Yilma Seleshi (Professor)

Water Resources Engineer

[Yilma Seleshi (Professor) @yilmash]

@HanyIbrahim17 @RenaissanceDam The dam is mainly for hydropower generation, but Blue Nile / Abay River flow is used for all purposes in both Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt.

[Yilma Seleshi (Professor) @yilmash]

@TirusewAsefa @TheNationalNews @addisstandard Jointly managing river basin infrastructures in the Nile basin, where water quantity is limited to supply current and future demand, comes after the Nile basin countries agreed on their equitable and reasonable water share through the NRBC.

[Yilma Seleshi (Professor) @yilmash]

የኢትዮዽያ ታላቁ የህዳሴ ግድብ  ተጠናቆ ጳጉሜ 4 በ 2017 ለምርቃትና ብርሐኑና ጉልበቱን ሊሠጠን በመብቃቱ ከፍተኛ ደስታ ተሰምቶኛል:: በእግዚአብሔር ፈቃድ የትውልዶች  ለአንድ አላማ መጽናት ጠንክሮ መስራት ውጤት ነው:: እንኳን ደሥ አላችሁ::

[Yilma Seleshi (Professor) @yilmash]

@HanyIbrahim17 @RenaissanceDam Ethiopia filled GERD from its reasonable share of the Abay / Blue Nile River flow.

[Yilma Seleshi (Professor) @yilmash]

In the DoP, Ethiopia's right to adjust the GERD annual operations (AO) from time to time is established.

The AO discussion will lead to annual water releases from GERD & shall account for the current and future water projects (drinking, irrigation, HP, env) in the Abay Basin.

[Yilma Seleshi (Professor) @yilmash]

Article on Abay river: https://t.co/KmWpj49MOb

[Yilma Seleshi (Professor) @yilmash]

@HanyIbrahim17 @SalvoChester1 @RenaissanceDam @HItefa @BMLenjiso @mfaethiopia @TayeAtske @PMEthiopia @RedwanHussien @DrTedros @MwriEgypt @HaniSewilam @khaledmahmoued1 @arableague_gs @ahmedmubarak87 @essamheggy @Grand_GERD @YacobArsano @ZerihunZAY @TirusewAsefa @Mekdi_Messay @hawelti Meaning that the Blue Nile /Abay river water is used for both consumptive including irrigation and non- consumptive uses in both upstream and downstream countries.

[Yilma Seleshi (Professor) @yilmash]

@HanyIbrahim17 @SalvoChester1 @RenaissanceDam @HItefa @BMLenjiso @mfaethiopia @TayeAtske @PMEthiopia @RedwanHussien @DrTedros @MwriEgypt @HaniSewilam @khaledmahmoued1 @arableague_gs @ahmedmubarak87 @essamheggy @Grand_GERD @YacobArsano @ZerihunZAY @TirusewAsefa @Mekdi_Messay @hawelti GERD main purpose is energy generation. Blue Nile / Abay river water has multipurpose uses for both upstream and downstream countries.

[Yilma Seleshi (Professor) @yilmash]

@RenaissanceDam In a very wet year, GERD can generate up to 26,000 GWhr/year, in drought year it reduce to 9000 GWhr/year, what you find in literature 15700 GWhr/year is average energy generation over many years based on historical Abay / Blue Niie flow data.

[Yilma Seleshi (Professor) @yilmash]

@HanyIbrahim17 Hany, look dam owner right to adjust the GERD annual operation (b).

[Yilma Seleshi (Professor) @yilmash]

@RenaissanceDam Agreed Asrat, this paper below support your assessment. We may trade HP in binding way, up to the downstream release water share limit (when agreed). In the future limiting factor is Food not Energy. https://t.co/IK7JViJHWY

[Silabat Manaye Dessalegn @dessalegnmanaye]

#GERD has created a spirit of accomplishment in people's minds as many people shout the slogan "Yes, we can." This theme is now working in many other sectors that are not yet exploited but have the potential to reshape #Ethiopia's development.
@mike_foshoe @yilmash @TayeAtske

[Yilma Seleshi (Professor) @yilmash]

Article on Abay river: https://t.co/KmWpj49MOb

[Yilma Seleshi (Professor) @yilmash]

@HanyIbrahim17 GERD main purpose is hydropower; Blue Nile river is obviously used for domestic & industrial water supply, irrigation, hydro powers, and other uses in the three countries.

[Yilma Seleshi (Professor) @yilmash]

@HanyIbrahim17 Annual operation rules are annual releases from GERD - future releases. The future releases from GERD is dependent on inflow to GERD, and mainly dependent on future development upstream of GERD; so how can we fix agreement on annual operation, without water sharing agreement?

[Yilma Seleshi (Professor) @yilmash]

@HanyIbrahim17 You mean final agreement regulating GERD or regulating Blue Nile future releases?

[Yilma Seleshi (Professor) @yilmash]

@HanyIbrahim17 So deceptive, twisting matter to prove your wish. Ethiopia, any one in the world, is not constructing a dam to fail. This is engineering at best. Please check the safety of your dam (served already for more than 50 years) and storing twice the size of GERD storage.

[Yilma Seleshi (Professor) @yilmash]

@galema12 @RenaissanceDam The operation rule forced GERD to release near avg Q. GERD WL will not be < 610 masl to protect turbine cavitation. Simulations using various operation rules adapting to flows will produce > 15TW/year by 13 turbines. GERD is mainly for HP, but Abay river Q is for all uses.