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…early 60% of Ethiopia's surface runoff · Anchors the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and the country's hydropower backbone · Highland source of the Blue Nile, draining 14 sub-basins across four regional states · I…

…reatened by deforestation and unsustainable cultivation · Coordination across regional states for irrigation, hydropower, and environmental flow needs

…al hectares under modern irrigation across Abbay sub-basins · 2035: Achieve full integrated allocation across hydropower, irrigation, and ecological flows

Competing demands between hydropower, irrigation, industry, and pastoralism · Climate change is shrinking dry-season flows while peak fl…

A Genale Dawa basin where staged hydropower, expanding irrigation, and protected forest headwaters together drive shared prosperity across sout…

Significant hydropower potential — Genale Dawa III (254 MW) operational, GD-V and GD-VI under planning · Origin in the wel…

…tation and land conversion in the upper Bale headwater zones · Sedimentation pressure on existing and planned hydropower reservoirs · Conflict-sensitive water allocation across Oromia, Sidama, and Somali sub-basins · Lim…

An Omo-Gibe basin where world-class hydropower, large-scale irrigation, and the rights of indigenous communities and Lake Turkana ecosystems are r…

Anchors Ethiopia's largest hydropower cascade — Gibe I, II, III, and IV (combined ~3,800 MW) · Drains to Lake Turkana — a transboundary t…

Balancing hydropower regulation with the natural flood pulse the Lake Turkana ecosystem depends on · Indigenous communit…

A restored Tekeze basin where conserved highland landscapes, secure rural water supply, and reliable hydropower together rebuild livelihoods after a decade of conflict and drought.

The Fincha sub-basin serves a double duty: reservoir catchment for the Fincha-Amerti-Neshe hydropower complex and irrigation source for the sugar estates below it. The plan prioritises catchment affore…