Great Manmade River
Sign in to saveAlso known as GMR, Great Man-made River, Great Manmade River Project, Great Man-made River Project, Mashrūʻ al-Nahr al-Ṣināʻī al-ʻAẓīm
underground network of pipes that supplies water to the Sahara Desert in Libya
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Within Vinony's link graph, Great Manmade River is referenced by 136 other articles, and connects out to Libyan Civil War, Libyan Civil War and history of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi.
The entry is geolocated on the map in landmark.
It sits within the topics Economy of Libya, Geography of Libya and Interbasin transfer.
Its subject is documented across 40 Wikipedia language editions.
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Schematic drawing of the project. Note that different routes have been proposed for the not-yet-implemented phases (dashed). Tobruk may for instance end up connected to Ajdabiya instead of to the Jaghboub well field. The Great Man-Made River Project (Arabic: النهر الصناعي العظيم, romanized: an-nahr aṣ-ṣināʿiyy al-ʿaẓīm, abbreviated GMRP) is a network of pipes that supplies fresh water obtained from the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System, a fossil aquifer, across Libya. It is the world's largest irrigation project.
The project utilizes a pipeline system that pumps water from the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System, in southern Libya, to cities along the populous northern Mediterranean coast of Libya, including Tripoli and Benghazi. The water covers a distance of up to 1,600 kilometers and provides 70% of all fresh water used in Libya.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Great Manmade River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.