The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Water Resources, Mohammed Ganidi, discussed with the Man-Made River Authority how to exploit the rainwater of the Nubian groundwater basin shared by Libya, Egypt, Sudan and Chad.
This came during a meeting held at the Ministry's headquarters following the heavy and continuous rain that fell for days on the deserts of Al-Oweinat and Al-Kufra.
Ganidi explained during the meeting that using the groundwater basin is done through establishing strategic agricultural projects and paying attention to the stalled ones, such as Al-Kufra settlement project.
He reported that the Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, stressed the need to activate agricultural projects in the region.
The Nubian Basin is the largest fossil groundwater basin in the world, shared by four African countries (Libya, Egypt, Sudan and Chad) and its area is estimated at about 2.2 million square kilometers, more than 760 thousand square kilometers in Libya, 828 thousand square kilometers in Egypt, 376 thousand square kilometers in Sudan, and 235 thousand square kilometers in Chad.