Sudan Reports Decline in Water Flow in White, Blue Niles

Hours ago, Sudan authorities revealed that a number of its stations on the Nile River were out of service due to a sudden decline in the flow of water in the White and Blue Niles and the Nile River, which could be the result of Ethiopia's filling of its Renaissance Dam (GERD).

"The Salha stations (A) and (B), Bayt al-Mal, Shamal Bahri, Umm Kuti, and the tree were out of service due to the sudden receding of the waters of the White and Blue Nile and the Nile River," Engineer Anwar al-Sadat Al-Haj Muhammad, director General of the Khartoum State Water Authority, said in press statements on Sunday. .

He added: "A drop of raw water pump platforms happened to their lowest levels in the Soba water station, the old Bahri water station, the Al-Muqrin water station and the Al-Manara water station, indicating that the result of the decline led to a reduction in the quantities of clean water produced from the mentioned stations."

He explained that "the authority informed the reservoir management that its stations were out of service due to the sudden decline of the Nile, before the reservoir management reported to the authority that a number of the gates of the Roseires reservoir have been opened and that the water will flow towards the states in the Nile track within 48 hours."

Engineer Sadat expected that there would be a scarcity of water supply in a number of neighborhoods in the state and its severe shortage in other distant regions.

Ethiopia had issued contradictory data on its direct filling of the reservoir of the Renaissance Dam, after its Prime Minister Abi Ahmed announced his country's intention to fill this reservoir, regardless of its agreement with Egypt and Sudan, to which the Nile flows and is a main source of water in them.