A new £3.6billion dam in Ethiopia has been completed, according to officials but it's feared the hydropower project will ...

The decades-old Indus Waters Treaty faces its gravest challenge as India suspends it, prompting Pakistan to warn of war.

Ethiopia announced the completion of a new hydropower dam on the Nile River, a project Egypt has called an “existential threat” to its own water supply. ● Extreme heat in France and Switzerland has ...

Syria reaffirms commitment to Iraq's Euphrates water share (58% of Turkey's flow) amid scarcity crisis. Joint monitoring station planned as Turkey must maintain 500m³/sec minimum. Iraq seeks increased ...

Egypt says that Ethiopia has consistently lacked the political will to reach a binding agreement on its now-complete dam.

Ethiopia’s prime minister said Thursday that a controversial power dam on the Nile is now complete, a major milestone for his ...

From Africa to Asia, countries are already fighting over rivers, dams, and access to freshwater. As the world faces growing ...

Country's share from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers shrinks A bridge spans the Tigris river near the Makhoul dam site, in northern Iraq's Salaheddine .province. AFP Baghdad: Iraq's water reserves ...

Water has emerged as a new front for power and leverage in a region already burdened by war, political instability, and climate extremes. This is more evident than in the Tigris-Euphrates river ...

Local Kurdish media and Damascus state media reported the deal, which follows four months of clashes over the dam that pitted Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) factions against the SDF. The ...

The SDF captured the Tishrin Dam, one of several along the Euphrates river, from the Islamic State group in late 2015. However, in recent months, they have come under increasing attack from ...

View of the Euphrates River in Turkey in 1994 with the recently completed Ataturk Dam and resultant reservoir. Picture uploaded to Flickr by NASA Johnson. CC BY-NC 2.0 This post by Mohamed Yousry, was ...