Water Management💦

• Bottom-up rain water Havesting in Chad 

  Facts:

  • • collects water that falls onto houses 
  • • Built by locals 
  • • Tools and training are provided by NGOs 
• Top-Down Transaqua water transfer scheme 

  Facts:

  • • plan is to build a 2400km canal that transfers 100 billion m3 if water from the Congo River to Lake Chad each year 
  • • Canal will make it easier to transport goods by boat between Congo, Chad and Nigeria 
• Bottom up schemes 

  • ✅does not need special training to install or maintain 
  • ✅Uses cheap materials so can be uses in LICs 
  • ✅Provides water for growing vegetables in a small garden  ✅Very easy to fix if it goes wrong 
  • ❌Difficult to store enough water to survive a long drought 
• Top down schemes 

  • ✅provided water for irrigating large commercial farms 
  • ✅May also be used to generate cheap hydro-electric power (HEP) to use in industry 
  • ✅Provides large quantities of clean water for homes 
  • ❌Needs complex agreement if river crosses national boarders 
  • ❌May flood variable farmland and displace people
  • ❌Expensive so the government may need to borrow money to pay for its construction 
  • ❌Can take many years to construct