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Ethiopia: Master plan for rivers Wabe Shebele and Genale in east under way
BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom; Nov 28, 2001
Text of report in English by pro-Ethiopian government Walta Information
Centre web site on 28 November
Addis Ababa, 27 November: The minister of water resources development has
disclosed that work on the master plan for the Wabe Shebele and Genale
rivers [southeastern Ethiopia] was well in progress through fund secured
from the African Development Bank (ADB) and the Federal government.
Ato Shiferaw Jarso, told today's issue of the EPRDF weekly "Abyotawi
Democracy" that the master plan study for the two rivers constituted one of
the priority tasks of the ministry this year, because of what he said, was
the urgency for the need to solve the serious water shortage, the
pastoralists living along the banks of the two rivers, were suffering from.
The minister is also quoted by the newspaper, as having said that a 15-
year water resource development plan has been formulated, whose execution,
he pointed out, is envisaged to be funded by the World Bank and other donor
and creditor organizations.
According to the minister, funding for the study of the development of some
200,000 ha. of land through irrigation has already been secured, while the
fund for undertaking a study into the launching of four dams along the Baro
River and one major dam along the Nile River [western and northern Ethiopia
respectively] for the generation of hydroelectric power has been released.
Ato Shiferaw also told the paper that the various irrigation projects under
execution in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture, will upon
completion, this year, help develop over 3,000 ha. of farm land.
Source: Walta Information Centre web site, Addis Ababa, in English 28 Nov 01
/BBC Monitoring/ ? BBC.
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Ryan Hoover
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