French engineering, design and project management firm Artelia has been picked to replace Deltares—an independent Dutch institute for applied research in water and subsurface—in a contract to study the impact of the $4 billion Great Ethiopia Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the flow of the Nile River.
The Tripartite National Committee (TNC) of Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia selected Artelia on Dec. 29 after a three-day meeting in Sudan’s capital Khartoum attended by water and foreign ministers from the three countries.