Round 01 · Open until 30 November
Every rainy season, water released from dams at home and across the border floods towns and farms along the Niger and the Benue. The people downstream rarely get a say. This round, they do.
Read the ideas below. We put the first six on the table.
Second the ones you back. One tap on Second this. No sign-up.
Add your own. We read every idea before it goes up.
When the round closes, we take the most-seconded ideas into our next One Page and put them in front of the people who can act on them.
BackgroundNew research paper: Dams and Downstream Flooding in Nigeria. Why dam releases flood communities downstream, and seven ways to make it safer.
Ideas on the table
Most seconded first. One tap to back an idea, no sign-up. Every idea is checked by our team before it appears.
What we’re hearing · updated 2 November
- Dam safety and building 2
- Warnings before releases 1
- Paying people who lose out 1
- Where people build and live 1
- Clearing rivers and drains 1
We read every idea, merge repeats, and group them by theme. Numbers show ideas per theme.