Flooding and drought are two periodic problems in Somalia, and Somalia has a shortage of reliable electricity, but all three of these problems can be alleviated with hydroelectric dams.
Egypt had the same problems until the construction of the Aswan dam and the Lake Nasser water reservoir provided hydroelectricity to millions of Egyptians, a vast water reservoir for agriculture, and regulated the flow of the Nile, making the deadly Nile floods a thing of the past.
The deadly flooding of 2006 and in recent years has shown that Somalia is the victim of deadly floods and the disease outbreaks that happen after floods, but the Jubba Valley in particular has many rivers that are tributaries of the mighty Jubba river. A large hydroelectric dam north of Luuq and smaller ones in the huge number of small tributaries throughout Gedo, with another larger dam north of Bardheere would provide enormous amounts of electricity and water for agriculture, and would allow more development in the far south as flooding would no longer be an issue.
A large Aswan-type dam should also be built north of Beledweyne to create a lake-Nasser type water reservoir, again creating hydroelectricity, preventing flooding downriver, and creating another vast water reservoir for agriculture.
