Les enjeux économiques de l’aménagement du fleuve Sénégal

River Senegal (1 800 km) has a highly variable flow. Its basin covers an area of 300 000 km2 and is unequally shared between four riverine countries: Guinea (9 %), Mali (46 %), Mauritania (23 %) and Senegal (22%)Since the beginning of the 19th century successive schemes for the development of the Se...

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spelling cairn-PRESA_161_0170PRESAPrésence Africaine https://shs.cairn.info/revue-presence-africaine-1999-3-page-170?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/presa.161.0170 Les enjeux économiques de l’aménagement du fleuve Sénégal Kane, Ndiawar1999 fre Présence Africaine | 161-162 | 3 | 1999-09-01 | p. 170-184 | 0032-7638 PRESA_16198 River Senegal (1 800 km) has a highly variable flow. Its basin covers an area of 300 000 km2 and is unequally shared between four riverine countries: Guinea (9 %), Mali (46 %), Mauritania (23 %) and Senegal (22%)Since the beginning of the 19th century successive schemes for the development of the Senegal basin have been elaborated but it is only in the 1960s after the independence of the riverine countries that action really started.The OMVS (Organisation pour la mise en valeur du fleuve Sénégal) created in 1972 set up an ambitious programme for the development of the river basin and planned the construction of two dams (one to prevent the salt from infiltrating the river’s flow and the other one to produce hydro-electric energy) which were supposed to enhance navigation and irrigated cultivation as well as produce energy.Though the dams were built, the programme is still to be completed due to some disfunction in the OMVS scheme : in particular, it is noticeable that the water flow is not sufficient to implement the three aims : energy, irrigation and navigation and so contradictions need to be smoothed out before a rationalized development of the river basin can be properly put in place.Cairn restricted access
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description River Senegal (1 800 km) has a highly variable flow. Its basin covers an area of 300 000 km2 and is unequally shared between four riverine countries: Guinea (9 %), Mali (46 %), Mauritania (23 %) and Senegal (22%)Since the beginning of the 19th century successive schemes for the development of the Senegal basin have been elaborated but it is only in the 1960s after the independence of the riverine countries that action really started.The OMVS (Organisation pour la mise en valeur du fleuve Sénégal) created in 1972 set up an ambitious programme for the development of the river basin and planned the construction of two dams (one to prevent the salt from infiltrating the river’s flow and the other one to produce hydro-electric energy) which were supposed to enhance navigation and irrigated cultivation as well as produce energy.Though the dams were built, the programme is still to be completed due to some disfunction in the OMVS scheme : in particular, it is noticeable that the water flow is not sufficient to implement the three aims : energy, irrigation and navigation and so contradictions need to be smoothed out before a rationalized development of the river basin can be properly put in place.
author Kane, Ndiawar
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Les enjeux économiques de l’aménagement du fleuve Sénégal
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title Les enjeux économiques de l’aménagement du fleuve Sénégal
title_short Les enjeux économiques de l’aménagement du fleuve Sénégal
title_full Les enjeux économiques de l’aménagement du fleuve Sénégal
title_fullStr Les enjeux économiques de l’aménagement du fleuve Sénégal
title_full_unstemmed Les enjeux économiques de l’aménagement du fleuve Sénégal
title_sort les enjeux économiques de l’aménagement du fleuve sénégal
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