The Tiga Reservoir ( Tiga Reservoir ) is a reservoir in Nigeria and the third largest in Africa . It is located in northern Nigeria and was built in the 1970s. The reservoir is part of the Kano River Project I , which irrigates an area of 20,300 hectares and supplies the city of Kano .
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The dam, completed in 1974, dams the Kano River , is six kilometers long and up to 48 meters high. The reservoir was completely filled for the first time in 1978. Originally the lake had a capacity of 1970 million m³, by lowering the basin overflow its maximum capacity decreased to 1350 million m³. The annual average amount of water available is 750 million m³.
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Ehud Simon: Environmental impact assessment, Kano River irrigation project (Phase I) extension, Nigeria . In: Dan Rosbjerg (Ed.): Sustainability of Water Resources under Increasing Uncertainty . International Association of Hydrological Science, 1997, ISBN 978-1-901502-05-3 , pp.185-192 .
The British Dam Society (Ed.): Water Resources & Reservoir Engineering . Thomas Telford, 1992, ISBN 978-0-7277-1692-7 , pp.321 .
