The Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is pictured above.
Egypt's
Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources announced on the International Day
of Water that Egypt's water deficit is very real. Here is what he said, “As a
third world country we are no strangers to poverty but now we’ve apparently
entered a whole new era and realm of poverty; that of the water variety.
Yesterday, Egypt’s Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources, Hossam Moghazi,
said that “we have officially entered an era of water poverty, our yearly consumption
as a nation currently amounts to nearly 83 billion cubic meters but our actual
share of Nile water is only about 55 billion.” The minister’s statement came just days after
Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan signed a Declaration of Principles, which outline some
guidelines concerning the water sharing arrangement of the Nile in light of
Ethiopia’s under-construction Renaissance Dam. The dam is a source of
contention among the “Basin” countries for fear that it will affect the water
supply of downstream nations.
Egypt’s worry about a lack of water is now very real, even
before the dam is completed. Egypt is already experiencing a shortage in
supply. In a ministry event celebrating the International Day of Water, Moghazi
proceeded to make the most uncelebratory statement possible; “Egypt has entered
the era of water poverty, we have to ration consumption so we can handle Egypt's
agricultural, industrial and drinking water needs.”
Moghazi’s comments do not adequately describe the
magnitude of water disaster facing Egypt right now.
Egypt
will face two very different water disasters, at two very different points in
time.
1) As the new Renaissance Dam is completed, and begins
diverting water to fill her enormous basin, Egypt will be deprived of virtually
all water for two years! That scenario is an absolute disaster for a nation
living in such a dry, desert climate as Egypt.
2) After the Renaissance Dam is either blown up or
collapses during an earthquake because of poor engineering, the resulting tsunami
of water will destroy Egypt.
This Renaissance Dam project will fulfill Isaiah 19
prophecy, read it below.
1The burden of Egypt. Behold,
the Lord rideth upon a swift CLOUD,
and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his
presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
2And
I will SET the Egyptians against the
Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one
against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
3And
the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel
thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them
that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
4And the Egyptians will I give
over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them,
saith the Lord, theLord of hosts.
5And
the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
6And
they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied
and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
7The
paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by
the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
8The
fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall
lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
9Moreover
they that WORK in fine flax, and they that
weave networks, shall be confounded.
10And
they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds
for fish.
11Surely
the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh
is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son
of ancient kings?
12Where are they? where are thy
wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the Lord of
hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
13The
princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Memphis are deceived; they
have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
14The Lord hath
mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to
err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
16In
that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear
because of the shaking of the hand of the Lord of
hosts, which he shaketh over it.
17And
the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention
thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the Lord of
hosts, which he hath determined against it.
18In
that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan,
and swear to the Lord of
hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.
19In
that day shall there be an altar to the Lordin the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar
at the border thereof to the Lord.
20And
it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of
hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the Lord because
of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he
shall deliver them.
21And
the Lord shall
be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the Lord in
that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto
the Lord, and perform it.
22And
the Lord shall
smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall RETURN even to the Lord, and he shall be entreated of them, and shall
heal them.
23In
that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian
shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall
serve with the Assyrians.
24In that day shall Israel be the
third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:
25Whom
the Lord of
hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the WORK of my hands, and Israel mine
inheritance.