AJDABIYA HOLDING RESERVOIR (AJDABIYA HOLDING RESERVOIR)

This open-air reservoir, a genuine artificial lake, was inaugurated in August 1991 by Gaddafi in front of a areopagus of African and Arab heads of state. The impoundment of the reservoir marked the completion of Phase I of the giant hydraulic project of the Artificial Great River. The water of the then De and Sarir, in the south-east, discharges into this reservoir with a capacity of 4 million m 3 (900 m in diameter) after a long underground route in concrete pipes 4 m in diameter, before being distributed between the tanks in Sirte and Benghazi.