March 2022
A workshop held at the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne included participants from the Nile Water Sector and Water Resources Research Institute (WRRI) of the Ministry of Water and Irrigation of Egypt, Hydraulic Research Center (HRC), and Director of Nile Water Affairs of the Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources (MIWR) of Sudan, Nile Basin Initiative, Ain Shams University, University of Khartoum, Addis Ababa University, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), University of Oxford, and the University of Colorado.
The topics discussed included:
– Water management status and concerns in the Nile Basin
– Impacts of the GERD during filling
– Need for common Nile forecasting systems and information exchange
– Implications of climate change