Can and should Somalia build an Electric dam in the Shebelle and Jubba rivers

[Dowlad]

Will a dam in these rivers be able to create cheap electricity for Somalia? Better than buying electricity from Ethiopia.

 

[Thegoodshepherd]

The Shabelle does not have enough water to withstand the evaporation losses, the Shabelle valley inside Somalia is also too flat to build a dam.

A dam could be built on the Juba, but losses to evaporation would be very high considering how hot areas like Luuq and Dolo are. The money for a dam at Baardheere would be better used building a Jilib-Dolo road and some canals.

Somalia should buy hydroelectricity from Ethiopia and ask it to coordinate water releases so that Somalia receives a steady flow instead of huge fluctuations.

 

[Dowlad]

The Shabelle does not have enough water to withstand the evaporation losses, the Shabelle valley inside Somalia is also too flat to build a dam.

A dam could be built on the Juba, but losses to evaporation would be very high considering how hot areas like Luuq and Dolo are. The money for a dam at Baardheere would be better used building a Jilib-Dolo road and some canals.

Somalia should buy hydroelectricity from Ethiopia and ask it to coordinate water releases so that Somalia receives a steady flow instead of huge fluctuations.

Nobody is going to build a dam in Baardheere. Why invest where nobody lives? I am talking about near Beledweyn city. Where the power generated can go to GM, HS and Benedir.