Water Conflicts - Ethiopia Flashcards
Which damming project has intensified potential conflict in Ethiopia?
Gilgel Gibe III Dam 2015
River Omo
What are the characteristics of the Gilgel Gibe?
$1.83b construction
Holds 14.7b cubic meters
Affects roughly 300,000 people
What are the arguments in favour of the dam?
Electricity + power provision
Only 1/3 have sufficient electricity
Ability to double electricity output
Potential for major electricity exports
What are the arguments against dam construction?
Starves downstream settlements
Disrupts tribes
Ignorance of regulations
Compounds national debt
Why did the IMF + World Bank not fund the project?
Lack of transparency
No competitive tenders project
When was the enviromental impacts survey carried out?
2017
2 years after constrution
What were the views of national stakeholders?
State owned firms benefit from farming + irrigation projects
Scientists fear rapid shrinkage
Govt. forcibly displaced communities
What did UK + US development agencies report?
Egregious human rights violations
What were the views of locals?
Indigenous communities starved
Local industries halted
Tribes driven into conflict
How many rely on the River Omo for subsistence agriculture?
200,000
