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Sudan is a country that is half desert and much of the population suffers from a shortage of clean drinking water as well as a reliable source of water for agriculture. With the Nile river in the east of the country, parts of Sudan have substantial water resources, but those in the west have to rely on wadis, seasonal wells which often dry up ...
Port Sudan and the area surrounding it could suffer from severe drinking water shortages due to the collapse of the dam emptying the region's water supply and damaging or destroying water infrastructure. [3] [4] Red Sea State head of water resources Amr Eissa Taher referred to the damage caused by the subsequent flooding as "extensive". [8]
This list of water supply and sanitation by country provides information on the status of water supply and sanitation at a national or, in some cases, also regional level. Water supply and sanitation by country
Elsewhere in the eastern Red Sea State, the Arbaat Dam collapsed on Sunday, threatening the freshwater supply for Port Sudan, the country's de facto capital, up to now a relative refuge for the ...
The Khashm el-Girba Dam is a gravity and embankment composite dam on the Atbarah River about 4 km (2 mi) south of Khashm El Girba in Eastern Sudan. The primary purpose of the dam is irrigation. [1] The dam is equipped with canal headworks, located on its left bank, which divert water into a canal.
The dam has a length of about 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) and a crest height of up to 67 metres (220 ft). It consists of concrete-faced rockfill dams on each river bank (the right bank dam is the largest part of the project, 4.3 km long and 53m high; the left bank is 1590 metres long and 50 metres high), an 883-metre (2,897 ft)-long 67-metre (220 ft)-high earth-core rockfill dam (the 'main dam') in ...
GENEVA (Reuters) -Mass starvation is a "very real risk" in some regions of war-torn Sudan, where conflict has made medical aid broadly unavailable, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO ...
Category: Water supply and sanitation in Sudan. 1 language. ... Reservoirs in Sudan (2 C, 2 P) This page was last edited on 13 March 2024, at 22:01 (UTC). ...