Cooperative filling approaches for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
Kevin Wheeler,Mohammed Basheer,Zelalem T. Mekonnen,Sami O. Eltoum,Azeb Mersha,Gamal M. Abdo,Edith Zagona,Jim W. Hall,Simon Dadson +8 more
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In this article, a river basin planning model with a wide range of historical hydrological conditions and increasing coordination between the co-riparian countries was used to analyze the implications of filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and its implications for downstream water resources.Abstract:
Strategies for filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and implications for downstream water resources are analyzed using a river basin planning model with a wide range of historical hydrological conditions and increasing coordination between the co-riparian countries. The analysis finds that risks to water diversions in Sudan can be largely managed through adaptations of Sudanese reservoir operations. The risks to Egyptian users and energy generation can be minimized through combinations of sufficient agreed annual releases from the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, a drought management policy for the High Aswan Dam, and a basin-wide cooperative agreement that protects the elevation of Lake Nasser.read more
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Understanding and managing new risks on the Nile with the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
TL;DR: This analysis illustrates how during filling the HAD reservoir could fall to levels not seen in recent decades, although the risk of water shortage in Egypt is relatively low, and a new normal period after the reservoir fills; and a severe multi-year drought after the filling.
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Quantifying and evaluating the impacts of cooperation in transboundary river basins on the Water-Energy-Food nexus: The Blue Nile Basin.
TL;DR: The results show that theEconomic gain of the Blue Nile Basin from WEF increases with raising the cooperation level between Ethiopia and Sudan to collaboration, however, the economic gain of each riparian country does not necessarily follow the same pattern as the economic loss of the basin.
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SDGs in action: A novel framework for assessing energy projects against the sustainable development goals
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the development and application of the sustainable development goals impact assessment framework for energy projects (SDGs-IAE) for qualitative assessment of SDG target synergies and trade-offs within the context of a given energy project.
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Exploring Cooperative Transboundary River Management Strategies for the Eastern Nile Basin.
Kevin Wheeler,Jim W. Hall,Gamal M. Abdo,Simon Dadson,Joseph R. Kasprzyk,Rebecca Smith,Rebecca Smith,Edith Zagona +7 more
TL;DR: The method demonstrates how improvements to water security for both downstream riparians can be achieved through dynamic adaptation of the operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam during drought conditions and the robustness of potential management arrangements can be evaluated considering potential effects of climate change.
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Filling the GERD: evaluating hydroclimatic variability and impoundment strategies for Blue Nile riparian countries
TL;DR: In this paper, a modelling study is performed to evaluate interannual and decadal-scale streamflow variability into the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) reservoir and comparison of various filling strategies for hydropower and downstream releases to Sudan and Egypt from this dam.
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Hydro-economic risk assessment in the eastern Nile River basin
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provided an independent analysis of the hydrologic and economic risks faced by downstream countries when the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will be online.
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The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: the road to the Declaration of Principles and the Khartoum Document.
TL;DR: The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) as discussed by the authors presented major challenges to the notion of existing rights and uses of the Nile waters asserted by Egypt and Sudan, and Ethiopia succeeded in making the GERD a reality, bolstered four years later, in 2015, by the signature by the three countries of two instruments: the Declaration of Principles and the Khartoum Document.
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Indexed sequential hydrologic modeling for hydropower capacity estimation
TL;DR: The indexed sequential hydrologic modeling (ISM) methodology is utilized by the Western Area Power Administration as the basis for risk-based estimation of project dependable hydropower capacity for several federally owned/operated projects as mentioned in this paper.
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Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam: Implications for Downstream Riparian Countries
TL;DR: In this paper, various filling policies and future climate states are simultaneously explored through a linked set of models (rainfall-runoff, routing, and hydropower) to infer potential streamflow reductions near Sudan's Gezira Scheme, one of the largest irrigated areas in the world, and at Lake N...
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An assessment of reservoir filling policies for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
Andrew D. King,Paul Block +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated filling policies through a climate-sensitivity approach to estimate impacts on reservoir filling time, hydropower production, and downstream flows, and provided viable and timely points of comparison for regional water managers and politicians negotiating system operations.