Word: jonglei
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This curious spectacle has occurred almost daily since July 1980, when digging began on black Africa's biggest current engineering project: the excavation of the Jonglei Canal in southern Sudan. Scheduled for completion in 1985, the canal will be one of the world's longest artificial waterways, stretching an imposing 220 miles...
...Jonglei project, named after the nearly inaccessible province it crosses, is being built to carry needed water to Sudan's arid north and to Egypt. The channel could irrigate some 600,000 acres of land by diverting 30% of the flow of the White Nile River, as much as 5.2 billion gal. of water a day, around the Sudd, a vast swampland in southern Sudan...