Work begins on new water supply pipeline for Hargeisa

[Atlantic]

Work begins on new water supply pipeline for Hargeisa



Hargeisa, 20 September 2015– The European Union, Somaliland Development Fund, UN-Habitat, and the Government of Somaliland on Sunday inaugurated the start of installation works for the new 23-km water supply pipeline from Geed Deeble to Hargeisa. On completion in 2017, the project will increase the amount of water available for Hargeisa city from 9 million to 14.5 million litres per day.

The Hargeisa Urban Water Supply Upgrading Project (HUWSUP) is jointly funded by the European Union and the Somaliland Development Fund to the tune of EUR 15 million and USD 8.6 million respectively. The project is implemented by UN-Habitat, in partnership with the Hargeisa Water Agency and the Somaliland Ministry of Water Resources.

The overall objective of the project is to improve access to safe and affordable water and the livelihoods of vulnerable households in urban and peri-urban areas of Hargeisa city, through the expanded supply of drinking water from sustainable water sources and the associated creation of employment opportunities. Adequate water supply is a fundamental prerequisite for economic growth at the individual, household, enterprise, and collective level.

The new water pipeline replaces the 40-year-old existing pipeline system with a new high-capacity single-transmission main, thus bringing more water into the municipal system. The new water supply pipeline, together with the new Geed Deeble pumping station that will be constructed over the coming 12 months, is designed for a capacity of 20 million litres of water per day. As a first step to increase the water production, four new boreholes at Hora Haadley are currently nearing completion, with very promising yields.

The project is expected to be completed by January 2017. These important infrastructure works will lay the foundation for other ongoing and future water expansion works that will contribute to achieving the full potential of the new Hargeisa water system: drilling additional boreholes, connecting additional well fields, and upgrading the distribution network to deliver water to areas of the city that have so far been underserved.

http://unhabitat.org/work-begins-on-new ... -hargeisa/

So much for iidoor propaganda of self-sufficiency.

Somaliland Development Fund

THE UNITED STATES AND SOMALILAND COLLABORATE ON WIND ENERGY PROJECT TO POWER HARGEISA EGAL INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

https://www.usaid.gov/somalia/press-rel ... gy-project

Examples of EU Projects in Somaliland

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_ME ... ?locale=en

[AwRastaale]

Not bad development but Hargeisa needs to dream bigger and better.

If we keep digging in this manner, we going to need about 15-20 wells each with a depth of 600 metres just for Hargeisa alone. That is not cheap nor sustainable. Keep digging is not the answer.

I know in the past I proposed the idea of port for water with Ethiopia. Many of the local residents did not get it insisting they use the already dwelling underground reservoirs.

I believe that is not an intelligent idea. Your goal should always be use others' resources who are willing to sell it to you while you reserve yours.

My idea is 350km pipeline to Gewane or other woredas in Ethiopia. Set up water station including bacteria, chemical and other hazard control labs in Wajaale.



Have two reservoirs; one for tested and approved waters (outgoing) and one for straight from Ethiopia (intakes).

The good water should be used to water the land in order to restore damaged soil and water table. Let it soak it for good number of years. Build walls and other barriers to control soil degradation and slow down sand migration. Introduce large vegetations or plants to break the wind so not as much sand is on the move removing soil or burying good seeds.



Then once you have taken good control you can utilize the local resources but just taking it away again and again----will just turn the land into new Sahara. It is inevitable.

The rain water should be stored too and used not only for drinking and irrigation but to restore the soil instead of exiting to the ocean. Overall better education starting from primary school and better management schemes are needed.

This is a small step but one that may address the current shortage. It is a temporary fix like the one that pre-dated (current system). Bigger dreams and more open mindedness and diverse solutions are needed in place.

School engineers should be given small town projects to go build dams.

[Strategic]

AWras

somaliland has a huge water reservoir beneath its feet.why run to a shithole country like ethiopia for water,it is not like water is oil .

[AwRastaale]

Blood,

I believe we need to look at the whole water cycle and diversify sources. Before we tap into the underground reservoirs, we should restore some of the surface water and ecosystem.

If Ethiopia is willing to sell its vast water sources at a decent rate, I don't see the issue. You can keep your caano geel, and still drink the neighbour's cow milk.

The more we reserve and store, the better.

The underground solution is no cheaper.

I know some of the brothers want to rush into the pantry and empty it but the soil is crying for a break.

My method is for us to first flood/infiltrate our soil (in liman irrigation method) with water from Ethiopia's hinterland...this allows us to restore water table, restore ecosystem and bring about natural bio-filters.


The runoff water is slowed down by a dam, thus flooding a small area and allowing the water to infiltrate into the soil. This way, a small groves of trees can be sustained in the desert.


bio-filters or natural purifications and just letting the soil soak up rather than just taking it away again and again from already depleting underground water beyond 600m.

That's my method anyways and I understand many of our people just like to use what they know or go where they know and just re-take the same steps and be in the same ordeal.

I believe import some, let some soil recover, let some trees re-grow, let few clouds return, let few birds re-nest...embrace the floods. Overall we should consider all options and explore all means to give our people better future not just what they consume today but into the long distance future.

[drobbah]

Awrastaale thats a very good idea.Hopefully we do that in areas in Gabiley region aswell

[gurey25]

not needed.
why?
because 90% of the rains we get are either lost through evaporation , very little of it ends up in the aquifiers and for our use.
Rainwater harvesting techniques like check dams, and sand dams will in as little as a decade recharge the water table to how it was 50 years ago.

its been in done in arid regions with conditions like somaliland.

no need for massive water pipes that will cost billions.
we do not even need electricity from ethiopia, our wind potential alone is greater than what we can buy from ethiopia.

with proper management we can turn our deserts back into productive grasslands,
and turn our grassland into superior grassland that can hold more animals.

imagine multiplying the number of sheep and cattle by 5 times while iproving the land in the same place.

its all been proven to work all over the world.

Alan Savory's holistic management which is planned mob grazing, and keyline management from australia.
combine that with a large number of check dams and sand dams and link them with pipelines to the keylines and you will get amazing results.
even better using swales along with keylines will be better for somalia, imagaine all those flash floods captured and stored in the soil.

imagine what all that water and animal manure and grass cover will do to the land, within 10 years you can turn good grass land into excellent farmland for grains.
right now we have ~45,000 hectares in the gabiley ahrgaiesa region, and another 15,000 around
no more than 60,000 good grains growing land in Somaliland.
Imagine what we could do with 600,000 hectares ? or 1.2 million?
we would be exporting food..
and livetsock 5 times the number we have now.

[theyuusuf143]

Hawdian theory is crazy. Why do we need water from ethiopia when we have enough water in every Region. We just need to dig more walls and dams next couple of years.

[gurey25]

Hawdian theory is crazy. Why do we need water from ethiopia when we have enough water in every Region. We just need to dig more walls and dams next couple of years.

digging is not the answer we are already digging like crazy. all that well water will runout sooner or later.
the answer is rainwater catchment.
all you need is fir 25mm of rain to fall and stay on the land for good grass and bush to grow.
in hargeisa and borame and ceergabo you get 500-600mm of rain. 350-500 in most of toghdeer and even the driest part of the guban and the nugaal valley get 100 - 150 mm.
remember you need at least 25mm to stay on the land and sink in.
a half hearted somali style campain can reduce drought conditions all over and nake life bearable for allot of people.
a professional campain with 15,000 -20,000 check dams and sand dams all over somali will take 5 years to build cost aroubd 200 million dollars and taknowe the labour of 50,000 unskilled manpower.
we have millions of unemployed.
in 20-30 years of rains you will get a veritable paradise
imagine the toghdeer abd waheen and many others flowing all year around!!.
sounds like fantasy but uts already happened in rajastan india in a region slightly drier than maroodijeex.
look up tge district of alwar in rajhastan india .
all that I described happened between 1985 and 2015.

[JSL3000]

50 million dollars for just a extra 5.5 million water per day, those pipes are expensive.

[theyuusuf143]

Hawdian theory is crazy. Why do we need water from ethiopia when we have enough water in every Region. We just need to dig more walls and dams next couple of years.

digging is not the answer we are already digging like crazy. all that well water will runout sooner or later.
the answer is rainwater catchment.
all you need is fir 25mm of rain to fall and stay on the land for good grass and bush to grow.
in hargeisa and borame and ceergabo you get 500-600mm of rain. 350-500 in most of toghdeer and even the driest part of the guban and the nugaal valley get 100 - 150 mm.
remember you need at least 25mm to stay on the land and sink in.
a half hearted somali style campain can reduce drought conditions all over and nake life bearable for allot of people.
a professional campain with 15,000 -20,000 check dams and sand dams all over somali will take 5 years to build cost aroubd 200 million dollars and taknowe the labour of 50,000 unskilled manpower.
we have millions of unemployed.
in 20-30 years of rains you will get a veritable paradise
imagine the toghdeer abd waheen and many others flowing all year around!!.
sounds like fantasy but uts already happened in rajastan india in a region slightly drier than maroodijeex.
look up tge district of alwar in rajhastan india .
all that I described happened between 1985 and 2015.

You know our people can be mobilized better than any other, sure we can do all of the above things. i think they are know focused more about roads. if the next goverment comes with new development strategy We can implement those goals. the goverment should bring machineries only and every juffi will work for their own Deegaan voluntarly.

[Atlantic]

iidoors on this forum are such cowards, the moderators are now censoring my posts. Links proving iidoors received foreign aid for the drought in 2010 and 2012 are unacceptable for the iidoor moderators.

[AwRastaale]

Sahan,

You making sense and the important thing is to have a debate and study all options.

Even when it's there one still has to atleast locate a back-up plan. Fikirkas kuma jiro dadkena. I have it is the answer even when they don't have it.

Adigo jebka kugu jirto aya hadana mel kale leska so yara dhalaliiya.

Our friend TheYuusuf thinks the water below is like an endless ocean.

What you said is logical sxb.

Gurey,

Valid points.

[JSL3000]

I believe we should adopt the saltwater farming methods in eritrea that should boost are harvest for food crops for livestock and more this is definitely good for guban plains coastline

"Saltwater agriculture is considered a futuristic area. ... in countries including Mexico, Pakistan, Jordan and Eritrea."

As seas rise, saltwater plants offer hope for farms


http://m.trivalleycentral.com/mobile/tr ... 4be41.html

[original dervish]

These self sufficiency projects are not attractive to politicians, whom prefer to cream off useless token foreign aid.

[LiquidHYDROGEN]

Every tuulo can build a large catchment reservoir. Every tuulo can afford sand dams and underground reservoirs. All they need is to put down their guns and pick up shovels.

Lol@hawdian trying make us even more reliant on mama ethiopia. Why don't you just change the flag and language to amharic and call it a day?