Jebel Aulia

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Jebel Aulia is a dam and reservoir on the White Nile in Sudan, historically significant for irrigation, hydroelectric power, and flood control.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf dam
reservoir
basinCountry Sudan NERFINISHED
builtBy United Kingdom NERFINISHED
builtFor Egypt NERFINISHED
category Dams in Sudan
Reservoirs in Sudan
constructionStartDate 1933
continent Africa
country Sudan
designedDuring Anglo-Egyptian Sudan period NERFINISHED
hasFunction flood mitigation
power generation
water level regulation
hasImpact creation of reservoir fisheries
modification of White Nile flow regime
hasStructureType gravity dam
height 20 m (approximate)
historicalSignificance important for downstream irrigation in Egypt
major early 20th-century Nile control project
isPartOfHistoryOf Egyptian irrigation policy
Nile River development
Sudanese water infrastructure
isUpstreamOf Khartoum on the White Nile NERFINISHED
length 5000 m (approximate)
locatedIn Jebel Aulia locality
locatedNear Khartoum NERFINISHED
locatedOnRiver White Nile NERFINISHED
locatedSouthOf Khartoum NERFINISHED
nearbySettlement Jebel Aulia town NERFINISHED
openingDate 1937
operator Sudan NERFINISHED
ownershipTransferredTo Sudan NERFINISHED
partOf Nile water management system
White Nile basin NERFINISHED
purpose flood control
hydroelectric power
irrigation
region Khartoum State NERFINISHED
reservoirCapacity about 3.5 cubic kilometres (approximate)
reservoirName Jebel Aulia Reservoir NERFINISHED
reservoirPurpose seasonal water storage
riverSystem Nile NERFINISHED
transferContext post-independence Nile water agreements
usedFor agricultural development in Sudan
navigation regulation on the White Nile
watercourse White Nile NERFINISHED

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Jabal Awliya locality namedAfter Jebel Aulia