Irrigation Minister Hossam Moghazi said on Saturday that a three-way committee on the Ethiopian renaissance dam has received four offers from international consultancy offices to complete hydraulic and environmental studies.
Ethiopia is building the dam on the Blue Nile River which supplies Egypt with 80 percent of its quota of Nile water.
Emerging from a meeting with his Sudanese and Ethiopian counterparts Motaz Moussa and Alemayehu Tegenu, Moghazi told reporters that experts from the three countries have started studying and assessing offers and are writing reports on them.
The tripartite committee is set to meet in Khartoum on March 4-6 to discuss the reports and name the winning international consultancy office, Moghazi said.
A British legal office will outline a legal draft of a contract the three countries will sign with the consultancy office in Addis Ababa in March, he added.
Source: MENA