops. I did know that, but my fingers did not. Thanks, I edited the original.

Rivers that flow northward mess up all of our brains a little bit,.

Apparently it was the reverse for the Ancient Egyptians when they marched into the Middle East, encountered the Euphrates and were shocked to find a river flowing South.

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