Lake Chad replenishment project
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Lake Chad replenishment project
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The Lake Chad replenishment project is a proposed major water diversion scheme to divert water from the Congo River basin to Lake Chad to prevent it drying up. Various versions have been proposed. Most would involve damming some of the right tributaries of the Congo River and channeling some of the water to Lake Chad via a canal to the Chari River basin. It was first proposed in 1929 by Herman Sörgel as part of his Atlantropa project, as a way to irrigate the Sahara. In the 1960s, Lake Chad bega
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Proposed major water diversion scheme to prevent the drying up of Lake Chad
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Chad_replenishment_project
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2024-02-20T22:45:04Z
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