# Climate Change Wars: Water - Egypt and Ethiopia

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**Created:** [February 9, 2020, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/climate-change-wars-water-egypt-and-ethiopia/847685 "2020-02-09T20:11:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/climate-change-wars-water-egypt-and-ethiopia/847685/3 "2020-02-09T22:35:46Z")

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> [@DSeid](#):
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> Is there any chance that Egypt won’t blame Ethiopia for them and that conflict won’t break out, such as a strike on the dam? Is there any doubt that when the hot dry hits Ethiopia would use the water for its own desperate needs?

Unlikely. Any strike on the GERD would only temporary hinder Ethiopian hydro-electrical development but it would invite retaliatory strikes to Egyptian infrastructure which would be utterly catastrophic in flood deaths alone (not to mention food/crops/industry/etc). Tough talk aside, Egypt can only deal with the situation that exists.

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