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Because there isn't enough dams "upstream" in the #Abay water shade, their is limited flood control especially in heavy raining season like this yr.
#Egypt has many dams that prevent catastrophic flooding downstream along the Nile river. #Sudan is the most vulnerable right now.
#Egypt has many dams that prevent catastrophic flooding downstream along the Nile river. #Sudan is the most vulnerable right now.
Where the need is greatest #GERD will help, but even more is needed.
#GERD will help mitigate some of this flooding in heavy years, but in the heavies year more needs to be done.
#Sudan needs to look at perhaps larger reservoirs behind their dams on the white and blue Nile.
#GERD will help mitigate some of this flooding in heavy years, but in the heavies year more needs to be done.
#Sudan needs to look at perhaps larger reservoirs behind their dams on the white and blue Nile.
Also we should think about more upstream dam's in #Abay to protect #Sudan, when the #Abay
reservoir can't contain the flooding.
Our systems would be used in heavy consultation with #Sudan in yrs like this to prevent catastrophic flooding.
reservoir can't contain the flooding.
Our systems would be used in heavy consultation with #Sudan in yrs like this to prevent catastrophic flooding.
These smaller dam's would remain open in most years, but could be closed in a very wet season like this year and then coordinated with #GERD and Sudan's government to control the release of the water after the raining season has passed.
Image: The dam on the right hand side
Image: The dam on the right hand side
Combined with the reservoirs system of the #GERD these additional dams will protect Sudanese people and farmers. Flood years will be turn into boom years for Sudanese and Egyptian farmers.
Normally in flood years what #Sudan gets is heavy property destruction and overwhelmed fields. For #Egypt this heavy years lead to excess flow of water. Both countries would have longer growing seasons because this heavy water flow would be released over a longer period of time.
This way in very rainy seasons Sudan and Egypt will get longer growing seasons for agriculture instead of the water flooding #Sudan and flowing excessively to the Mediterranean Sea and lost.
This benefits everyone along the #Abay in the Nile river system.
This benefits everyone along the #Abay in the Nile river system.
"Heavy rains in Sudan flooded the White Nile between August 3-11, 2003.
The flooding has displaced 13,000 people, leaving more than 3,000 homeless, and destroying crops."
Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
The flooding has displaced 13,000 people, leaving more than 3,000 homeless, and destroying crops."
Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
"From the start of the rains in early July to September 4, 122 people died and at least 200,000 were made homeless in floods throughout the country, reported Reuters." - 2007
NASA images courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC, which provides daily images of Sudan.
NASA images courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC, which provides daily images of Sudan.
"In the wake of a series of downpours in August 2019, Sudan faces widespread flooding. By mid-September, relief agencies and news organizations were reporting flooding in 16 of Sudan’s 18 states."
NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin
NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin
