Pdf identification and prioritization of subwatersheds. Ethiopias controversial dam project peter moszynski. Climate change impact on the hydrology of tekeze basin, ethiopia. Sorry for the hazy quality, thanks to the fuzzy plane window. So spoke sun yue, director of the international department of the stateowned china water resources and hydropower engineering corporation sinohydro. Projection of rainfallrunoff for future water resources planning. To achieve this objective, the study primarily used qualitative techniques of data collection. Pdf climate change impact on the hydrology of tekeze. This writer believes that, to address the present deadlock, nbi can emulate au and acknowledge the grd as nbi and pida. Overview of tekeze hydroelectric power plant general the ethiopian electric power corporation constructed the tekeze hydro electric power plant as part of the countrys general development plan with the aim of expanding the electric power generation capacity. Overview of tekeze hydroelectric power plant general. Methods this research was conducted in tekeze dam and lake.
By tapping into the significant energy generation potential of the countrys tekeze river, eepco had a solutiona way to increase power stability and provide access to light, heat, and water. The dam consists of four turbines, generating 300 mw of electricity together. Cooperation and practice in river basin management case. At the time of completion, the 188 metres 617 ft high dam is said to be africas largest arch dam. Here james r stevenson and mihret debebe provide further details of the staged construction and filling sequence for the dam, while summarizing and updating the status of the power projects currently underway in the federal democratic republic of ethiopia by.
Cooperation and practice in river basin management case study kees sloff. Pdf assessment of fish postharvest losses in tekeze dam. Northern ethiopia article pdf available in agriculture and food security 61 december 2017 with. Ethiopia completes construction of africas tallest dam. Tekeze dam is for ethiopia what three gorges is for china. Tekeze haydro power project, mekelle, tigray, ethiopia. Identification and prioritization of subwatersheds for land and water management in tekeze dam watershed, northern ethiopia. The study is to be conducted within one year to identify the type of dam to be constructed and estimate how much each dam will cost. The power plant was designed to accommodate four 75mw units, with three of these to be.
The cooperative in tekeze produce the fish using tekeze hydroelectric dam and suppliessale to the consumers located around the nearby we reda. Upon completion at the end of february 2009, the tekeze concrete arch dam in ethiopia became the highest dam on the african continent. Assessment of fish postharvest losses in tekeze dam and lake hashenge fishery associations. Vag valves, tekeze dam, dams, hydropower, vag kss hollow jet discharge valve created date. Peter bosshard, policy director for international rivers, one of the groups involved in the campaign against gibe iii pdf, says that international groups. Ethiopia, the landlocked nation in east africa from which key tributaries to the nile river originate, completed construction of the continents highest dam, the 188meter tekeze arch dam. Tekeze dam is a doublecurvature arch dam in the tigray region of northern ethiopia on the tekeze river, a nile tributary that flows through one of the deepest canyons in the world. This video clip of tekeze river and dam was shot by me from a bombardier q400 at 20,000 feet flying from gondar to aksum, ethiopia. The main objective of this study is to investigate the major social and economic consequences entailed by the tekeze dam on local populations inhabiting wag hemra zone.
Furthermore, they distributed to retailers and hotels at. Primary data collecting methods like participatory observation, unstructured, semistructured and indepth interviews, focus group. The tallest dam in africa creates clean, renewable power. And at 185 meters ten meters higher than the three gorges dam, the tekeze dam, built on a tributary of the nile, promises to bring the kinds of serious environmental and social. For part of its course it forms a section the westernmost border of ethiopia and eritrea. Hydro power in ethiopia the staged construction of. In case of human and natural associated impacts on water bodies.