Water scarcity is increasingly a global problem. The causes of this inadequacy are related to quantity and quality.
They include limited availability, population pressure, mass consumption, misuse, environmental degradation, pollution and climate change.
This has resulted in what is now called water politics or hydropolitics.
The latest case involves the Nile waters and has caused a standoff among Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan.
The Star spoke to Ethiopian Ambassador Meles Alem who says his country does not need permission to fill up the dam.
