{"id":278794,"date":"2019-06-13T01:31:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T05:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMieWh0dHA6Ly93d3cuZnV0dXJlZGlyZWN0aW9ucy5vcmcuYXUvcHVibGljYXRpb24vdGhlLWdyYW5kLWV0aGlvcGlhbi1yZW5haXNzYW5jZS1kYW0tcG93ZXItZm9yLWV0aGlvcGlhLWRpc2FzdGVyLWZvci1lZ3lwdC_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-28T11:31:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:31:57","slug":"future-directions-said-gerd-was-central-to-ethiopias-power-plans-but-less-catastrophic-for-egypt-than-feared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278794","title":{"rendered":"Future Directions said GERD was central to Ethiopia\u2019s power plans but less catastrophic for Egypt than feared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 13 June 2019 Future Directions International published Mervyn Piesse\u2019s analysis of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, arguing that GERD was central to Ethiopia\u2019s economic and political development strategy because it promised electricity for industry and greater control over Blue Nile flow.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-277392\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Koysha-Hydroelectric-project-workers-voice-grievances.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Future Directions said GERD was central to Ethiopia\u2019s power plans but less catastrophic for Egypt than feared\" \/>\n<p>The paper said Egypt\u2019s water worries were real, yet Nile flow was already growing more erratic and Egypt\u2019s food import dependence would deepen with or without the dam, while GERD\u2019s power output was also unlikely to match the loftiest early Ethiopian claims or to harm Egypt as severely as some Egyptian officials had first feared.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as water and geopolitics archive, the Future Directions paper dates a mid-2019 Australian strategic reading of GERD\u2019s risks and limits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futuredirections.org.au\/publication\/the-grand-ethiopian-renaissance-dam-power-for-ethiopia-disaster-for-egypt\/\">Future Directions International<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: Power for Ethiopia, Disaster for Egypt?&nbsp;&nbsp;Future Directions InternationalKey Points. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is an integral part of the Ethiopian economic and political development strate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":277392,"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-278794","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\/05\/Koysha-Hydroelectric-project-workers-voice-grievances.jpg?fit=475%2C266&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1awG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278794","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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278794"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755144,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278794\/revisions\/755144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}