The High Nile Water Commission, which is headed by Prime Minister Hazem al-Beblawy, in its meeting on Sunday with the ministers of transport, agriculture, planning, foreign affairs, water resources and irrigation, stressed the importance of mutual benefit from the Renaissance Dam.
Egypt and Sudan fear the dam, which Ethiopia started building in 2011, might affect their quotas of Nile water that were determined in an agreement signed during the British occupation before the Nile Basin countries signed another agreement in 2010 for a fair redistribution of the water.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
