Could groundwater drilling solve the drought problems in the Horn of Africa?

[Kool-Aid]

 

[Juke]

Wow 2000 to 5000 meters is pretty deep

>50 year supply and ever increasing supply with increasing rains sounds very promising

 

[Man with a garuun]

Nope, it is sand dams that can resolve most of water problems in Africa.

 

[Guled111]

How much to build a well in Somalia.

Give me a perfect price range without corruption. I also want it built with good quality since there no repair men in the badio or empty land.

 

[Guled111]

Wow 2000 to 5000 meters is pretty deep

>50 year supply and ever increasing supply with increasing rains sounds very promising

Rwanda, Burundi and uganda are running out of ground water in the future

 

[GemState]

Wow 2000 to 5000 meters is pretty deep

>50 year supply and ever increasing supply with increasing rains sounds very promising

So many possibilities if only Africa had competent leadership

 

[ZBR]

No and that’s extremely wreckless and dangerous

that water took hundreds of thousands of years to accumulate and would get consumed much faster than it replenished

also it can cause ground tremors earthquakes and volcanic activity

 

[Nilotic]

Managed aquifer recharge (MAR) is the future of water storage.

Aquifers hold more water; are significantly cheaper than surface storage methods; aquifers do not present the sort of safety risks that dams present; there is no displacement of tens of thousands of people; no ecological damage; no evaporation; and no sedimentation that would eventually cause the dam to lose a quarter of its capacity



South Sudan has an extensive network of aquifers that span over 365, 000 km2 -- more than half of our territory.

In addition to that, we receive 580, 000 gigalitres of rain, so we should construct inexpensive recharge basins around the unconfined aquifers to make use of some of that vast amounts of water; confined aquifers can be replenished using direct injection, however, that method is far more expensive but should be utilised as well.


Our rivers, lakes and many tributaries should be used to recharge the network of aquifers in South Sudan

The Vast Potential for Storage in Aquifers
No one knows the exact amount of water that can be stored within California’s 515 groundwater basins. California’s Department of Water Resources estimates the total storage capacity at somewhere between 850 million and 1.3 billion acre-feet. In comparison, surface storage from all the major reservoirs in California is less than 50 million acre-feet.

https://waterinthewest.stanford.edu/groundwater/recharge/

 

[GemState]

Managed aquifer recharge (MAR) is the future of water storage.

Aquifers hold more water; are significantly cheaper than surface storage methods; aquifers do not present the sort of safety risks that dams present; there is no displacement of tens of thousands of people; no ecological damage; no evaporation; and no sedimentation that would eventually cause the dam to lose a quarter of its capacity



South Sudan has an extensive network of aquifers that span over 365, 000 km2 -- more than half of our territory.

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In addition to that, we receive 580, 000 gigalitres of rain, so we should construct inexpensive recharge basins around the unconfined aquifers to make use of some of that vast amounts of water; confined aquifers can be replenished using direct injection, however, that method is far more expensive but should be utilised as well.


Our rivers, lakes and many tributaries should be used to recharge the network of aquifers in South Sudan


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https://waterinthewest.stanford.edu/groundwater/recharge/

blessed lands

 

[Nilotic]

blessed lands

Our Southern States (Equatoria region) shares an extensive border with resource rich DRC, so I expect that we will also find a great deal of mineral wealth in those regions as well...

..With the exception of the oil industry, no geological surveys have been conducted in South Sudan since the late 70s/early 80s.

The only thing that South Sudan lacks is access to the sea, however, if the EAC becomes a true customs union, we will gain all the benefits of access to the sea.