{"id":242990,"date":"2026-09-02T20:12:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-mismanages-abay-water-reservoirs-face-major-evaporation-losses-says-former-gerd-negotiator\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T20:12:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:12:26","slug":"egypt-mismanages-abay-water-reservoirs-face-major-evaporation-losses-says-former-gerd-negotiator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-mismanages-abay-water-reservoirs-face-major-evaporation-losses-says-former-gerd-negotiator\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt Mismanages Abay Water, Reservoirs Face Major Evaporation Losses, Says Former GERD Negotiator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Addis Aaba \u2014 Water stored in Egypt&#8217;s downstream reservoirs suffers from high rates of evaporation due to the country&#8217;s hot desert climate, according to Fekahmed Negash, Chairperson of the Advisory Team on Transboundary Water and GERD at Ethiopia&#8217;s Ministry of Water and Energy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Fekahmed, a former member of Ethiopia&#8217;s GERD negotiation team and former Executive Director of the Eastern Nile Technical Regional Office (ENTRO), emphasized that Ethiopia&#8217;s deep and narrow highland gorges provide far more&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609010107.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addis Aaba \u2014 Water stored in Egypt&#8217;s downstream reservoirs suffers from high rates of evaporation due to the country&#8217;s hot desert climate, according to Fekahmed Negash, Chairperson of the Advisory Team on Transboundary Water and GERD at Ethiopia&#8217;s Ministry of Water and Energy. Fekahmed, a former member of Ethiopia&#8217;s GERD negotiation team and former Executive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":242991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[49886,258,256,4697,415,55332,7127,2767,9741,7373,55331,32895,257,42881,254,6722],"class_list":["post-242990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-abay","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-evaporation","tag-face","tag-gerd","tag-losses","tag-major","tag-mismanages","tag-negotiator","tag-news","tag-reservoirs","tag-south-africa-today","tag-water"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}