Libya’s $11 billion water lifeline
- From: Vol 11, Issue 4 (April 2010)
- Category: General
- Region: Middle East
- Country: Libya
Sixteen years after the Great Manmade River delivered its first water, the construction of the 4,000km network is at last nearing completion.
The Great Manmade River is now a complete system delivering around 2 million m3/d of groundwater from the south of Libya to agricultural irrigators and concentrated population centres on the Mediterranean coast, from Benghazi in the east to Zawia in the west. By the end of 2010, the system will be supplying a total of around 3 million m3 ...
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