British Geological Survey: Oodweyne has one of the largest underground water in Africa

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Bohol

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The Oodweyne/Western Togdheer/East Hargeisa area apparently has one of the largest underground
Aquifier in Horn of Africa. Congrats to our west Burco brothers, your ancestors must have been smart
settling in that land.






We'll drink to that: Massive underground reserves of water found in some of Africa's driest areas - including the Sahara Desert

  • Researchers estimate that reserves of groundwater across the continent are 100 times the amount found on its surface

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...assive-underground-reserves-water-Africa.html
 
Bohol

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Since the water inside is deep inside the ground it will cost a lot to get it out in the
future.


This is a area called Harada Ceeg in Western Togdheer, in the rainy season the place becomes like a mini sea
 
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Just curious, if that part of Somalia has all this water deposits, than why is there always a water shortage?

Another thing, in most parts of Waqooyi Galbeed, the drinking water isn't really good consumption.

They are called heavy water (biyo culus) and have alot sediment deposits.

Ever wonder why people from Hargeisa, Burco and Berbera have those discoloration in their teeth?

Its because the drinking water has a lot of minerals and isn't filtered.
 
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@Game What water shortage? Burco has a abundance of water, you're mistaking it with Hargeisa, which is due
to the low levels of underground water (as it is shown in this map it is yellow) furthermore I believe the reason
Hargeisa soil doesn't absorb water is because it is too rocky and hard. To tap this large underground water
reserve of Oodweyne region the proper equipment is needed first as it is not a piece of cake but the ground
has to be drilled several KMs.
 
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Game said:
Just curious, if that part of Somalia has all this water deposits, than why is there always a water shortage?

Another thing, in most parts of Waqooyi Galbeed, the drinking water isn't really good consumption.

They are called heavy water (biyo culus) and have alot sediment deposits.

Ever wonder why people from Hargeisa, Burco and Berbera have those discoloration in their teeth?

Its because the drinking water has a lot of minerals and isn't filtered.
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It's deep underground. They can't use what they can't access.
 
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Deep underground that they can't use it? Well that doesn't stop anyone else in Somalia from getting water out.

The whole Waqooyi Galbeed gets an annual rainfall of 4". Look it up on Google.

Its so bad that when my friend went to Hargeisa in 2011, he said the locals are allowed to shower once a week, because of the water restrictions.

Hargeisa's infrastructure was only built for 200,000 people. But there are almost x3 as many people living there.
 
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Game said:
Deep underground that they can't use it? Well that doesn't stop anyone else in Somalia from getting water out.

The whole Waqooyi Galbeed gets an annual rainfall of 4". Look it up on Google.

Its so bad that when my friend went to Hargeisa in 2011, he said the locals are allowed to shower once a week, because of the water restrictions.

Hargeisa's infrastructure was only built for 200,000 people. But there are almost x3 as many people living there.
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Yes, it is that deep. What is on this map is not accessible through simple means and it's not comparible to other water sources in the region.
 
Bohol

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There is a different depths of deep underground, your usual water drilling rig won't work you need
something that digs deeper to tap that kind of resources similar to how Kenya found the Turkana
underground reserve just few years ago. Hargeisa gets it water from a place called Geed
Deeble or Biyaha shiinaha ( the Chinese built water pipes that got old). Personally If I
was in charge I would drill the large underground water in Oodweyne then create a pipe
to serve Hargeisa's large population.
 
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Again, without a rainfall, aquifers get depleted. And the reasons you have to dig further and further down is because all other wells have ran dry and u reach further down.
 
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Game said:
Again, without a rainfall, aquifers get depleted. And the reasons you have to dig further and further down is because all other wells have ran dry and u reach further down.
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Ceerigaabo, Sheikh and many Somaliland cities get higher rainfall than southern Somalia. That isn't a problem at all,
every year we have flash floods due to the amount of rain water. The problem is like you said earlier management,
we need reservoirs, dams etc.
 
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:westbrookwtf: Did this just say people were only allowed to shower once a week? Sxb let me tell you something, the whole north has oceans of groundwater, mainly togdheer. Hargeysa water shortages only happen to people who can't afford it. Maybe your friend wasn't paying bills, or for the booyad to come fill his water tank.

People die from flash floods in hargeysa, somaliland has plentiful rain alxamdulilah. The government just needs to build check dams along the dry river beds that go throughout the entire country
 
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the only proven aquifier is in jubba area the border b.w kenya and somalia but if this is true then welcome news hope it doesnt become like that oil myth,
 
blood

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for some 1 who drinks 90 litres of water per month,showers with 5 times that amount in one week i know why water is important
 
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waraabe
hawiye sits on the largest natural gas deposits in the horn,that is why amisom was sent to loot.
 
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It doesn't matter who where or what has gas oil or gold if a foreign company is going to come in and swoop up literally 90% of the profits.
 
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