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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 ...
Over 30,000 displaced in devastating flooding making it the worst disaster of 2023 so far
The Great Man-Made River (GMMR) is one such aquifer example and provides Libya with 60% of its water resources [8]. It is the largest underground irrigation project in the world. However, the project’s construction allows it to tap into and exploit non-renewable aquifers, which cannot be recharged by precipitation events [8]. Therefore, the ...
It also combined with poor maintenance of the broken dams and because the city is built on floodplains, exposing thousands of homes.
Floods like the one in Greece and Libya now ‘reasonably common’ due to climate crisis, study finds Climate crisis made devastating Libya flooding ‘50 times more likely’ Skip to main content
1.3 Libya. 1.4 South Africa. 1.5 Sudan. 1.6 Tunisia. ... Great Man-Made River; South Africa ... Pont du Gard seen from the river Gardon.