Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Versus Aswan High Dam: A View from Egypt

ISBN-13: 9783319955995 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 594 str.

Abdelazim M. Negm; Sommer Abdel-Fattah

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Overviews  of Aswan High Dam (AHD) and Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).- Environmental Impacts of AHD On Egypt Between The Last and The Following 50 Years.- Importance of  Aswan High Dam to Egypt.- Impacts of Constructing the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile River.- Stochastic Investigation of the GERD-AHD Interaction Through First Impoundment and Beyond.- Model-Based Optimization for Operating the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile River.- GERD Failure Analysis and The Impacts on Downstream Countries.- Environmental Impacts of the GERD Project on Egypt’s Aswan High Dam Lake and Mitigation and Adaptation options.- The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Agriculture and the Rural Poor in Egypt.- Assessment of Sediment Deposition in High Aswan Dam Reservoir During 50 Years (1964-2014).- Evaluation of Merowe Dam’s Effect on The Accumulated Sediment In Lake Nubia, Sudan Using RS/GIS.- Impacts of GERD on the Accumulated Sediment in Lake Nubia Using Machine Learning and GIS Techniques.- Dredging the Clays of the Nile – Potential Challenges and Opportunities on the Shores of the Aswan High Dam Reservoir and the Nile Valley in Egypt.- Community Development by De-silting the Aswan High Dam Reservoir.- Harvesting the Skies of Egypt – an Option to Recover the Evaporation Losses from the Aswan High Dam Reservoir.- Impact of the International Context on the Political and Legal Dimensions of the Aswan High Dam (1952-1960).- Continuous Dispute Between Egypt and Ethiopia Concerning Nile Water and Mega Dams.- The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the Ethiopian Challenge of Hydropolitical Hegemony on the Nile Basin.- Impact of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on Gezira Groundwater, Sudan.- Update, Conclusions and Recommendation of Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Versus Aswan High Dam: a View from Egypt.

Blurb

This unique volume discusses various aspects of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and the Aswan High Dam (AHD) including their positive and negative impacts. It presents up-to-date research findings by Egyptian scientists and researchers covering several interesting hot topics under the following main themes:

·       Major impacts of GERD compared with the AHD

·       Environmental impacts of the AHD

·       Modeling scenarios investigating the impacts of GERD on the AHD and downstream

·       Environmental and social impacts of GERD on Egypt

·       Status and assessment of the sediment of the AHD reservoir and modeling the impacts of GERD on Lake Nubia sediment accumulation

·       Proposed scenarios for maximizing the benefits of the AHD reservoir

·       International aspects of GERD and the AHD

The volume also offers a set of conclusions and recommendations to optimize the cooperation between Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia. It appeals to postgraduate students, researchers, scientists, professionals and policy planners.