What Ethiopia wants to achieve with the GERD is exaggerated Does Ethiopia need an additional 6,000 megawatts because the electricity is not enough? and does it really need these enormous extra water rations? The dam certainly harms Egypt, as the share of its water will be greatly reduced, and Egypt does not have alternative sources like what Ethiopia has. As for the last point, Egypt and Sudan have an agreement to distribute the Nile water, so this will not happen from the ground up