This can be solved by developing irrigation scheme for those affected. Forsure TPLF will go in coming 20 years but dam will be used by poor people of Ethiopia and as a nation we must think for 100 years. Ikal is talking about an evil that is unfolding in our own eyes during our time. So substantial amount of the water we are daming is the one that could have evaporated otherwise. As Richard Leakey, the Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist and politician put it, “these happenings are profoundly disturbing”. 2. All these years we have been squabbling against each other instead of focusing on using the Nile. The project will benifit both people and both sides shall work together to minimize the impact during operational phase. Over the past decade, the Ethiopian government has pushed ahead with a huge hydro-electric dam on the Omo, known as Gibe III. To make way for the commercial plantations planned for the Omo Valley, tens of thousands of hectares of land will be expropriated and thousands of local people displaced. The Omo River is a lifeline for hundreds of thousands of indigenous people in southwest Ethiopia and northern Kenya. [8] The project is located on the Omo River, approximately 300 Km south-west of Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa. The resultant extended period of radically decreased river flow below the dam—already a disastrous situation from even the “up to 3 year” reservoir filling period predicted by the GOE and accepted in the AFDB’s 2010 assessment—would be disastrous for indigenous communities downstream along the Omo River and around Lake Turkana. It is estimated that more than 200,000 people rely on the Omo River below the dam for some form of subsistence such as flood recession agriculture, and many of these ethnic groups live in chronic hunger. i know those tribes on omo river region. The assault on the Omo River and Lake Turkana by the Gibe dam is projected to result in a drop of seven to ten meters in the lake’s depth in the first five years alone (the lake has already receded by about five to eight meters because of climate change). I hope the same big thing will be done on Abay – Nile. Egyptians for centuries depended on the nile whose source is without doubt east africa. they drink water from the river, those people don’t know onions, tomatoes, vegetables… no clothes some have hat, but inside no beds, no furniture just empty. What remains of the Aral Sea is heavily polluted. It is all about interest and we must keep interest of country though we must not blink our eyes when TPLF is killing innocent citizens. The Ethiopian dam-affected people – who, like those on the Kenyan side, are largely indigenous peoples leading traditional lifestyles – have heard little or nothing about the project and their options, even though the changes to the Omo will upset the fragile balance of river bank cultivation and herding they maintain, unraveling the valley’s best strategy against food insecurity. In his seminal work, Development as Freedom, the Nobel Prize winning economist, Amartya Sen, demonstrated that sustainable development must be based on universal access to social and economic necessities as well as political and civil rights. But damaging enviroment, wait a minute, corcodile tear-forget it. says that isn’t true the govermment is trying This article may be from someone who don’t want to see any peace and development in Ethiopia (probablly an amche). you can not in your right mind justify the construction of a dam that is openly threatening to the livelihoods others, even when they are not ethiopians…if international brotherly concerns meant nothing, then we would have long ago used the waters of lake victoria for irrigation,but wisdom understands that cutting that source, will definately affects lives of millions of human beings-thats the bottom line. The many communities in the Omo-Turkana Basin have suffered a systematic curtailment of their most basic and essential rights. And so bringing in here the issue of Turkwell does not help. Dear Elias I have few questions for you 1) what is wrong with selling electricity to kenya or other nations for generating more income to Ethiopia, 2) what is the wrong side of the Ethiopian government for being more accountable to the Ethiopian people and thier interst than to the Kenyan? Filling the dam’s reservoir will significantly reduce the lake’s inflow for a number of years. Its heritage and history, as well as responsibility for its future, are shared by us all. The saga of Gibe III Dam is just the latest episode of human pressures contributing to the dying of Africa’s biggest lakes. is Ethiopia responsible for that also? Extinct volcanoes enclose the horizon, and the heat is so intense that when the blustery wind from Mount Kulal on the eastern shore temporarily ceases and clouds gather overhead, raindrops sometimes evaporate before they even reach the lake. The Ethiopian and Kenyan governments shall work together to find ways to have the impact on society minimized and compensated. It is true weyane has ugly poletical and human right record. Let us not be myopic. Friends of Lake Turkana, a nonprofit organization she founded in 2007, works to stop construction of Ethiopia’s Gilgel Gibe III Dam on the Omo River. these people are isolated from the world,they have no clean water, no pipe there, no street. Two wrongs do not make a right! it is shameful those poor people are punished by government. Its estimated production capacity is 6,500 GWh a year. Constructing dams on ones own river is not new to the world nor is the dying out of lakes. the government arranges for tourists to see them and get money. No less than 500,000 poor indigenous people depend on these ecosystems for their survival. There is no mention of how long it may take to fill Gibe III’s massive reservoir, during which time dam operators may only release 25m3/ sec, creating a prolonged dry season up to several years long. Yes, there is unbelievable corruption in such huge project, but that is not uncommon thing the west too. She generate hydropower from these two stations but no dams in these two sites. I have been in “weito” which is another river in south OMO region and saw the impact of controlled flow in that region. It is difficult not to conclude that what we are seeing in the Omo is the wholesale disregard of these commitments by the Ethiopian government. That is what they are doing nothing new. CHINA is facing new cover-up claims amid fears the world’s biggest dam is about to collapse causing a tidal wave which could wipe out entire cities. Around 90 metres of bridge being constructed by Midroc over Omo River collapses A 90-metre portion of the Omo River Bridge, which is under construction in Omorate Zone, Southern Regional State, collapsed onsite. I don’t care about TPLF, but I do care about Ethiopia. If you were consulted, then the Merrile were not consulted.Do not just support it because it might not affect you. Leave us alone! the treaty signed with the british not withstanding, there is no development project that can take place without consent and agreement from at the very least, kenya,uganda,tanzania ….etc.etc and yet the source is lake victoria…. The drop in lake level caused by the 60–70 % Omo River flow volume loss during closure of the Gibe III reservoir and early operation of the dam would be in addition to rather than “within the range” of the lake’s annual fluctuation.The latter is incorrectly asserted by the GOE downstream impact assessment and the two major development bank impact assessments (EIB 2010; … The dam is located about 190 miles southwest of Ethiopia's capitol Addis Ababa on the Omo River. This is a politicllay charged accustion than on real envirenometal disaster. Formed millions of years ago in the tectonic upheavals that created East Africa’s Great Rift Valley, Turkana is the largest permanent desert lake in the world. Impact on the livelihoods of the inhabitants of the lower Omo River Valley. All of this has happened despite the area gaining the status of a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980. The collapse has stalled operations at the $600 million project, which is supposed to produce 420 megawatts of electricity from the Omo River. Encompassing swathes of Ethiopia, South Sudan and Kenya, the Omo-Turkana Basin is one of the oldest landscapes in the world that is known to have been inhabited by Homo sapiens and is now one of the world’s most extraordinary examples of ethnic diversity. It was wrong and we cannot bank on that argument this time. to teaches thoese people to wear clothes and Let us put our country interest first what ever our political view is. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Open the dam and let the water flow.’ Gibe I is already complete, damming one of the tributaries of the Omo River. Children sitting on the Omo river bank, which is cracked due to falling water levels. The Ethiopian government claims that the $2bn (£1.2bn) dam, which is intended to generate electricity for Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somalia, will stop annual flooding of the Omo … universal access to social and economic necessities, Eritrea in the news – Monitoring report: 27 – 28 November, Eritrea’s role in overseeing Europe’s fight to halt African refugees, Eritreans wait in vain for change after peace with Ethiopia, The death of one of the Jewish fighters imprisoned in Eritrea during WW2, UNICEF air charter brings life-saving vaccines for children of Eritrea, Treaties between Ethiopia, Britain and France, 1897 – 1908. All our future relies on how well we utilize our rivers. Gibe III will provide the most significant infrastructure the country lakes with the least environmental impact, so lets cross our finger and hope for the best. These banks and organizations have been denying loans for construction of dams on the Nile because Egypt has been lobbying hard all these decades. Ironically, while the filling of the reservoir alone could drive Lake Turkana to the brink of ecological collapse, the EIA argues that the dam will help restore Lake Turkana, not deplete it. But we must also recognise that large-scale infrastructure projects are likely to have far reaching consequences for the lifestyles and cultural identities of those they displace. You mentioned about the Nile. The lake could start drying up when its main source, the Omo River, is depleted by a huge dam across the border in Ethiopia. I am not Kenyan, but I am extremely worried about the consequences of building the Gibe III. Its development policies are not only transforming landscape and heritage but destroying complex systems of sustainable living that have endured for millennia. Lake Turkana gets 90 percent of its water from the Omo River. In the lower Omo River Valley of southern Ethiopia, a spreading humanitarian emergency that threatens to spawn conflicts in the region is largely being met with silence from both the Ethiopian government and the international community. The valley has for centuries been home to … Article II provides against the destruction of “a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”. I condemn the author of the article and the people who are working behind the scenes to stop the dam project. In doing so, it has reduced sediments and nutrients critical for traditional agriculture, riverside pastures and fish habitat. Gashu, you seem to know possibly little around this globe. Lake Chad has nearly disappeared from diversions that stopped its flow, and Lake Victoria has seen major drops in its water levels from dams that let too much water out. Ethiopia constructed the Gibe III hydro-electric power dam along River Omo, which is the main source of water for Lake Turkana – the world’s largest desert lake and a Unesco heritage site … It is true the project might have short term environmental impact on the desert lake users. the dam could be a development disaster for Ethiopia and the region. the decreased water flow of omo river resulting gibe iii dam have significant impacts on ecosystems surrounding river. may cause 290 km2 of forest dry out lack of water. Any development has its own environmental cost. Resulting scarcity could quickly lead to violent conflict in one of the most culturally diverse areas of Africa. This is what happens when a country is hostage to World Bank and IMF money, they decide what the money borrowed will be used for not the recepient country, it is all about making money for the banks not about improving the living standards of the people. “The Omo River is a lifeline for hundreds of thousands of indigenous people in southwest Ethiopia and northern Kenya. Their situation mirrors that in Ethiopia, where the traditional economy of the Lower Omo Valley supports up to half a million people. Furthermore, instead of investing in projects that confer direct benefits to the local communities, governments on both sides of the border have tended to exploit the local resources for the larger nation, leaving locals writhing in abject poverty. Meanwhile, centuries of collective wisdom relating to livestock diversification, flood dependant cultivation and customary obligations and mechanisms of livestock exchange, will be made redundant. about the dam i think ethiopia have to right to delovepe their country and they are doing the best interst of their people. I’m not saying there will not be any environmental impact but there are many remidial measures to minimize the impact. The Gibe III Hydroelectric dam is a 243 m high roller-compacted concrete dam with an associated hydropower plant on the Omo River in Ethiopia. The members of parliament representing Northern Kenya need to know what is planned, and have a chance to voice their communities’ concerns. —————————– It is called “ghost rain.”. These are your fellow citizens the Merrile of Ethiopia. live better life. The minimum, environmental flow is based on the single, lowest monthly flow recorded in the driest month, since 1964. You are Ethiopian, you think the Ethiopian way. Most of the project all over the world involving a significant positive socio economical impact have been criticized when they were first planned. ItFarmer Plowing fields in Omo Valley where the River is a vital resource will block the natural flow of the River, causing a reduction of water flow to the southern part of Ethiopia, also known as Omo Valley. AS you dam, you will be restricting the water and release them when you do not need: Now, is that when it is rightly needed by the people leaving down stream? Why people wander about lakes and etc, the TPLF has promised to convert Ethiopia in to desert. Wether under woyane or esle Ethiopia has the right to use its water according to intentional laws. I have, many times. The completion of Gibe III, Africa's tallest dam to date, has eliminated the annual flood and radically reduced the Omo's flow, which produces 90% of Lake Turkana's freshwater input. Aren’t they our ally towrds fair use of the Nile against Egypt? we are not supposed to ask any permission from kenya. I have visited the Gilgel Gibe I and II projects when I was student. Now, another big dam under construction – on the Omo River in Ethiopia – threatens not only the ancient ways of living of some 500,000 tribal peoples in Ethiopia and Kenya, but also Lake Turkana, the world’s largest desert lake. Let us listen to our inner soul and work for survival of humanity in its wholeness! The project’s lack of transparency in other areas borders on the corrupt. The people forget things after couple of days and enjoying talking. But the irony of the Gibe III dam is that while it threatens the economy of the Turkana region, a large share of its electricity will be sold to consumers in other parts of Kenya. Elias thanks for news but let’s not make mistake of EPRP. Where the river ends in Lake Turkana, this sentiment was echoed by local fishermen: “You will find our bones in the desert.” The story of the Omo-Turkana Basin is now that of the Ethiopian state exploiting its periphery in the name of “development”, trampling on the human rights of its citizens in the process. It comprises an RCC dam and an open-air powerhouse with 10 Francis turbines that offer an overall installed power of 1,870 MW and a generation capacity of 6,500 GWh/year. In a cattle camp on the bank of the ancient Omo River a Mursi elder implored me to “tell our story so that others might know us before we are all dead in the desert”. Though we don’t like the colonization of our country by Italy, the roads and bridges constructed that time have remained very useful for us (belte leje yesetuten yezo aleqsal). The uncompetitive awarding of the contract also contradicts World Bank and African Development Bank procurement guidelines, The World Bank has declared the project ineligible for project lending, unlike the African Development Bank which plans to consider the project despite the contract violation. The nile is the river that has the biggest potential for benefiting all of Ethiopia. 1. The Ethiopian Government is planning a series of upstream dams on the Omo River; the most imminent is the Gibe III hydroelectric dam, already two years into construction. International agreements which the Ethiopian government signed up to, such as the 1993 International Convenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights require it to protect and promote the rights of minority cultures and ensure the “right of everyone to take part in cultural life”. The Ethiopian dam-affected people – who, like those on the Kenyan side, are largely indigenous peoples leading traditional lifestyles – have heard little or nothing about the project and their options, even though the changes to the Omo will upset the fragile balance of river bank cultivation and herding they maintain, unraveling the valley’s best strategy against food insecurity. The US$1.7 billion project is the single largest infrastructural work being undertaken in Ethiopia, yet its lucrative contract was handed to Italian construction giant, Salini, based on a questionable exception to Ethiopia’s own procurement rules. Daming water for hyrdoelectic are by far the most environmetal friendly than other water resources projects.The water will continue flowing to that lake after generating power. The dam and associated sugar plantations have severely restricted flows into Kenya’s Lake Turkana, the world’s largest desert lake. 3) Did you ever ask the kenyan governemnet for the environmental problems caused as a result of the Turkwel river dam on the kenyan side that use to drain to Turkana? The Gibe 3 Dam is currently under construction on Ethiopia’s Omo River. I am baffled by the cynical and selfish manner in which Ikal’s timely alarm over an imminnt environmental disaster has been treated by some of you. The Omo traverses the highlands of southern Ethiopia before it empties into the lake in northern Kenya. This project is one of the projects we badlly needed for our society. Climate change could add several more to the list of dead or dying lakes and depleted rivers across the continent. – Elias. This other-worldly scene is bolstered by the world’s largest population of Nile crocodiles which survive on another Nilotic ancestor, the giant perch, which in turn feeds on a profusion of blue-green algae. Criticizing the most acceptable one will make the country to underdeveloped the resource for decades to come. I am mad by the kind of responses written by people who pretend to be concerned Ethiopians. It is really astonishing. For Kenya, it’s a matter of allowing one part of the country to be devastated so that others may get a little more power. But that shall not take us to the extent of compromising our national interest. Omo River downstream fl ow due to the Gibe III dam is greatly magni fi ed by the radical abstraction of Omo River waters by major irrigated agribusiness enterprises the … why Ethiopia is blamed when she is developing Gibee III project which is far from Turkana by hundreds of killometers. The financial backers of the Gibe III Dam may include the African Development Bank, the European Investment Bank, the Italian Government and JP Morgan Chase. The Gilgel Gibe III Dam is a 250 m high roller-compacted concrete dam with an associated hydroelectric power plant on the Omo River in Ethiopia. It is a matter of talking appropreiate measures. Over the past decade, the Ethiopian government has pushed ahead with a huge hydro-electric dam on the Omo, known as Gibe III. We shall not accept it until proper environmental assessment is done. Doesn’t it make sense they’d allow this one to go through just so we would be in conflict with Kenya in the long run? “Mejemeria Eras”. At some point she speaks in terms of our environment. Take note we are not against it but who was consulted. I’m not sure where we are heading to. Lake Turkana is a miraculous anomaly of life-giving water in a parched and unforgiving land. We don’t want to mix our national interest with our poletical agenda. Starting in 2008, construction of the Gilgel Gibe III Dam on the river upended that life for subsistence farmers, cattle herders, and fishermen, who depended on the Omo… these big monster banks are doing business without having any drop of integrity and social responsibility.but what makes me more sad is that most African country governments are being used as an instrument for those monster banks agendas which are against the very livelihood of Africans poor people. By ending the river’s natural flood cycle, the dam would destroy harvests and grazing lands along the river banks, and destroy fisheries in Lake Turkana, the world’s largest desert lake. “Losing our precious water resources will make us less able to adapt to climate change.” Excuse me? The dam will devastate the unique culture and ecosystems of the Lower Omo Valley and Lake Turkana, both recognized as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. 4) Which dam are you talking on Gibe III project? Not only that, electric dams should not be built at the cost of destroying the environment. Today, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee took the decision to officially inscribe Lake Turkana as a World Heritage site “in danger” because of severe impacts caused by the Gibe 3 Dam, constructed upstream on Ethiopia’s Omo River. Elais, you should not be an all out opposition to what is going on in Ethiopia and post this article. When are we going to face Egypt in this manner instead of doing this dam that could, in the long run, take us to confrontation with Kenyans? At nearly 244 meters tall, Gibe III is Africa’s tallest dam and the continent’s third largest hydroelectric plant. Projects which set out to increase economic growth without regard for social justice and individual rights are not worthy of the name “development”. Turkana’s indigenous communities are highly dependent on the lake for their food crops, livestock grazing and watering, and fishing. The Gibe 3 Hydropower Dam, already under construction, will dramatically alter the Omo River’s flood cycle, affecting ecosystems and livelihoods all the way down to the world’s largest desert lake, Kenya’s Lake Turkana. Take note that the Nile water usage agreement was done by the colonialists without getting ideas from the rest of the countries using the water of the Nile. I am a somali live in canada.I was watching BBC news they show a topless teenage african girls and topless lady.what i asked myself is that the news people hide the breasts of the white girls at beaches.i am angry. john! Hamar children milk one of their family’s cattle. you are wrong sami. The riparian forest, one of the last pristine dryland forests in Africa, would also be in grave danger. [email protected]). This article doesn’t have Ethiopia’s interest at heart. While a power purchase agreement outlining the terms of electricity sales was reportedly signed between Ethiopia and Kenya in 2006, no bilateral agreements on the use of the Omo-Turkana waterway and the dam’s downstream effects to Kenya are publicly known. we own nearly 11 river basin which are all trans boundary, this make getting fund for any of the water resource project very difficult. In Ethiopia, civil society activists who might normally help raise awareness about such projects or advocate for affected people have been hesitant to join the fray, given their government’s restrictive policies and repressive tendencies regarding NGOs. we ethiopians support this project despit our political stance. Raphael Lemkin, who coined the word “genocide”, famously defined the specific need to protect against the “disintegration of the political and social institutions of culture, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups”. The accident occurred at around 5:15pm on April 19, 2011, when one side of the bridge, located 850km from Addis Abeba, gave… On the other hand Woyanne is the darling of the west because they do what is dictated to them by western financial institutions, westerners know Woyanne is a great servant and good for their bottom line but not good for the people of Ethiopia. Losing our precious water resources will make us less able to adapt to climate change. decreased … The 300,000 people who live around Lake Turkana in Kenya were neither informed of the project’s impacts nor consulted on their priorities. When water is released, what effect will it have to the ecosystem as they pour downstream? The World Bank has faulted the lack of progress between Kenya and Ethiopia in putting in place measures to protect Lake Turkana from extinction as a result of construction of the Gibe III dam. We condemn it and struggle to change that course. It is very important to invest on the infrastructure that will let the water to be controlled in efficient ways. omo river basin home pristine riparian forest remaining in drylands of sub-saharan africa. This prehistoric lake has also long been a focus for humans: its shores have revealed the oldest-known fossil remains of Homo habilis. The filling of the reservoir behind Gibe III Dam on the Omo It may have the advantage keeping the water in a relativelly cooler area than in the desert lake where it would evaporate even before no one use it. As we have documented in eyewitness reports, articles and commentaries, the dam could lead to the collapse of the fragile ecosystems of the Lower Omo Valley and Lake Turkana. I read the environmental impact assessment which actual done as per the guidelines. Hellow There, I want to remind you that what ever your political view is such kinds of project are so important for the country, thus lets stop echoing other country interest while compromising our own! That country needs more projects on its water for irrigation, hydropower (domestic or export), etc. the people are dying, Ethiopian government is ignorant and they are destroying the pristine environment, etc. Both cradle and crucible of our species, the Omo-Turkana Basin is unique and precious. Shame on you Nazi Meles!!!!!! the same applies to river omo and lake turkana. The Gibe 3 Hydropower Dam, already under construction, will dramatically alter the Omo River’s flood cycle, affecting ecosystems and livelihoods all the way down to the world’s largest desert lake, Kenya’s Lake Turkana. The Omo is the major tributary to Lake Turkana, and a dam upstream would drastically … The Gibe II dam blocks the same river, and recently was a major source of embarrassment for the Ethiopian government and Italian firm Salini Construttori, after part of it collapsed just ten days after opening. The peoples of Lake Turkana must be heard. The people who live in this area are basically pastoralists who with their counter-parts on the other side of the border, the Turkana, are probably some of the most marginalised communities in the world today. Without any meaningful consultation with the communities affected, the state has also appropriated grazing lands and freshwater, threatening their vital resources and local heritage. Agence Francaise de Dévelopement, Germany’s aid agency KFW, and the Development Bank of Southern Africa may support the costly transmission line from the Gibe III Dam to Kenya’s national grid. So far, the project has continued despite the huge deficiencies in this official study, but those concerned about the impacts on Lake Turkana intend to bring their case to these agencies. T he Omo River is a lifeline for hundreds of thousands of indigenous people in southwest Ethiopia and northern Kenya. We need to know if the impact on Lake Turkana was even considered before the power purchase agreement was signed. Endale whey they do not respect the innocent black teens,isnt it a crime to publicly show the world the childerns naked bodies. If we believe in moral cadence, then we should know that posterity will judge us harshly if we continue beat our chests saying “our country” “our sovereignty” “our people” and many other such self-serving adages. God Bless Ethiopia, Though we all agree on the ugly poletical and human right record of EPRDF, I don’t think it is wise to object the construction of such projects which have huge advantages even after EPRDF leave office. 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