October 2022. Z&A as a member of a consortium signed a new contract in Nigeria.The main objective of this Consultancy services is to carry out detailed land and water resources study, on the basis of which to formulate an appropriate water resources development and investment project for the Benue River Basin lying in the North Eastern and North Central corridors
The Scope of the Consultancy services are:
I. Update the essential parts of the water resources management data by evaluating available resources spatially and temporally for the Benue River Basin “Hydrological Area (HA) 3 and 4” considering the available Water in the Water Resources Master Plans of 1995 and 2013 and their related studies in the past.
II. Draw out the Benue Basin Water Management Plan using most up-to-date state of the art tools, through forecast demand projection of various sub-sectors of water uses, evaluate demand projection for the Benue Basin sub-sectors according to their order of priority: as Municipal and Rural domestic water supply, Irrigation, Hydropower generation schemes, environmental flows, Flood and Drought Control, Inland Navigation and River training, Aquaculture and Livestock schemes taking into consideration the socio-environmental risks and needs for downstream.
III. Prepare a Development Plan including a set of possible irrigation and water resources development schemes, including some of which may already be in various stages of implementation.
IV. Project Prioritization and Detailed Designs.