The people of South Sudan are debating whether to restart a project first considered over 100 years ago to change the way water moves through the country.
The Jonglei Canal project was first studied in 1904. It would move water from the Sudd wetlands in South Sudan and send it down the Nile River to Sudan and Egypt. The project started in the 1950s. Work went on for 30 years, but it was never finished. By then about 270 of a total 340…
