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In my last blog post, I wrote about water management in transboundary countries. The challenges lie in the fact that all neighboring countries have rights of availability but can use them differently and thus disadvantage other countries. Today I will look at the Nile basin, which contains ten countries. Nile River basin There were some key transboundary water agreements in 1966 (Helsinki Rules), 1997 (UN Convention) and 2009 (Law of Transboundary Aquifers) (Thompson, 2019). When I try to summarize this, the laws ensure sustainable and balanced use. But it isn’t that easy. The disagreements are mainly between Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt. More than 300 million people rely on Niles water. In 2011 Ethiopia launched a 4.8 billion project called Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam (GERD), close to the Sudanian border ( TRT World ). GERD The dam shall solve the problems of food and water insecurity and energy shortage in Ethiopia and the neighbouring area. Belonging that Ethiopia ha