The Professor of Geology and Water Resources at Cairo University, Abbas Sharaky, said there is a high probability of flooding on both sides of the Blue Nile and the Nile rivers near the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, at the end of August, similar to before the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
Sharaky explained in a Facebook post that the dam’s reservoir is currently almost full (about 55 billion cubic meters) and has not been used in recent months.
This year’s incident is an exception due to turbine failure at the GERD, he noted, and it is expected that the natural flood of the Blue Nile will be fully discharged by the end of July.
“This disruption in the operation of GERD coincides with the expected increase in rainfall this year, according to IGAD’s climate forecasting and application models for the coming months,” he explained.
Despite the severity of the floods and their damage to some residents in Sudan, he noted that they are the main source of flood irrigation for many farmers along the Blue Nile, compensating them for the lack of water reaching them in the past two years (2023-2024) as a result of the large storage in the GERD of about 43 billion m3 in that period.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
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