Egypt received on Saturday a report from the tripartite technical committee on Ethiopia's Renaissance Dam intended to be built on the River Nile, official news agency MENA reported.

"Copies of the report have been sent to the Egyptian presidency, the ministries of foreign affairs, water resources ministry and irrigation as well as other institutions concerned with the Nile water issue," MENA quoted a well-placed source as saying.

Egyptian state TV said on Saturday that the report urged more consultations between the three concerned states on the issue, recommending more sufficient studies on the dam.

On Tuesday, Ethiopia started diverting the course of the Blue Nile, one of the River Nile's two basic tributaries, as a preparatory step for building the Grand Renaissance Dam, a move that raised concerns in Egypt over its share of water as a downstream Nile Basin country besides Sudan.

A technical committee of the three countries, Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan, has been studying the dam and its effects on water shares of Nile Basin countries.

On Friday, Egyptian Prime Minister Hesham Qandil held talks with his Ethiopian counterpart Hailemariam Desalegn in Japan on the sidelines of an international conference on African development, where they exchanged views on the dam. Qandil told Egyptian state TV that his Ethiopian counterpart asserted "the dam would not affect Egypt's share of Nile water."

However, Some experts believe the dam will cause Egypt great harms, including shortage of Nile water, drying agricultural lands, increasing Nile Delta soil salinity and reducing Egypt's High Dam power generation. They further say it may cause Egypt a loss of 10 billion cubic meters of its annual share of the River Nile water, which is 55.5 billion cubic meters.