Egypt may no longer be rhetorically called “the gift of the Nile” after official attempts to mitigate the repercussions of the long-contentious Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the country’s water security have seemingly failed. As the fifth and final filling of GERD, a massive hydropower plant on the River Nile that authorities argue gravely threatens Egypt’s livelihood, negotiations between Cairo and Addis seem to have reached an impasse. An Egyptian intelligence official told The New Arab that “the GERD file has almost been closed after all talks failed due to Ethiopia’s intransige…