The Lake Chad basin has many flood-prone areas that are affected year after year. These areas are concentrated along the Chari and its tributaries, near Guelendeng, Bousso and the Am Timan area, east of Sarh. The loss of water in these sections promotes the drying up of Lake Chad. The Lake Chad basin hasmany areas prone to floods that are affected year after year. These areas are concentrated along the Chari and its tributaries, near Guelendeng, Bousso and the Am Timan region, east of Sarh. The loss of water in these sections promote drying of Lake Chad.A preliminary analysis showed that if part of the water of the plains flood was diverted towards the Lake Chad, this could improve drying up of the lake and allowing average increase in levels between 0.4 and 1 m. In addition, the river Chari is facing a serious problem of silting throughout its length and contributes to transport sediments and silting of the Lake Chad. A study of feasibility of water transfer interbasins of the Oubangui River in Lake Chad has been identified as a priority project of the Scheme Director of the LCBC developed in 1994. This was completed in 2011 and was approved by the 14th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Lake Chad Basin Commission held in N'Djamena in April 2012. She demonstrated the technical feasibility of a transfer of water by gravity from the Bria / Kotto dam through of transport infrastructure of water to Lake Chad via the river Chari.The 14th Summit Heads of State and Government of the LCBC, which was held N'Djamena in April 2012, approved the following measures as a means improve water availability in the Chari river and the lake Chad.

i. Improve the hydraulicity of the Chari in order to reduce losses in the plains floodable;

ii. Arrange the Lake Chad and its main tributaries by dredging and sand removal in order to to obtain a better distribution water in the different basins of Lake Chad; Furthermore, in the same document, it was demonstrated that the inter-basin transfer of the Kotto requires an increase in water levels in the Boungou and the Kotto at the confluence of the two courses of water. This increase must be done by setting up a dam capable of producing hydroelectric power for region. The proposed dam and the water transfer corridor through the Boungou river (reservoir of the dam), the Ipendo river, the Ouaka river, two trenches for cross the interbasin ridge and a canal along the Koukourou rivers and Bamingui before continuing towards Chari will develop a region of approximately 100,000 km² which is today devoid of any type of road and electricity connections. Other benefits demonstrated in this study shows the possibility intensive integrated development areas with high agricultural potential and breeding and the creation of a important industrial area specialized.Thus, the proposed water transfer corridor starts at the Boungou river (dam reservoir), to the river Ipendo, at the Ouaka river, for two trenches to cross the ridge between the basins and to a canal the along the Koukourou andBamingui before continuing towards the Chari. At this point he is important to identify the possible solutions to improve the hydraulic capacity of Chari and carry out in-depth studies on their impacts and to proceed also to the realization of several infrastructures.

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