The Nile Basin countries have endowed with a huge resource: the Nile River. They could have been mutually benefited from the water had they applied appropriate water management and good will to develop together. However, there are impediments in implementing cooperation among the basin countries due to various reasons._ One of the major reasons that retarded the countries from working for a win-win solution is the interest of the downstream country, Egypt, to maintain its water monopoly.
In this regard, Ethiopia has been attempting to bring downstream countries to a round table so as to create the notion of mutual benefit. As a result, different negotiations have been made so far between Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt, although the process was terminated recently.
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