This book is a contribution by the presenters of the 2020 International Conference on the Nile and Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The Nile basin is facing unprecedented level of water right challenges after the construction of GERD has begun. Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan have struggled to narrow their differences on filling and operation of the GERD. The need for science and data-based discussion for a lasting solution is crucial. Historical perspectives, water rights, agreements, failed negotiations, and other topics related to the Nile is covered in this book. The book covers Nile water claims past and present, international transboundary basin cooperation and water sharing, Nile water supply and demand management, Blue Nile/Abbay and Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, land and water degradation and watershed management, emerging threats of the Lakes Region in the Nile Basin, and hydrologic variation and monitoring. This book is beneficial for students, researchers, sociologists, engineers, policy makers, lawyers, water resources and environmental managers and for the people and governments of the Nile Basin.

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Dr. Assefa M. Melesse is Professor of Water Resources Engineering with background in remote sensing and geospatial applications to hydrological modeling. He earned his M.E. (2000) and Ph.D. (2002) from the University of Florida in Agricultural Engineering with two concentrations (Hydrological Sciences and GIS) and three minors (Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, and Remote sensing). His areas of research and experience include spatially distributed hydrologic modeling, ecohydrology, spatial surface water balance modeling, sediment transport, surface and groundwater interactions modeling, spatial evapotranspiration mapping using remote sensing, waterenergycarbon fluxes coupling and modeling, remote sensing hydrology, climate change impact modeling, river basin management, and land cover change detection and scaling. He has also worked on the application of artificial neural network and other statistical learning techniques to hydrology. He has vast experiences in the Nile River Basin and the Caribbean Islands. Dr. Melesse was a Fulbright Scholar in Ethiopia in 2012. He is Author and Editor of 6 books and over 450 publications including journal articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings, and conference presentations. Dr. Melesse is Registered Professional Engineer (PE) and also Diplomate of Water Resources Engineer (D. WRE) with over 30 years of teaching and research experience. Dr. Melesse has served as Advisor/Co-advisor for over 60 graduate students.

Dr. Wossenu Abtew is Professional Civil Engineer and Certified Water Resources Engineer with over 30 years of experience in water resources related areas including water management, hydrologic system analysis, statistical hydrology, constructed wetlands design and operation, environmental restoration, transboundary rivers, the Nile River Basin, dam sizing and operation, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), best management agricultural practices, landscape dynamics and environmental restoration, water quality, and sediment sampling. He is currently Principal Civil Engineer with Water and Environment Consulting, LLC. He is also Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Earth and Environment at Florida International University. He has authored and edited six books on hydrology, Nile Basin, GERD, and other.

Dr. Semu Moges is Academic and Professional Civil Engineer with over 20 years of experience in education, research, and consultancy in water, environment, energy, climate change, sustainable development, and waterenergyfood nexus modeling and understanding. He is currently working as Independent Consultant with different international and local companies. He is also affiliated with the University of Connecticut (UCONN) in USA. He was previously Faculty of Arba Minch and Addis Ababa Universities in Ethiopia. He has also taught in several African Universities including Pan African University. He authored and co-authored several water journals articles and hapters on the water, climate, and transboundary rivers systems especially Nile Basin.

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1. Introduction.- 2. Pre-colonial, Colonial and Post-Colonial Era: A Look into the Historical Depths of the Nile Waters: What to Learn from History.- 3. Global Perspectives and Regional Lessons: The Nile River and The Prospects of The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.- 4. Beyond GERD: Hydropolitical, Hydrological, Technological and Investment (HHTI) Imperatives for Sustained Economic Cooperation.- 5. Water Resources Account of Egypt vs Ethiopia's Nile Sub-basins: The Utility of the Concept of Water Budget.- 6. Geographical Dimensions of Hydro-politics: The Case of Nile and Mekong Rivers.- 7. Evaluation of Transboundary Water Sharing Rules and Principles: The Case of The Nile River Basin.- 8. Canada-US Columbia River Treaty: A Review.- 9. Water Security, Evolution and Challenges in Transboundary Basins.- 10. Benefit-Sharing Framework in the Nile River Basin: An Alternative to Water Sharing or Water Right Governance Arrangements.- 11. Exploring Technologies for Sustainable Transboundary Water Resource Management in the Era of Climate Change: A Case for the Nile River Basin Riparian States.- 12. Distributional Conflict over the Blue Nile River Basin and its Implication for Institutional Change (The Case of Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt).- 13. Applications of Water Footprint Methodology as a Decision Support Tools for Water Allocation/ Management Tasks in Egypt.- 14. Water Management Priorities for Sustainable Socio-Economic Development.- 15. Scientific Misconduct and Partisan Research on the Stability of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: A critical review of a contribution to Environmental Remote Sensing in Egypt (Springer, 2020).- 16. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, and the Revival of the Dispute Over the Colonial Nile Waters Treaties.- 17. River Flow Monitoring and Data Quality for Equitable Nile Water Sharing.- 18. Resolving the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Conflict Through the African Union Nexus Approach.- 19. World Bank and GERD: from Non-financing to Failed Meditation.- 20. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Filling and Operation Negotiations, and Eastern Nile Water Sharing.- 21. Stage Based Filling of Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam (GERD): Flexible, Adaptive and Cooperative Approach.- 22. Conceptual and Practical Approaches to Integrated Watershed Management and Agroforestry to Address Food Security and Environmental Degradation in Lake Tana and the Blue Nile River Basin, Ethiopia.- 23. Need of Intensified Watershed Management Interventions in the Upper Catchment of GERD to Avert Sedimentation.- 24. Water Conservation and Management through Decentralized Rainwater Harvesting Under Climate Uncertainty, Ethiopia.- 25. Gully Erosion and Effectiveness of its Treatment Measures, Upper Abay Basin, northwest highlands of Ethiopia.- 26. Hydro-sedimentation Burden Shift in the Abbay (Blue Nile) Basin, Ethiopia.- 27. Restoring Lake Tana Through Reduction of Outflow and Compensation of the Power Gap with An Alternative Energy Source.- 28. Blue Nile River Morphology change Response to Watershed Treatments: Along the Couse between Lake Tana and Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.- 29. Water Hyacinth Management Experiences and Lessons for Lake Tana.- 30. Assessment of the use of Remotely Sensed Rainfall Products for Runoff Simulation.- 31. Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) for Hydrological Simulation and River Flow Forecasting: The Case of Eastern Nile Basin.- 32. Impact of Climate Change on the Ecohydrology of Nile River Basin.