{"id":278863,"date":"2019-06-13T18:03:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T22:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiRWh0dHBzOi8vYm9ya2VuYS5jb20vMjAxOS8wNi8xMy9yZW5haXNzYW5jZS1kYW0tb3V0bGV0cy1waXBlLXJlcGxhY2VkL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:15:15","slug":"borkena-said-gerd-outlet-pipes-were-being-replaced-as-a-quality-check-before-the-2020-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278863","title":{"rendered":"Borkena said GERD outlet pipes were being replaced as a quality check before the 2020 deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 13 June 2019 Borkena reported that outlet pipes at Ethiopia\u2019s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam were being removed and replaced as a quality-assurance step while the project still aimed to meet a 2020 completion deadline.<\/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=\"Borkena said GERD outlet pipes were being replaced as a quality check before the 2020 deadline\" \/>\n<p>The short construction update treated the pipe work as a technical milestone on the Blue Nile dam rather than as a new political claim about filling or power sales.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as dam-engineering archive, the Borkena note dates a mid-2019 quality check on GERD\u2019s outlet works.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/borkena.com\/2019\/06\/13\/renaissance-dam-outlets-pipe-replaced\/\">Borkena<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia : Renaissance Dam outlet pipes to be replaced&nbsp;&nbsp;borkena.comAs Ethiopia&#8217;s Renaissance Dam progress to meet completion deadline in 2020, outlets pipes are removed as part of quality assurance measure. Read more.<\/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-278863","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-1axN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278863","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=278863"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755216,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278863\/revisions\/755216"}],"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=278863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}