For generations, the Nile has carried both water and inequality downstream — Ethiopia contributing the overwhelming share of its flow while Egypt harvests the overwhelming share of its benefit. Now, former Ethiopian water minister Shiferaw Jarso is calling on his government to name that imbalance formally and demand compensation, framing the claim not as provocation but as a correction long deferred. His argument arrives at a moment when Ethiopia's diplomatic confidence and engineering capacity have grown enough to make the demand credible, and when the question of who owns a river's value may