Sources at the Ministry of Irrigation have called for the establishment of a legal committee mandated with "preserving Egypt’s historical right to Nile water" and "restoring Egypt's leading role in the Nile Basin."
The same sources warned that Ethiopia planned to build four new dams on the Nile in addition to the planned Tekeze Dam (which will store up to 30 billion cubic meters of water) and the Border Dam (which will store 14 billion cubic meters of water). These new dams, the sources warned, could constitute a threat to Egypt’s water security.
The sources also said that the ministry’s Nile water department had "no information" about these proposed projects except what it had read in the newspapers. "This means that Egypt has failed in handling this file," sources said.
The same sources also called for stepped-up cooperation with Ethiopia and the new nation of South Sudan in regard to water projects.
Any new agreement having to do with Nile water quotas must be ratified by at least six Nile Basin states in order to be considered internationally binding.
Translated from the Arabic Edition.
