The regulated flow of water from the Renaissance dam will improve agriculture and the impact from evaporation of water from the dam will be minimal compared with other dams in Ethiopia, which will help in water conservation.
It will also reduce approximately 40km of flooding in Sudan, upon its completion. The dam will be capable of handling a flood of 19,370 cubic metres per second, will reduce alluvium in Sudan by 100 million cubic metres and also facilitate irrigation of around 500,000ha of new agricultural lands. “The planning phase of the project was carried out under a name called Project X, which was later changed to Millennium Dam.” Ethiopian Renaissance dam power and water capabilitiesĪimed primarily at generating power, with an expected capacity of 6,000MW, the main and saddle dams will also create reservoirs with an impounding capacity of 74 billion cubic metres. Egypt depends on the Nile for 90% of its water needs.Ī tripartite committee was formed in January 2012 to promote understanding and look into the benefits and impacts the project would have on the three countries. Egypt has for a long time held the major ownership of the water from the Nile River and prevented Ethiopia from constructing a dam. The reservoir and dam will offer major benefits to Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan. Approximately 20,000 people will be resettled during the course of the project. The dam’s construction is expected to create up to 12,000 jobs. The latter two countries depend on the Nile River for their water although 85% of the river flows in Ethiopia. The people and Government of Ethiopia are funding the project, which will not only serve Ethiopia, but Sudan and Egypt as well. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam project is expected to be completed by July 2017. “A tripartite committee was formed in 2012 to promote understanding and look into the benefits and impacts the project would have on the three countries.”Ĭonstruction of the Grand Renaissance Dam started in April 2011 after the ETB80bn ($4.7bn) engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract was awarded to Salini Costruttori.
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