As for Sudan, the dam would bring good news. First, it would avoid the loss of lives and the property that occurs every year when the Nile Blue river floods the surrounding areas in the rainy season. Second, it would transform the irrigation of the sudan crops and, in turn, would improve production yields in areas near the dam. Third, it would also allow Sudan to benefit from cheap electricity that would be produced by the production of 6,000 megawatts of the dam. However, experts in International Water Law such as Ahmed Mufti, a former Sudanese negotiator, believe that in the long -term Sudan would be the most affected if he could not guarantee a long -term water safety agreement through an agreement legally binding on the designated water shared between the three countries.
Currently, Egypt and Sudan are respecting the A1959 agreement assigned 55 billion of the total of 84 billion cubic meters of water to Egypt and 18 billion to Sudan. The agreement also gives the two countries a veto on any upstream development. Ethiopia was never part of that agreement and prolonged negotiations between the ten countries that share the Nile water in 2010 when Egypt and Sudan left the agreement of the entrance. Egypt insists that these water levels should be maintained.
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