# Climate Change Wars: Water - Egypt and Ethiopia **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 35
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2020, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/climate-change-wars-water-egypt-and-ethiopia/847685/35 "2020-02-12T23:51:39Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > That’s kind of impossible… they can’t fill it without reducing the flow. When I wrote that, I had in mind something like, Ethiopia currently draws say 2 Gm[SUP]3[/SUP]/yr (billion cubic meters per year) of water and the rest is for Sudan and Egypt, so Ethiopia would have to reduce its own consumption to 1 Gm[SUP]3[/SUP]/yr to fill the reservoir the difference of 1 Gm[SUP]3[/SUP]/yr. But it turns out, apparently Ethiopia had signed away their sovereign right to control the river a hundred years ago… ~Max --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/climate-change-wars-water-egypt-and-ethiopia/847685)._