spectacular scenery from the floodplain

[sahal80]

look these mountains it needs water diversion for lakes

[sahal80]

close to xadka itoobiya i can see burdhiinle

[Voltage]

Those flood plains maken CAABUDWAAQ possible
They make GAALKACYO possible. Heck they make GAROWE possible right up to Karkaar Mtns.

Going west, they make all of NUGAAL possible, Laas Caanood-Buuhoodle even all the way to Burco and Oodweyne, everything south of the coastal stretch of Bosaaso-Las Qpray-Erigavo-Berbera

You take the entire land between the Kaarkaar Mtn rage separating the coast from the continental shelf and you go down the entire central Somali peninsula plateau, people have no idea just the reach of the Shabelle environmental system

They think only Beled-Weyne or Khelafo when they think Shabelle, but no one thinks about the extent of flood plain systematics... no one thinks CAABUDWAAQ-Dhusamarev-Gaalkaco-Galaadi-Wardheer-Burco-Las Canod-Garowe

We only notice flooding when it hits urban settlements, but the River has HIGH FLOW for a benefit, the floor plains!!!

Way beyond the actual river, high flow pushes fertil soil, sediment, and precipitation until a vast basin

AND THEN IN TURN the contribution to the water cycle in further run off amd increased condensation creates further precipitation that feeds closed basins connected to o the flood plains

In Somali lands, those closed basins are WAR, BALI, TOG, GUBBET, etc even the made catchments like Berkad never mind the boreholes.

Caabudwaaq, Dhusamareb, Gaalkacyo, Buuhoodle, Oodweyne depend on that system fed by the flood basin fed by the RIVER SHABELLE.

Beled-Weyne is directly affected by immediate flooding, but virtually the entire population of Somalia (and eastern Ethiopia) existentially lives on the Shabelle.

Just like the Nile depends on the White Nile and Blue Nile, and Jubba depends on Dawa and Ganane, Shabelle depends on the Errer and Faafan.

The Faafan is almost dead.

It went from direct tributaries reaching Balanbale, to now not even reaching the Shabelle except in years where is heaving flooding.

Like all of the world, we are blind to the looming climate disaster. In particular, Somalis who don't even contribute 0.001% of carbon population are the least prepared and most vulnerable like many others in that category.

The Shabelle is dying a slow death pending some monumental climate developmemt either technology or naturally.

I, myself, am looking for answers.

[Voltage]

Sahal have you ever thought about GIS ( Geographic Information Systems)?

[sahal80]

kkkk markaa isku dhex yaaxi jirtaa la gaarey!

dhulka somalia magacyo badan uu leeyahay side deexo(sandy) gawraar(mountains) dulo(alluvial plans/ caro madow) waa dhul dooxo/caduun/hawd dhulka miraha leh togoga/balayada and good for grazing lands and water for living

banka qoraxey togag baa mara laakin maaha alluvial plains iyo dhulbeereed ama cara madow its just good for grazing galgaduudna deexo ay u badan tahay iyo caro gaduud

http://www.faoswalim.org/land/soils-somalia

alluvial plains ka waxay ka sameysmeen dhoobada floods ka keenaan marka maslaxadna waa ku jirtaa oo dhulbeereed baa ka samaysma dhibaatana waa ku jirtaa oo baladweyne oo kale waa meel low lying ah oo beera loogu talo galay wabigana sida maskiii uu ugu noqnoqdaa dhamaan xaafadaha marka maaha meel ay dad aan technologya heesan degaan. macluumaatkaad sheegtay faaidada floodska intaanba ku sheegay
"the colour of the river is yellow when its new because huge amounts of alluvium turn the water that colour but this is good for farming because the deposit of clay left by flowing water will produce fertile soil. "
https://www.somalinet.com/forums/viewto ... 7#p4818209

[Voltage]

No, no , no. Misunderstanding is what this is called.

You are correct as a general matter by naming the different LIVELIHOOD zones

But you misunderstood my point because I never said the FLOOD PLAINS are what reaches those places.

The flood plains are limited, maybe up to Ulasan or Laba Baar, certainly doesn't even reach Matabaan.

The Flood Plains at maximum send their deposits to those places, but the Flood plain contributes to a FURTHER EFFECT.

The basin is the farthest extent that directly contributes to Shabelle water cycle. I would imagine the basin at the FARTHEST gets to Shiilaabo maybe to Ceelgaab.

BUT MY FRIEND, THE WATERSHED HAS CUMULATIVE EFFECT...AND THE SHABELLE BASIN RESULTS IN PROVIDING FURTHER MOISTURE WHICH INCREASES PRECIPITATION PICKED UP BY THE CLOSED BASINS.

The closed basins are places like the Bur Region of Burgeesoole/Raqo/Golweyn/Gumburu directly across from Caabudwaaq in Ethiopia.

People don't even know the reason the Hawd was the "Marehan Desert" or "Waterloss Desert" is because of this reason
---When Jilaal, everyone has to leave the Hawd and go back to their permenant wells. Only Marehan is really left and Harti at Galaadi because those are the two most important closed basins who even jn Jilaal can feed although under stress
----When Gu comes, the Shabelle Basin stretches as far as can and FEEDS THE CLOSED BASIN ESPECIALLY AT BUR REGION
---Precipitation swells in the high altitude at Burgeesoole and FEEDS THE DESPERATE DRY AIR OVER Wardheer, Caabudwaaq, Dhuusamareeb to Gaalkacyo
----Then the further feeds the other big closed basin at Galaadi to keep the relay going North.

It is a relay friend, the entire system is interdependent beginning with the routine high floow OF THR SHABELLE.

THE SHABELLE IS THE ENGINE THAT POWERS THE FACTOR.

You turn on one machine, that powers another.

Shabelle's actua flood zone created basin long stops, but what it impacted are the closed basins at Bur Region that further feed moisture to the closed basin at Galaadi and upwards.

They are "closed basins" because they neither ever taste any direct run off from the Shabelle nor feed it.

With MOISTURE -> CONDENSATION > PRECIPATION "Rain" ---> They power the livelohood zones you talked about (Dheez, Addun, Hawd, rtc).

There are distinctions with the livelihoods as well which shows why Shabelle is so important vis-a-vis ocean water.

Have you ever noticed from MOGADISHU to Berbera, Somalis had no historic settlement.

I mean countries with our coastlines all live on the coast, like New Zealand, Australia, US, Middle Eaat, etc. They all live on the coast, but not us.

Do you also notice why Somali nomads are always looking West to the interior and not East to the coast?

SALINITY my friend, salinatity.

Shabelle is important for the FRESHWATER WATERSHED whereas the flatness of our coastal plans quietly literally destroys whatever great life the soil can produce.

If we had a more varying coast and not a flat plain, then geographical features like escarpments or altitude would take the first brunt of the Salinity of the coastal watershed, to upcyle less saline precipitation and so forth

But it doesn't.

That's why Aduun and Dheex can feed small short grazing like sheepb, bu not long grazing and certainly nothing that can evironmentally support the extent and needs of Somali camels.

Even the wells Sahal, the CEELAL AND WATER, the closer it is to the coast the more the underground acquifers have mixed with oceanic mineral and salinity pollutants. Camels hate it and people would prefer not to drink it if they can access the interior.

(This is an entirely different conversation for another time which quit literally explains everything about Mudug and which has changed my perspect as I oncr said (for example I do not believe in towns named to clans anymore in Galmudug, I support integration. There is historical inequity.)

BUT ALL OF THIS MY FRIEND IS THE ENVIRONMENTAL SCHEMATICS

SHABELLE RIVER. ---> FLOOD PLAINS ----> SHABELLE BASIN -----> CLOSED BASINS ------> Sub-regions ----> REGION === WATER CYCLE

WATER CYCLE ----> LIVELIHOODS ----> SURVIVAL/CULTURE

[sahal80]

Mashallah

[sahal80]

[sahal80]

This is helikilyo 6km North of Baladweyne.

[barbarossa]

Ustaad Sahal, Anaga reer Mudug hadaa nahey waxaan another level u qaadney the ancient Maryooley axiom of 'ku qabso maku qadeyside'; xitaa quruxda dabiiciga oo Hiiraan, is not entirely safe from our insatiable hunguri/damac.

[sahal80]

Ustaad Sahal, Anaga reer Mudug hadaa nahey waxaan another level u qaadney the ancient Maryooley axiom of 'ku qabso maku qadeyside'; xitaa quruxda dabiiciga oo Hiiraan, is not entirely safe from our insatiable hunguri/damac.

reer mudug macalaa galgaduud 50skii iyo 60skii baladweyne waxay u yaqaaneen jeddah(Saudi arabia) nimco iyo shaqo iyo service lacag ay ka samayn jireen misawiray ka gali jireen iyo first cinema in gobolada dhexe. look this 50s hospital looks the same.