Ethiopian Construction Works Corporation (ECWC) has completed the Gidabo dam in central Ethiopia. The dam has the capacity to reserve 62.5 million cubic meter and is expected to develop 13,425 hectares of land cultivated by some 10,000 farmers. He assured that the Gidabo irrigation dam will now facilitate the exploitation of the region’s full agricultural potential. The Ethiopian government has put a lot of money into the Gidabo irrigation dam, for which it has invested one billion birr, or more than $35 million. Since 1960, Ethiopia has constructed more than 35 dams for hydropower, irrigation, drinking water, fishing and flood control.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 28, 2019 15:22 UTC