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Post-Jonglei planning in southern Sudan: combining environment with development [1]

In 2008, the Sudanese and Egyptian governments decided to resume work on the Jonglei Canal project, which had been abandoned for 24 years. This project in southern Sudan plans to by-pass, and thus drain, part of the wetlands of the Bahr al-Jabal and Bahr az-Zaraf rivers into the White Nile.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2008
Adil Mustafa Ahmad [2]
Environment & Urbanisation [3]
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Tags:
Ecosystems [4], Wetlands [5], Water Resources [6], Nile [7], Water Distribution [8], Climate Change [9], Sea Level Rise [10], Conflicts [11], Hydrology [12], Egypt [13], Sudan [14], Statistics [15]
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