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African Well Fund is a non-profit organization dedicated to raising funds for the construction and maintenance of freshwater wells throughout impoverished sections of Africa. It was founded in October 2002 by a group of U2 fans who were inspired by frontman Bono's May 2002 visit to poor sections of Africa along with former U.S. Secretary of the ...
Tobruk may for instance end up connected to Ajdabiya instead of to the Jaghboub well field. 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 ...
WFSS drilled five wells in Sudanese villages in the first year. Since then, over 500 [7] wells have been drilled (as of May 2021), each serving approximately 500-1,000 people and pumping 1,800 gallons of water per day. During the drilling season from December to June each year, WFSS aims to drill 40 to 50 wells, each taking 3 to 4 days to build.
The financial costs of large dams in Ethiopia that have been completed after 2009 and were scheduled to be completed until 2014 is estimated at about US$11 billion, or about one third of Ethiopia's annual GDP. This does not include the cost to build transmission lines and to expand the distribution grid.
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.
American YouTuber MrBeast’s latest video, in which he says he built 100 wells across Africa, has drawn a complex response online since it was published on Saturday.
As of January 2025, Wells of Life has funded the drilling of 928 new wells in Uganda, primarily in the Mityana, Kassanda and Mubende regions. [citation needed] Each new well costs $8,000, which includes drilling, maintenance, and repair costs. [citation needed] The wells are personalized with plaques containing information about the well's donor.
In North Africa, climate change may account for 22% of total water shortage in the region. [10] Climate change as well as socio-economic drivers are also expected to intensify water scarcity in Southern Africa as increasing temperatures and variable rainfall lead to reduced streamflows in rivers across the region. [11]