Month: July 2020

The Challawa Karaye Irrigation Scheme (CKIS) is located at Turawa Village in Karaye Local Government Area of Kano State. The Scheme is planned to cover about 200 hectares of irrigable land to provide the community access to irrigated land. The Karaye community is host to the famous Challawa Gorge Dam but did not have the […]

Katagum Irrigation Project is part of the 125,000 hectares identified as Jama’are Valley Project area in early 1970’s by Messrs. SCHULTZ International Consultants. The project has an estimated gross potential area of 8,700 hectares, which is presently under construction as a Pilot Project located near Katagum town on the Northwestern bank of the River Katagum.  […]

The Galala Dam is a medium size earth fill dam located on the boundary between Jigawa and Bauchi States.  It is constructed across the Galala River, a tributary of Jama’are/Bunga River.  The site is accessible through two seasonal roads of 18km from Kila Town along Kano – Maiduguri Road and 25km from Nasaru on Bauchi […]

The Hadejia Valley Project, Phase I is located within Auyo, Kaugama, Miga, Kafin Hausa and Hadejia Local Government Areas of Jigawa State between the Hadejia and Kafin Hausa rivers. The project is designed in such a way that water released from the upstream Challawa and Tiga dams into the river system could be used for […]

Kano River Irrigation Project, Phase I (KRIP I), is one of the largest and successful irrigation projects in Nigeria. The Project is located in Bunkure, Kura and Garun Malam Local Government Area of Kano State with Project Headquarters at Kura. It lies about 35km south-west of Kano city, on both sides of Kano – Zaria […]

The Challawa Gorge Dam is a large earth fill dam constructed on Challawa River at Karaye, some 90 km South-west of Kano City. The dam is designed to create a multipurpose reservoir to in conjunction with the Tiga dam serve the water needs of downstream areas in Kano, Jigawa, Yobe and Borno States. Principal uses […]

The Ruwan Kanya Reservoir is a 3.66 km long earth filled dam with storage capacity of 58 million cubic meters of water annexed to the Tiga Dam to serve as a balancing reservoir located at about 5.1km downstream of the Tiga Dam. The main features of the structure are: a. Embankment length – 3,600m b. […]

The Tiga Dam is a zoned filled earth dam located on River Kano, 70 km south of Kano City.  It is one of the largest dams in the country and was designed and built between 1970 and 1974.  This Dam is the cornerstone of water resources development in the Kano River Valley in Kano State […]

DAGWALO  SMALL EARTH DAM PROJECT IN BIRNIN KUDU  LGA OF JIGAWA STATE The Hadejia  Jama’are River Basin Development Authority, in Kano State, under the supervision of the Federal Ministry of Water Resources, in its effort to execute its statutory functions of undertaking comprehensive development of both the surface and underground water resources in its area […]