In a March 07, 2021 feature that was televised on the Ethiopian Satellite Television,under a title, "The Abbay River and Sources of Ethiopia's All rounded Challenges", Dr. Amare Bantider, An Associate Professor at the College of Development Studies, Addis Ababa University, and Natural Resource Governance and Socioeconomic Research Division Head at the Water and Land Resource Centre of Addis Ababa University, discusses the vitality of giving utmost attention to ILM in the context of sustainable management of the Abbay Basin in general and of the GERD in particular. The substantive discussion he and Dr. Zewdu Eshetu, Water and Climate Change Researcher at Natural Science College of AAU, had with the ESAT Journalist is available on you tube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2Jmid-uCBk&t=2874s