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Ethiopia: How Political Change Transforms Hydropolitics

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Tezeta : a mode of music in Ethiopia, with this version recorded after the Ethiopian revolution of 1974. It relates to understanding 'the meeting of force and meaning', relating to nostalgia as the 'act of memory' and a profound sense of lot memories. Despite being the source of 85% of the Nile's total waters, Ethiopia has not been viewed as a hegemonic riparian state along the Nile ( Arsano and Tamrat 2005 ).  86% of the Nile's waters originates from the Ethiopian highlands, as Ethiopia virtually controls the most essential source of the Blue Nile, as well as many sources of the White Nile, as Figure 1 highlights ( Kendie 1999 ).  (below) Figure 1. A hydrological map of the Nile River Basin, with indications of reservoir storage volumes along certain infrastructural features along the various waterways. It is important to indicate in the map, how not only the sources of the Blue Nile are incorporated within the Ethiopian highlands, but also how many tributaries...