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Water contract for 11 million euros for the French Safege

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ennahar 21 January, 2009 07:51:00
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- The office of French studies « Safege » won a contract of nearly 11 million euros in Algeria to study the utilization of water in septentrional Sahara, said Wednesday the National Office of Irrigation and Drainage.

  •     Safege, which promised to deliver the study within 31 months, must develop a recognition program and hydrogeological studies of capter fields "Djelfa I (275 km south of Algiers) and Grand Occidental Erg and the transfer of water from Oued Djedi near Biskra (425 km southeast of Algiers), according to ONID.

        The ONID launched on July 20 a tender for the study and utilization of water in the north of the Sahara.

        The volume of water in the aquifers of the Sahara is estimated at 60,000 billion m3, of which 40,000 billion m3 in the basement of Algeria, said the Algerian Minister of Water Resources, Abdelmalek Sellal.

        Algeria, which currently operates 1.7 billion m3 of water drawn from the ground, has launched several projects to transfer water from the Sahara to northern departments suffering from water shortages.

        Algeria has already begun implementation of an aqueduct of 740 km from Ain Salah and to Tamanrasset (extreme south).

        
    Ennaharonline/ M. O.
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Comments (2 posted):

mike on 27 January, 2009 04:57:06
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That aim of moving water from Ain Salah is amazing BUT surely it would be better to simply NOT develop Tamanrasset. I was there in 2002 and then back there last year. There were marked changes. The scale of development is simply not sustainable.
mike on 27 January, 2009 04:57:43
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That aim of moving water from Ain Salah is amazing BUT surely it would be better to simply NOT develop Tamanrasset. I was there in 2002 and then back there last year. There were marked changes. The scale of development is simply not sustainable.
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