My hand hasn’t left the post. The water sits between two of its marks, and neither one will claim it.
On September 21, 2026, Egypt’s irrigation minister called the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam illegitimate, answering Ethiopia’s water minister, who had described its dams as a way of controlling the water. Two governments, one river, and neither reads it the way the other does.
Down here, an old gauge repainted by hands I never met, and a waterline that won’t sit on any of their marks. My hand hasn’t picked a mark yet either.
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