The Global Initiative to Reoperate Dams is implementing a demonstration project in West Africa. This collaboration involves IUCN-World Conservation Union, the International Water Management Institute, as well as national water resource agencies, river basin officials, and local communities and NGOs in the affected watersheds. The project encompasses the Senegal River Basin (Manantali Dam), the Hadejia-Nguru wetlands complex in northern Nigeria (Tiga and Challawa Dams), and the lower Volta Basin in Ghana (Akosombo and Kpong Dams), and will expand to include other river basins. The reoperation techniques that will be explored include economic optimization modeling, conjunctive management of surface and groundwater, reducing physical losses of water in irrigation, and rescheduling (while increasing) total hydropower production and system reliability.
Contact: Gregory Thomas
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Komadugu-Yobe Basin Project
