Upcoming rainy season promising to fill GERD
Ethiopia would take advantages over upcoming and promising rainy season to secure the 13.5 billion cubic meters for the second filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) , A Water Engineer said.
Colombia University Water Engineer Tirusew Assefa (Ph.D) told local media that as to this year ‘s weather forecast, rainfall amount has shown average increase of about 150 to 200 percent than the usual minimum amount of water needed to accomplish the mission successfully.
He added that the second round filling of the GERD will have no effect on the downstream countries; instead it will solve the problem of flood that may happen to Sudan. The weather forecast clearly indicated that the second phase filling will have no cause no significant harm to the downstream countries, Tirusew explained.
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