Sharing is Caring: Awash river 'canal' into Somalia

[DubatDiaries]

With the whole talk recently of “brotherly countries” and Somalia potentially making space for a port for Ethiopian use *in a way that respect Somalias sovereignty (whatever the hell that means). I think its time Somalia starts requesting “favours" on account of its geographic limitations too.

In the spirit of ‘friendship’ and ‘brotherhood’, Ethiopia is to agree on cannaling the Awash river into Somalia. This would be a great way to get a year round watercourse into the north/northeast since that entire section of Somalia has no perennial rivers or lakes and basically relies on groundwater.

Also, the river empties into a salt lake - might as well divert some of the water beforehand. Its not like you are asking for too much …..

 

[DubatDiaries]

Option A: Hargeisa, LA and Garowe. This is a guesstimate of their location on the map

Option B: Jijiga, DB, Galkacyo, Garacad or Hobyo. I like this one more ....... no reason

Never both, thats a bit of a shameless request.

 

[Qalbi-Nur]

it would work better if it is a pipeline than a canal. less cost and less evaporation in the hot sun.

 

[DubatDiaries]

it would work better if it is a pipeline than a canal. less cost and less evaporation in the hot sun.

it'd probably be cheaper, a pipeline might even better for the Hargeisa one but I am sold on the canal concept.

What I had in mind is; getting the Awash river to source the faafan (seasonal) through galbeed and extending it into Somalia artificially.

 

[Garaad.XIV]

No

Option A: Hargeisa, LA and Garowe. This is a guesstimate of their location on the map

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Option B: Jijiga, DB, Galkacyo, Garacad or Hobyo. I like this one more ....... no reason
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Never both, thats a bit of a shameless request.

No one will build a canal that long especially not in east africa

 

[𐒋𐒖𐒆𐒔𐒖𐒕𐒈]

Alternatively, for fresh water, invest in water desalination plants off the Indian ocean, then there is clean, fresh water supply all round for drinking, farming, and livestock.

For now, energy is a prohibitive factor in .So, but could be addressed with innovation and technology.

Got to love nature, Engineers at MIT, and be grateful to China for R&D.

Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water

A new solar desalination system takes in saltwater and heats it with natural sunlight. The system flushes out accumulated salt, so replacement parts aren’t needed often, meaning the system could potentially produce drinking water that is cheaper than tap water.

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