{"id":1266,"date":"2011-06-15T10:59:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T14:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2011-06-15T11:01:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T15:01:10","slug":"italy-awarded-4-8-billion-contract-to-build-dam-in-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=1266","title":{"rendered":"Italy awarded $4.8 billion contract to build dam in Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsdire.com\/news\/1864-despite-controversy-ethiopia-goes-ahead-with-48b-grand-millennium-dam.html\">http:\/\/www.newsdire.com\/news\/1864-despite-controversy-ethiopia-goes-ahead-with-48b-grand-millennium-dam.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia is upstream on one portion of the Nile River. Back 50 years ago, England made a &#8220;treaty&#8221; between its &#8220;colonies&#8221; in Africa, giving Egypt the right to use most of the water in the Nile River, and Ethiopia gets none of it &#8211; even though they are the source of the water.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia is going to unilaterally break that treaty, and with Italy&#8217;s &#8220;help&#8221; going to build a dam on the river that would provide hydro power to the country in large quantities, even if they don&#8217;t take water out of the river &#8211; but it would leave Egypt and Sudan vulnerable in the future with the ability for Ethiopia\u00a0to start diverting the water.<\/p>\n<p>Wars have been fought over much less.<\/p>\n<p>How is dirt poor Ehtiopia going to pay $4.8 billion to build a dam? Does global bankers saying &#8220;We&#8217;ll lend you the money!&#8221; ring a bell?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.newsdire.com\/news\/1864-despite-controversy-ethiopia-goes-ahead-with-48b-grand-millennium-dam.html Ethiopia is upstream on one portion of the Nile River. Back 50 years ago, England made a &#8220;treaty&#8221; between its &#8220;colonies&#8221; in Africa, giving Egypt the right to use most of the water in the Nile River, and Ethiopia &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=1266\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1268,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions\/1268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}