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The Great Man-Made River Project (GMRP) was conceived in the late 1960s and work on the project began in 1984. The project's construction was divided into five phases. The first phase required 85 million m³ of excavation and was inaugurated on 28 August 1991. The second phase (dubbed First water to Tripoli) was inaugurated on 1 September 1996.
The transport of pipe segments for the Great Man-Made River (GMMR) in the Sahara desert, Libya, during the 1980s.A network of pipes that supplies water from the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System, a fossil aquifer in the Sahara desert of Libya, the GMMR is the world's largest irrigation project.
The Great Man-made River Project, designed to bring water from fossil aquifers beneath the Sahara, has no long-term viability because of the finite nature of the fossil reserves. A major environmental concern in Libya is the depletion of underground water as a result of overuse in agricultural developments, causing salinity and sea-water ...
The unique Tokaanu Tailrace Bridge, a combined road and water bridge crosses a power canal of the Tongariro Power Scheme in the North Island of New Zealand. State Highway 41 travels along the top of this bridge, with the Tokaanu Stream, an important trout spawning stream, running under the road surface.
The Great Stink of London in 1858. One summer the heat dried up the River Thames (where all the human waste went) and an unbearable smell pervaded throughout the entire city.
Project 2025 is an ultra-conservative playbook and policy wish list for a second Trump presidency. The 922-page book outlines policy goals, but its potential impacts aren't easily identifiable.
City’s historic preservation board Tuesday will review new analysis of what experts contend may constitute most significant archaeological finds made in Brickell area in 25 years.
The project is known as the Great Manmade River Project, hence the project name is usually shortened to GMRP, with a number added to denote the phase of construction. For example GMRP-2 was the construction of three wellfields near the Jabal Hasuna mountain range and a transfer pipeline north to Tripoli.