LAKE TSANA DAM

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 114, 11 February 1928, Page 10

LAKE TSANA DAM

THE AMERICAN PLAN BRITISH GOVERNMENT’S ATTITUDE Rugby, February 9. Replying to a question regarding the construction of a dam and reservoir at Lake Tsana, on the Blue Nile, by American capital, Mr. G. Locker-Lampson, Foreign Under-Secretary, recalled that the Foreign Secretary had stated last November that no issue had arisen between the British and United States Governments on this subject. Mr. Locker-Lampson added: “I do not conceive it possible that it should give rise to an occasion for any difference of opinion. There has, therefore, been no occasion for any exchange of views between the two Governments. . The object of the British Government is to get a barrage constructed and worked, on engineering lines and on conditions satisfactory alike to the Government of Abvssinia and the Governments of the Sudan and Egypt, our primary interest being to secure additional water for Sudan.—British Official Wireless.

(Lake Tsana is practically the headwaters of the Blue Nile in Abyssinia, and the American plan, invited by the Government of Abyssinia, is to dam the cutlet of the Blue’ Nile from the. lake and form thereby a reservoir suitable for irrigation or hydro-electric power generation. Britain is concerned mainly with the supplv of water to the Blue Nile, which is dammed above Khartum, where it joins the White Nile, to enable the irrigation of the fertile land between the two rivers.]