Sharaqi added that Egypt is rivers without water and South Sudan is water without rivers, and he continued: “The rains of Aswan or Sudan do not add anything noteworthy to the Nile’s revenue, which comes from two main sources: the first is Ethiopia, 85%, and the second is the Lake Victoria region, 15%. Sudan, South Sudan, or Egypt do not contribute to the annual revenue of the Nile, and the rainfall does not add anything noteworthy to the Nile.”
He pointed out that “Egypt has very little rain, as it is the first country in the world in terms of scarcity of rain, and what sometimes falls in the form of floods is rare and irregular. As for South Sudan, its rain is more than Ethiopia in the Nile Basin, about 800 billion m3, as it is abundant and forms swamps, among the largest swamps in the world, due to the lack of rivers that transport water.”
“The most important problem in South Sudan is the abundant water supply, unlike Egypt, which has many rivers but without water called valleys or flood beds. As for Sudan, the rainfall reaches more than 200 billion cubic meters, but some of it is far from the Nile River basin, and what is close cannot be tolerated by the rivers in Sudan, especially the White Nile, which is currently only 4 meters deep, and the flood beds and side rivers such as Dinder and Rahad are also shallow in depth and have many twists, which causes most of the water to be lost,” Sharaqi said.
He concluded: “Despite all of this, Egypt’s water future to increase the annual share lies in benefiting from the losses in South Sudan by establishing artificial rivers such as the Jonglei Canal, which has not yet been completed, as well as developing some rivers inside Sudan.”
Source: RT
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2024-08-04 17:35:07
