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Chari and Logone rivers and their tributaries
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- The semicircle is completed to the southwest by the mountains of Adamawa and Mandara, which lie mostly beyond the frontier in Cameroon and Nigeria. Chad’s river network is virtually limited to the Chari and Logone rivers and their tributaries, which flow from the southeast to feed Lake Chad.
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This is a list of rivers in Chad. This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.
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Dr Kirsty Upton and Brighid Ó Dochartaigh, British Geological Survey, UK Dr Imogen Bellwood-Howard, Institute of Development Studies, UK Please cite this page as: Upton, Ó Dochartaigh & Bellwood-Howard, 2018. Bibliographic reference: Upton, K., Ó Dochartaigh, B.É & Bellwood-Howard, I. 2018. Africa Groundwater Atlas: Hydrogeology of Chad. British Ge...
The Africa Groundwater Atlas is hosted by the British Geological Survey (BGS) and includes information from third party sources. Your use of information provided by this website is at your own risk. If reproducing diagrams that include third party information, please cite both the Africa Groundwater Atlas and the third party sources. Please see the...
The low lying Lake Chad Basin covers much of Chad, with an elevation of about 250 m. There is also low lying land in the dry north of the country. To the north, east and south of the Lake Chad Basin, the land rises gradually to plateaus and mountains. The highest elevations are in the Tibesti massif in the north, at over 3000 m. In the east are pla...
This section provides a summary of the geology of Chad. More information is available in the report ‘Groundwater in North and West Africa: Chad’(1988) (see References section, below). The geology map shows a simplified version of the geology at a national scale (see the Geology resources pagefor more details). Download a GIS shapefile of the Chad g...
This section provides a summary of the hydrogeology of the main aquifers in Chad. More information at a country-scale is available in the report ‘Groundwater in North and West Africa: Chad’(1988) (see References section, below). For areas where the ResEauprogram has produced hydrogeological maps and descriptions, these provide the most detailed ava...
The Lake Chad Basin aquifer has been widely studied and it is clear that it is highly sensitive to climatic changes (GWP 2013). Recharge to the aquifer has decreased in recent years, mainly due to drought, but also related to management decisions in upstream regions. Because recharge is derived from surface water (river and lake) infiltration as we...
Groundwater use
Recent information states that nearly 80% of groundwater abstracted in Chad is used for agriculture, and around 20% for domestic use (Global Water Partnership, 2013). Many rural areas, particularly in the drier north, depend on groundwater from shallow hand dug wells and boreholes for domestic use, and in some cases also for livestock use in dry seasons. Groundwater is also used for small scale irrigation in the north. Groundwater also provides a large proportion of water supply in many urban...
The Lake Chad Basin aquiferis shared between eight countries, including Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Cameroon. The Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC), based on the “Convention Relating to the Development of the Chad Basin” signed in 1964, was created in order to regulate the management of transboundary natural resources. Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria, Chad a...
Information on major groundwater projects in Chad, including links to project results and outputs, can be found on the Chad Groundwater Projectspage.
The following references provide more information on the geology and hydrogeology of Chad. Many of these, and others, can be accessed through the Africa Groundwater Literature Archive Key online resource with many downloadable hydrogeological maps and publications: ResEau Alker M. 2008. The Lake Chad Basin Aquifer System: a case study for the resea...
Oct 9, 2024 · Chad’s river network is virtually limited to the Chari and Logone rivers and their tributaries, which flow from the southeast to feed Lake Chad. The remaining Chad waterways are either seasonal or are of insignificant size.
The seasonal Korama River in the south of Niger does not reach Lake Chad. Nigeria includes two sub-basins that drain into Lake Chad.
Lake Chad in the Sahel straddles Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon and is home to 17.4 million people. For years, the lake has been supporting drinking water, irrigation, fishing, livestock and economic activity for over 30 million people in the region.
The average flow of water entering the country by the Chari is currently estimated at 28km3, giving a total of 43km3 of renewable resources. The wetlands are located in the extreme south and on the plains of the two main rivers. The area of Lake Chad, with its water variations, can also be considered wetland.
