Resource Management

Question 1

Where was the great man made river built?

Answer 1

In Libya

Question 2

Why was the great man made river built?

Answer 2

It provided water security by transporting fresh water from the Nubian sandstone aquifer to Tripoli and Benghazi

Question 3

What are the advantages of the great man made river?

Answer 3

Transported 6.5 million m3 of water per day
Irrigated crops
Helped increase employment

Question 4

What are the disadvantages of the great man made river?

Answer 4

Phase 1 of 5 cost $14 bn
Targeted by NATO war planes in civil war
Costly to maintain

Question 5

What were the 4 strategies implemented in the wakel river basin project?

Answer 5

Education of local people in rainwater harvesting
Taankas
Pats
Joheds

Question 6

What are taankas?

Answer 6

They collect and store rainwater
Can hold up to 50,000 litres
Easy to maintain

Question 7

What are pats?

Answer 7

Divert water to irrigate fields using a bund
Made of stones and leaves

Question 8

What are joheds?

Answer 8

Small earth dams to collect rainwater
Prevents rivers from drying up

Question 9

Why was the wakel river basin project needed?

Answer 9

Arid climate and growing poor population resulted in over - abstraction of water