WATER RESOURCES IN LIBYA Only 5% of the entire area of Libya exceeds 100 mm GROUND WATER 95.6% (4 in) annually. Evaporation rates are also high ranging SURFACE from WATER 700 mm (28 in) 2.3% in the north to 6000 mm DESALINATION 1.4% (236 in) in the south WATER TREATMENT 0.7%
Jefara Mediterranean Sea Tripoli Benghazi Sirt Ajdabiya Green Mountains Hamada In a recent study conducted under the supervision of the UN Over Centre extraction for Environment in These these & Development basins contain has in resulted the Arab in Region seawater & intrusion Europe CEDARE, in the 10,000 coastal the Nubian aquifers 12,000 Basin cubic with (of Km. TDS which levels Kufra is reaching part) 7000ppm was in estimated the of Tripoli economically at region containing extractable 373.3 water x 10^12 m 3. If the neighboring countries extract water at a rate of 1380 MCMY it is calculated that the reserve would last 4860 years. Murzug Sirt Kufra
Cost Comparison Between Different Water Supply Alternatives 0.79 m 3 Desalination 1.05 m 3 Transportation by ships 9.00 m 3 0.74 m 3 Quantity of water per One Libyan Dinar Great Man-Made River Project Pipeline from South Europe to Tripoli
03 October 1983 The General People's Congress held an extraordinary session to draft the resolutions of the basic people's Congresses, which decided to fund and execute the Great Man-Made River Project. 28 August 1984 The leader of the Revolution lays the foundation stone in Sarir area for the commencement of the construction of the Great Man-Made River Project.
Gedammes Conveyance - Length No. of Wells 190 144 Km (119 Miles). - Diameter Total Production 4.0 90 MCMY m (13 ft.). Mediterranean Sea Tripoli Benghazi Sirt Ajdabiya Jaghboub No. of Wells 40 Total Production 50 MCMY Tobruk Ghadames Jaghboub NE Jebel Hasouna Sarir & Tazerbo Well Fields E Jebel Hasouna Kufra - Total Production 2.0 MCMD - No. of Wells No. of 234 Wells 285 - Length Total 1926 Production Km (1204 1.68 Miles MCMD ). of mainly 4.0 m (13 ft.) diameter pipes Sarir East & NEJebel Hasouna s - No. of Wells 586 - Total Production 2.5 MCMD - Length of 1.732 Km (1,083 Miles) of mainly 4.0 m (13 ft.) diameter pipes Tazerbo Tazerbo Kufra
Ghadames / Al Zawia System Break Pressure Tank Ghadames Abu Kammash Break Pressure Tank Pump Station 3 Nalut Pump Station 1 Pump Station 2 Sinawn Zwara Flow Control Station Al Zawia Tripoli * 144 wells - 209 Km (130 miles) wellfield collector pipe line. * 626 Km (389 miles) main conveyance and distribution line - 4 no s pump stations - 4 no s storage tanks - 3 no s pressure breaking tanks. - 1 no elevated tanks. - 25 no s turnouts. * Communication and control system. * 3 operation and maintenance centres. * Electrical distribution system for the wellfield.
Tripoli Mediterranean Sea Benghazi Sirt Ajdabiya 3 Pump Station 1 Pump Station Tobruk Ghadames - Add 1.68 MCMD to existing phase I conveyance. NE Jebel Hasouna - 300 wells in Kufra well field. - 383 Km (238 miles) conveyance. - Mainly 4.0 m (13 ft.) diameter pipes. - 7 no. inline booster pumping station. E Jebel Hasouna - 402 Km (250 miles) hall road. - Permanent communication & control system. - Cathodic protection system. - Operation, support and maintenance facilities. 2 Pump Station Sarir Tazerbo Tazerbo Jaghboub Pump Station Kufra
Mediterranean Sea Tripoli Tobruk Benghazi Sirt Ajdabiya Ghadames Jaghboub NE Jebel Hasouna Sarir Tazerbo E Jebel Hasouna Tazerbo Kufra
Reservoirs Ajdabiya Holding Reservoir - Capacity 4.0 mcm Al Gardabiya Reservoir - Capacity 6.8 mcm Omar Mukhtar Reservoir - Capacity 4.7 mcm The Grand Al Gardabiya Reservoir - Capacity 15.4 mcm The Grand Omar Mukhtar Reservoir - Capacity 24.0 mcm Total Storage Capacity = 54.9 mcm
Two Pipe Manufacturing Plants Sarir Plant Three lines producing 120 pipes daily Brega Plant Two lines producing 80 pipes daily
Cut-away Section of a Pre-stressed Concrete Cylinder Pipe (PCCP) PIPE MAKE-UP MORTAR COATING STEEL PRE-STRESSING WIRE OUTER CONCRETE CORE STEEL LINER INNER CONCRETE CORE Length of Pipe = 7.52 meters Pipe Diameters 1.6-4.0 meters Weight of Pipe = 75-83 tonnes Pressure Rates 6-26 bar 17-18 km of prestressed Wire 12-16 tonnes of Cement
Pipe Transportation
Haul Roads Phase I Total Length 1,600 Km (1,000 Miles). Phase II Total Length 2,155 km (1,340 Miles).
Pipe Laying Depth of Trench 7.0 m (23 ft.). Capacity of Cranes Used up to 450 tons
Water Allocation in M 3 /Day 6.57 Million Cubic Metres Water per Day Transfer 2,398 Million Cubic Metres per Year All Phases in M 3 /Day 1,838,480 M 3 Municipal --> (28 %) 4,596,200 M 3 Agricultural --> (70 %) 131,320 M 3 Industrial --> (2 %)
Tunisia Tripoli Mediterranean Sea Benghazi Sirt Ajdabiya Tobruk Ghadames PCCP Plant Jaghboub Algeria Algeria NE Jebel Hasouna Sarir PCCP Plant Agricultural Land Developed 130,000 hectares Egypt Egypt E Jebel Hasouna The agricultural development projects are being carried out The in three agricultural regions development in Libya: plan aims to: Realize American Investors Benghazi the Plains with Companies highest experience Region possible have net rate in irrigated of already the self-sufficiency field area invested are 30,000 in invited grain hectares and the to fodder development participate 14,000 crops. hectares in: of to Large be developed Farm Projects: as large farm projects. Increase Jefara - 1300 Plains Implementation the Hectares Region capital (Tripoli) Benghazi investment - net Plains and irrigated Region job area opportunities 80,000 hectares in the agricultural 1,500 (this hectares Operation will sector. be increased be developed to 14,000 as large Hectares farm projects. in the future) - 800 Maintenance Hectares Tarhouna 0 150 300 450 600 Produce Al-Ghardabiya - Valmont Management raw materials Valley Plains supplying and Region for Kmthe product food Irrigation (Sirt) marketing processing - net equipment irrigated industry. area 20,000 hectares 5,400 hectares to be developed as large farm projects. Encourage Of the - Case large supplying and farm support projects agricultural agricultural equipment settlement. Tazerbo Tazerbo Kufra Sudan Sudan
19.58 Billion Dollars Project Cost Capital Phase Cost I - $5.53 $19.58 Billion Tunisia Operation Billion & Maintenance Cost $14.11 Billion Tripoli Mediterranean Sea Benghazi Total Phase Investment II - $8.05 Cost (50 Years) $33.69 Billion NE Jebel Hasouna Billion Expected Production Quantity E Jebel Hasouna 120 Billion m 3 Algeria Algeria Ghadames Unit Future rate/ Phase m 3 water - $6.0 to recover investment cost Billion over 50 years Sirt Ajdabiya Sarir Tazerbo Tazerbo Jaghboub Tobruk Egypt Egypt Kufra 0 150 300 $0.28/m 3 450 600 Km Sudan Sudan
PROJECT STATISTICS Volume Total of No. Trench of Pipes Excavation Total 240 Weight Million of MCement 3 585,296 6.9 Million Tonnes The length of pre-stressing wire used The The amount in total the number project of aggregate of is wells equivalent used is 1,350 in to the 220 project The times cement is the sufficient circumference used in to the build project of the 16is earth pyramids sufficient. the to construct size of the a concrete Great Pyramid road from. Tripoli to Bombay
Mediterranean Sea Tripoli Benghazi Tobruk Sirt Ajadibya England Germany Tazirbu France Al Kufrah Project Scale Project Scale 0 150 300 450 600 Km
KANSAS Sirt Benghazi Ajadibya Tobruk OKLAHOMA LOUISIANA ARKANSAS MISSOURI Tazirbu TEXAS Al Kufrah Tripoli COLORADO Ghadames NEW MEXICO Project Scale Project Scale 0 150 300 450 600 Km