Africa’s $5BN Megadam Will Block the Nile

This dam is absolutely huge.

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[Kodakcompactdisc]

Now when someone asks me how big London is I can say it’s roughly the same size of the reservoir behind the grand Ethiopian renaissance dam, handy.

[MatthewFTabor]

"So large it has its own classification." I can't be the only person who expected them to call it a "God-dam." It was a huge, approximately London-size letdown when they just called it a "mega-dam."

[GAMBANJUJJJ]

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[Vok]

This will be great for Fallout New Africa.

[ncubesays]

As an African viewer, it's really cool to see you cover this. I was in Addis, the capital in 2021, spent a day exploring it on their new metro system and was blown away by the massive infrastructure developments in the city.

[DCTriv]

I hope this project goes well and all parties can come to agreement. It would be terrible to see such an impressively scaled infrastructure project lead to conflict.

[petualangkpgseromah]

The same happen to mekong river, got dry out in the dry season.massive china dam blocked 50% the water flow down

[mlafi]

Massive Tree planting needs to be undertaking in the Nile basin region to avert catastrophe should a drought hit.

[radootoorcan]

So not the dam, but the reservoir is the “size of London”.

[jonathanm]

When you revisit this at it's completion, I'd wager It'll look more like a fortress, festooned with Surface to Air missile batteries and guard towers.

[themostlymikeshow]

Ha ha! I lost it when that guy said "mega what?"

[dorcasbutler]

As a half Egyptian half Ethiopian person the conflict is quite intense. Hope it can all be resolved in a peaceful manner.

[MUSTASCHO]

Would have been interesting to hear if there are any ecological consequences to such an enormous dam on one of the world's most important rivers.

[MeMyself-jzms]

After a long tedious technical explanation about how dams are made where we learn very little we didn’t already know, there’s just one sentence at the end to cover the massive issue of the potential negative impact of this dam environmentally, politically and socio-economically for the whole of the NE Africa region downstream of the dam. That’s where the real story lies here.

[AB-ixyg]

"Frankly my dear, I don't give a mega-dam" (sorry I couldn't resist that)!

[darrellm]

Sounds like Egypt is in de-Nile😂

Thank you folks! I'm here all week.

[rodolphendessabeka]

Quick correction on your map. The Blue Nile starts in Ethiopia and carries its waters into the Nile River proper at Khartoum by joining another tributary, the White Nile.

[randyca]

This guy sounds like an AI of Simon Whistler.

[trigun]

As an Egyptian and seeing how badly we pollute and destroy the nile, only slightly conflicted

[RobertsDigital]

From Nigeria's biggest oil refinery in all of Africa to Ethiopia's biggest dam in all of Africa...
Keep it up Africa.
Greetings from Nigeria to our Ethiopian brothers💚❤. Keep up the good work.
Lets continue to develop.