A colonial area treaty drawn up by the British awarded Egypt the rights to 66 percent of the river's entire flow. Ethiopia, where the majority of the water in the Nile originates got none. -We are hugely remote part of the plan here, but make no mistakes, this is one of the greatest potential flush points in the world. Egypt feels the dam will allow Ethiopia to siphon off water that belongs, they think, to Egyptians. They reacted to the idea of this dam with fury, even talking ofsabotage on wall.

-It's overwhelming to come here and see them. Semany B* is an Ethiopian engineer in charge of the six-year construction project.

-This is an almost biblical effort to control and harness the power of the mighty Nile. -We are not controlling that mighty Nile.

-This is it, what we call!

-We can't control. We don't have any plan. We are ** implementing an strategy that fights poverty, without harming anyone.

-But countries downstream the dam, particularly Egypt, are worried about what might happen here about how using, you have the power to switch off the Nile.

-No.

-Should they be worried?

-This is an electricity project. Electricity that consumes water will not use this project for any other conservative use, only generation of electricity, and this is a known fact without affecting their...