Bani Walki Dam

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Bani Walki Dam
Location: Tanout , Niger
Tributaries: Kokoram
Drain: Kokoram
Bani Walki Dam (Niger)
Bani Walki Dam
Coordinates 14 ° 44 '47 "  N , 9 ° 3' 16"  E Coordinates: 14 ° 44 '47 "  N , 9 ° 3' 16"  E
Data on the structure
Construction time: 2008
Data on the reservoir
Storage space 380,000 m³

The Bani-Walki Dam is a dam in the region of Zinder in Niger .

Building description

Her name in the official French language is barrage de Bani Walki . Alternative spellings to Bani Walki are Baniwalki and Banou Oualki .

The Bani Walki Dam is located about three kilometers south of the village of Bani Walki in the area of ​​the municipality of Tanout , which belongs to the Tanout department of the same name in the Zinder region. It dams the dry valley Kokoram . The reservoir has a volume of 380,000 million m³.

The dam is used for agricultural purposes.

history

The Bani Walki Dam was built in 2008. For the geotechnical supervision and oversight, the company was LEGENI SA from Niamey responsible. It was built as part of an aid project financed by the African Development Bank for agricultural development in the Zinder region. The aid project lasted from January 2003 to June 2009 and cost a total of 6.4 billion CFA francs . In the course of the project, other dams were realized: the Bakatsiraba dam , the Bargouma dam , the Goumda Tambari dam , the Kassama dam and the Toumbala dam .

See also

literature

  • Mamane Bachir Djibo Moussa: Effet des seuils d'épandage réalisés par le PADAZ sur la sécurité alimentaire des ménages. Cas de Bakatchiraba et Bani Walki (Tanout) . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2010.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Répertoire National des localites (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 694 , accessed on 7 August 2015 (French).
  2. ↑ a b Dams of Africa. (xlsx) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), accessed on September 23, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Dossier PADAZ: redonner confiance aux producteurs ruraux. In: Niger Diaspora. July 12, 2009, accessed September 23, 2018 (French).
  4. ↑ References. LEGENI SA, 2011, accessed on February 14, 2019 (French).