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The Great Man-Made River (GMMR, Arabic: النهر الصناعي العظيم, romanized: an-nahr aṣ-ṣināʿiyy al-ʿaẓīm, Italian: Grande fiume artificiale) is a network of pipes that supplies fresh water obtained from the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System fossil aquifer across Libya. It is the world's largest irrigation project. [1]
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 ...
Its course is today divided into seven sections. From south to north these are the Jiangnan Canal, the Li Canal, the Inner Canal, the Middle Canal, the Lu Canal, the South Canal, the North Canal, and the Tonghui River. Man-Made Lake Lianhu. Training Lake "Lianhu" was used to feed water to the Grand Canal section near Jiangnan.
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.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 January 2025. Unofficial title sometimes given to places, buildings, structures, projects or designs For other uses, see Wonders of the World (disambiguation) and Eighth Wonder (disambiguation). Eighth Wonder of the World is an unofficial title sometimes given to new buildings, structures, projects ...
GRAND Canal or Great Recycling and Northern Development Canal, proposed for Great Lakes region of North America; The proposed Pan Korea Grand Waterway (한반도 대운하) in South Korea, sometimes referred to as the "Grand Canal" The proposed Nicaragua Grand Canal that would link the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean; The Great Man-Made ...
The official title, as reflected in the text, is Great Man-Made River. I don't know how to change a title, but it should be changed as it is confusing, and many people use Wikipedia to check this sort of thing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vedah Eulalia (talk • contribs) 16:13, 14 March 2013 (UTC)