Reply to Comment on ‘Egypt’s water budget deficit and suggested mitigation policies for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam filling scenarios’

Abstract The reply herein shows the factual incorrectness of comment by Eladawy, Asefa and El Nour, which is primarily supported miscitations misinterpretations published research, as well claims from social media unreliable TV interviews. mistakenly ommit different components calculated total water budget deficit in our paper accordingly that it aimed to create a ‘water panic’, term derives non-quantitative subjective reading abstract. We show detail misrepresents aim, approach, results, interpretations reported original does not provide any verification on reproducibility nor offers alternative or suggested impacts conclusions remain valid unchallenged above comment.