As the dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia over the latter’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam dam was raging, the former was lobbying other Nile Basin countries to find alternative ways to maintain the volume of water flowing down to the Aswan Dam.
The alternative was found in South Sudan. It turns out that in the middle of the dam controversy, Egypt and South Sudan signed a “secret” agreement to dredge the Nile River tributaries in Unity State, to divert 4.8 million cubic metres of water annually downstream to Sudan and Egypt, an increase of around five to seven percent of the latter’s current volumes.
