His parents were among the village's first settlers, moving here three years earlier from the Nile Valley to carve out a new life as farmers. In the past, he and other villagers irrigated their farms through canals linked to the Nile River, Egypt's lifeline since ancient times. For Egyptian farmers, the daunting prospect adds a new worry on top of the other causes of mounting water scarcity. That would be less than the 55 billion cubic meters Egypt usually gets from the Nile, mostly from the Blue Nile. The shortage would be filled by water stored behind Egypt's Aswan High Dam in Lake Nasser, which has a gross capacity of 169 billion cubic meters of water.

Source: Ethiopian News August 20, 2020 12:22 UTC