Merowe Dam

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Merowe Dam’s Project is a multipurpose scheme for hydropower generation. It is basically intended for generating hydropower. The Dam civil work is located at the fourth cataract on the River Nile at Merowe. There has been many feasibility studies done on the project in the past decades. The most recent studies were conducted by Monenco-Agra Company, Canada, in 1993, and the Hydro-project Institute, Russia, in 1999. The project has a high priority in the National Comprehensive Strategy, because the country is suffering from an acute shortage of electricity power, which impedes the economical and social development.www.merowedam.gov.sd/en/index.php
Construction project reported to cost 1200 million Euros. Once it is finished in 2008, the Merowe Dam is intended to roughly double
Sudan’s power supply and help irrigate land that is now barely arable. Sudan’s leaders see it as a symbol of the country’s future. Local
populations have been flooded out as of August 2006; they are supposed to be resettled in areas that are currently desert.
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