Shabelle River running dry in Somalia
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Laagite
الداروودي
Shabelle and Juba rivers source is Ethiopia, they are building dams at the source in Oromia.
Laagite
الداروودي
Something must be done about Ethios, need an ICJ case to humble them.
Its national resource. Thanks to xarmaajo ethiopia finish it.
bidenkulaha
GalYare
It’s sad because a strong Somalia engages with Sudan and Egypt on alliance focused on destroying this dam. But when you literally have Ethiopian troops squatting in your country we have zero leverage
Less than 2 weeks ago
bidenkulaha
GalYare
3 days ago but @Jungle shared a video of a HS MP that showed the river flowing. I’d love to go see for myself lol
Jungle
VIP
Why you aint link the thread smh
The river may have dried up in afgooye but it hasnt in Jowhar, Mahadaay or Beledweyne. There is 120+ km between Afgooye and Jowhar.
The water is clearly not enough for SR/HS/KG.
Ethiopia is alot of things desperate for water is not one of them.
The Shabelle River used to regularly reach as far south as Haaway, 130 km south of Janaale. There was even an irrigation scheme there. The Shabelle river has been creeping north for the past 20 years. Haaway is today totally dependent on rainfall.
The irrigation infrastructure built in Lower Shabelle over the past 100 years is becoming defunct. Agricultural production will have to shift to Hiiraan, the only part of the Shabelle valley that will remain viable over the next 3 decades.
It is hard to imagine how big Mogadishu will become when the rural population of Lower Shabelle and Middle Shabelle urbanizes there.
Gode Zone in Ethiopia will be where almost all production will eventually end up. Even Hiiraan may end up dry in the 2050s. The Shabelle valley in DDSI is flat and has no trees. You just need to build a canal and rent a grader to create a farm from scratch. Growth could easily snowball.
The irrigation infrastructure built in Lower Shabelle over the past 100 years is becoming defunct. Agricultural production will have to shift to Hiiraan, the only part of the Shabelle valley that will remain viable over the next 3 decades.
It is hard to imagine how big Mogadishu will become when the rural population of Lower Shabelle and Middle Shabelle urbanizes there.
Gode Zone in Ethiopia will be where almost all production will eventually end up. Even Hiiraan may end up dry in the 2050s. The Shabelle valley in DDSI is flat and has no trees. You just need to build a canal and rent a grader to create a farm from scratch. Growth could easily snowball.
ZodiaK
VIP
Drill, baby, drill!
If all the rainfall stopped today and for the next 100 years in Africa, there would still be plenty of water stored underneath the continent’s surface.
Many of Africa’s agricultural endeavors have long been tied to whims of the weather. When it rains, a country’s gross domestic product might soar. When it doesn’t rain, economies suffer. The reliance has been driven in part by the perception that dry, arid Africa has limited water resources. But a new study, years in the making, shows a different reality.
Most African countries with little groundwater storage have high annual rainfall and therefore regular recharge. Conversely, many African countries with low rainfall, usually considered as water insecure, have considerable groundwater storage which was mostly recharged millennia ago.
If all the rainfall stopped today and for the next 100 years in Africa, there would still be plenty of water stored underneath the continent’s surface.
Many of Africa’s agricultural endeavors have long been tied to whims of the weather. When it rains, a country’s gross domestic product might soar. When it doesn’t rain, economies suffer. The reliance has been driven in part by the perception that dry, arid Africa has limited water resources. But a new study, years in the making, shows a different reality.
Most African countries with little groundwater storage have high annual rainfall and therefore regular recharge. Conversely, many African countries with low rainfall, usually considered as water insecure, have considerable groundwater storage which was mostly recharged millennia ago.
They have still placed damns on the sources of Somalias rivers and I don’t trust Ethiopia to not tamper with the water. I agree with you that Shabelle river is not enough, other methods are needed to supply water for the population and agriculture.
Ethiopia is also planning to grow weat, a plant that needs a lot of water and not suitable to grow in Africa. They might just redirect the water for their own use.
Using up the underwater aquifers is not good for our arid enviroment.We need desalination plants.SL could create Solar-powered Desalination plants on our extremely hot coasts.We don't need to use up our groundwater
The river hasn’t dried up but the drought is still affecting reer mahaday heavily
I dont think you realize just how much water Ethiopia already has. They have no need to redirect water from the Shabelle to the highlands(the only place with a suitable temperature to grow wheat)
The water is quite simply not enough for those three regions. Especially during low rains.
Arent most farms in Somalia rainfed?
What a disaster prone country.
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