Talk:Great Manmade River

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[edit] too many acronyms

WTF is NEJH and EJH? Is the thing called GMR, GMRP or GMMR? Guinness man 00:04, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

You're right, too many acronyms, or at least ones that aren't explained. The project is known as the Great Manmade River Project, hence the project name is usually shortened to GMRP, with a number added to denote the phase of construction. For example GMRP-2 was the construction of three wellfields near the Jabal Hasuna mountain range and a transfer pipeline north to Tripoli.

The three wellfields in the GMRP-2 project were located to the East and Northeast of the Jabal Hasuna mountains about 650km south of Tripoli. The two wellfields to the east of Jabal Hasuna are called East Jabal Hasuna (West) and East Jabal Hasuna (East), also known as EJHW and EJHE, with the third, Northeast Jabal Hasuna wellfield also known as NEJH.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rjboese (talk • contribs) 02:00, 8 August 2006.

Was the East Jabal Hasouna field ever devided (in west and east)? Not as far as I know.

The acronyme galore is not only the problem of the article, it comes from the project itself. I don't know weather it's the love of libyan authorities for acronyms, or the difficulty of translating from arabic (is it Hasuna? Hasouna? Hassawnah?). --Qyd 10:50, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Marked for Cleanup

I marked this for cleanup as the word "extraordinary" was used to describe the session of congress that started this. Such a word is subjective and not meant for a Wiki, and I think this whole article could use a bit of tiding.

Signed by Scryer_360, the man to lazy to sign in