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Show to the use of all the waxer may, under contract, give a share of the power to the other Government -" The maintenance of the dam was to be unilateral, if so constructed; joint maintenance, if jointly constructed. But if unilaterally constructed and later shared by the other Government, maintenance would then become joint (Art. III). Treaty Series No. 30 (1926) 3« The River Gash - United Kingdom and Italy June 12/15, 1925. The River Gash flows westward and northward from Italian Eretria into the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan where its unused waters become lost in the sands of the desert. It is a successive river. There are regions along the banks of the Gash in both Eretria and the Sudan of great fertility, but entirely dependent on the river for any productive agricultural development. Very little develop- ment had taken place in Eretria prior to this agreement. In the Sudan about 15j000 acres were under irrigation with waters from the Gash and in addition, . the flood waters of the river served for flooding the areas used for wells, for grazing, and also for the cultivation of food crops by the natives. In Eretria the plain of Tessenei would require 65,000,000 cubic meters of water for the full development of its irrigable area of 20,000 hectares. The agreement provides for the equal division of the waters of the Gash up to 130,000,000 cubic meters. The Sudan Government will pay for all waters used in excess of 65,000,000 cubic meters 20 percent of the sum received by it in respect of cultivation by irrigation of land in the Gash Delta in excess of a fixed sum of h 50,000 annually. The Eretrian Government is to let pass all waters in ezxcess of 65,000,000 cubic meters annually. This agreement results in the perpetuation of existing uses in both countries as well as making pro- vision for their future extension. The Experts1 report attached to the agree- ments provides in part as follows: "Since it would not be for the practical advantage of either territory to divide the very small supplies, we would leave the first five cubic metres per second at the complete disposal of Tessenei. The division of the supply from five up to 20 cubic metres per second should be made in such proportionately progressive manner that when twenty cubic metres per second is reached, the partition will be ten cubic metres per second to each* "The discharge above twenty cubic metres per second should be divided in equal parts until the discharge required for the irrigation of the plain of Tessenei is reached. Above that, the water will be passed freely below the barrage•" -16- |
