Water transfer scheme
Great Man-Made River
Libya’s network of large-diameter pipelines conveying fossil groundwater from the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer beneath the Sahara to the coastal cities.
Key facts
- Pipeline length
- approximately 2,800 km
- Source
- Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System — fossil water
- Design delivery
- on the order of 6.5 million m³/day
- Sustainability
- Finite: the aquifer receives effectively no modern recharge
Relationships
- Located in: Libya
Related intelligence
Sources
- Global Water System Project — Global Reservoir and Dam Database. Open — attribution required · CC BY 4.0
- Peer-reviewed scientific literature — Open-access hydrology, water chemistry and water use research. Public but restricted · Publisher terms — public access, reuse not clearly granted
- OpenStreetMap Foundation — OpenStreetMap. Open — attribution required · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0