{"id":259555,"date":"2019-01-03T11:44:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T16:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=2df4e432eed4893599cb9dffef6c0a99"},"modified":"2019-02-08T10:56:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T15:56:19","slug":"egypt-expresses-renewed-concern-over-construction-of-grand-ethiopian-renaissance-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/259555","title":{"rendered":"Egypt expresses renewed concern over construction of Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in Egypt have expressed more concern over the impact that Ethiopia&#8217;s Grand Renaissance Dam would have on their country&#8217;s water supply. Cairo has long expressed fears over water shortage as a result of the dam.<\/p>\n<p>The dam, which would be the largest hydroelectric power plant in Africa, has been under construction since 2011. Since the building of the hydroelectric dam started, Egyptian authorities have voiced concern that it would reduce the water flow of the Blue Nile.<\/p>\n<p>The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam will reportedly be completed in 2022, four years behind schedule. [&#8230;.] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2019\/jan\/2\/egypt-water-anxiety-grows-over-ethiopia-dam-nile\/\">CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt water anxiety grows over Ethiopia dam on Nile&nbsp;&nbsp;Washington TimesAnxiety over water is growing in Egypt as Ethiopian leaders press forward with plans to build a massive dam that officials here fear will block the flow of the Blue &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ethiopian-dam.jpg?fit=744%2C595&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-15wn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259555"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259670,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259555\/revisions\/259670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}