Gaddafi's grand water project

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Gaddafi's grand water project


The great man-made river — the most ambitious project of the Libyan Jamahiriya — is a network of water pipes supplying waterless regions and the northern industrial part of Libya with the purest drinking water from the underground reservoirs of the oases located in the southern part of the country. According to independent experts, this is the world's largest engineering project of the currently existing. The little knownness of the project is explained by the fact that the Western media practically did not cover it, and meanwhile the project overtook the world's largest construction activities in its cost: the cost of the project was 25 billion dollars.

Gaddafi began work on the project back in the 80s, and by the time this war began, it was practically implemented. We note especially: not a cent of foreign money was spent on the construction of the system. And this fact is definitely suggestive, because control over water resources is becoming an increasingly important factor in world politics. Is the current war in Libya the first war for drinking water? After all, there really is a fight for that! The operation of the man-made river is based on the abstraction of water from the 4 huge water reservoirs located in the oases of Hamada, Kufra, Morzuk and Sirt and containing approximately 35 000 cube. kilometers of artesian water! Such a volume of water could completely cover the territory of a country like Germany, while the depth of such a reservoir would be about 100 meters. And according to recent studies, the water from the Libyan artesian sources will last almost 5000 years.



In addition, this water project can rightly be called the “Eighth Wonder of the World” in its scope, as 6,5 transports millions of cubic meters of water through the desert per day, which dramatically increases the area of ​​irrigated desert lands. The project of a man-made river is completely incomparable with what was carried out by Soviet leaders in Central Asia with the aim of irrigating its cotton fields and which led to the Aral disaster. The fundamental difference of the Libyan irrigation project is that the irrigation of agricultural land uses a practically inexhaustible underground, rather than a surface water source, which is easily exposed to significant damage in a short period of time. Transportation of water occurs in a closed way through the use of 4 thousands of kilometers of steel pipes buried deep in the ground. Water from the artesian basins is pumped through 270 mines from a depth of several hundred meters. One cubic meter of crystal clear water from Libyan underground tanks, taking into account all the costs of its extraction and transportation, cost the Libyan state only 35 cents, which is roughly comparable to the cost of a cubic meter of cold water in a large city in Russia, for example, in Moscow. If we take into account the cost of a cubic meter of drinking water in European countries (approximately 2 euros), then the cost of reserves of artesian water in Libyan underground reservoirs is, by the most approximate estimates, almost 60 billion euros. Agree that a similar amount of continuing to grow in the price of the resource may be of much more serious interest than oil.



Before the war, the man-made river irrigated around XNUMHga, actively developed for agriculture. And to the south, on the territory of the Sahara, raised to the surface aryks serve as a watering place for animals. And most importantly, drinking water was supplied to the major cities of the country, in particular the capital Tripoli.

Here are the most important dates in stories Libya's Great Man-Made River Irrigation Project, recognized as the largest in the world in 2008 by the Guinness Book of Records:
• October 3, 1983 - A general people's congress of the Libyan Jamahiriya was convened and an emergency session was held, at which the start of funding for the project was announced.
• August 28, 1984 - The leader of Libya lays the first stone in the starting structure of the project.
• August 26, 1989 - The second phase of construction of the irrigation system begins.
• September 11, 1989 - water entered the reservoir in Ajdabiya.
• September 28, 1989 - water entered the Grand Omar Muktar reservoir.
• September 4, 1991 - water enters the Al-Ghardabiya reservoir.
• August 28, 1996 - the beginning of regular water supply to Tripoli.
• September 28, 2007 - water appeared in the city of Garyan.

Due to the fact that countries neighboring Libya, including Egypt, are suffering from a shortage of water resources, it is logical to assume that the Jamahiriya with its water project was quite capable of significantly expanding its influence in the region, starting the green revolution in neighboring countries and, in the literal sense of the word, since due to the irrigation of the North African fields, most of the nutrition problems in Africa would be resolved very quickly, ensuring the countries of the region with economic independence. And the corresponding attempts took place. Gaddafi actively encouraged the peasants of Egypt to come and work in the fields of Libya.



The Libyan water project has become a real slap in the whole West, because both the World Bank and the US State Department are promoting only projects that benefit them, such as the sea water desalination project in Saudi Arabia, which costs $ 4 per cubic meter of water. Obviously, the West is beneficial water shortage - it supports its high price.

It is noteworthy that, speaking at the celebration of the anniversary of the beginning of the construction of the river, 1 of September last year, Gaddafi said: “Now that this achievement of the Libyan people has become obvious, the US threat against our country will double!” Besides, a few years ago, Gaddafi stated that Libyan irrigation project will be "the most serious response to America, which constantly accuses Libya of sympathizing with terrorism and the existence of petrodollars." A very eloquent fact was the support of this project and the former Egyptian President Mubarak. And this is probably not a coincidence.
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  1. +12
    18 October 2011 08: 52
    Not a country but a Klondike, eldorado, no, everything needs to be urgently bombed
  2. SIA
    SIA
    0
    18 October 2011 09: 02
    Would you bomb everything? What prevented you water in Libya?
    1. +3
      18 October 2011 11: 04
      I wrote my comment with irony. But seriously, in relation to Libya, there is now a poorly veiled slaughter for resources and absolutely nothing else.
  3. boos24
    +2
    18 October 2011 09: 49
    and who said that he was a tyrant, get out of there and let people live normally
  4. ba1ex
    +2
    18 October 2011 10: 00
    Something tells me that NATO members have clearly revised James Bond's "Quantum of Solace", where almost the same scenario was associated with water only in a slightly different interpretation ...
  5. +4
    18 October 2011 10: 46
    So have natural resources. If you cannot protect them, they will immediately declare you a "bloody dictator", kill you, and take away the treasures. The Soviet Union could defend its storerooms, but Russia is no longer the same watchman.
  6. Ion coaelung
    +3
    18 October 2011 10: 51
    There were clearly involved corporations for the sale of water and food. This is how monopoly works!
  7. +3
    18 October 2011 11: 04
    Something in the West is a little stiff with the imagination, now that the war is unleashing and all the same pretext - a bloody dictator supporting terrorists .. well, at least for the sake of a change they came up with something else.
    1. Glory
      +3
      18 October 2011 11: 22
      Why come up with something new? And so it turns out pretty well, people hawala, especially considering the fact that 99% of the world's media are controlled by the West.
  8. +6
    18 October 2011 11: 22
    ... most of the nutritional problems in Africa would be resolved very quickly, providing the countries of the region with economic independence ....
    -Maybe this is a key phrase.
    Be that as it may, the Jamahiriya was clearly not a banana republic with a wild dictator, as we are told by the media.
  9. tullamore
    +5
    18 October 2011 15: 45
    I’m not going to talk about the War in Libya (a farce is complete in my opinion) I’ll say this .... The British were some of the main instigators ... they’re everywhere there ... and what’s going on in their country .... country it’s just rapidly turning into the countries of the Islamic world ... soon there will be no White on the streets to see ....
    Gaddafi, maybe the Dictator ... maybe he oppressed someone ... but he invested in his country, invested a lot ... these regions will not live according to the Democratic rules and regulations .. they simply do not know how to do this and cannot imagine. .. they are already in debt to European companies, countries ... Europeans would have to understand at home rather than climb where they should not ....
    1. Gosta
      0
      18 October 2011 15: 52
      And we do not have the same on the streets?
      1. tullamore
        +1
        18 October 2011 16: 08
        do not compare those slaughtered Uzbeks and those who flooded Moscow with those Arabs here ... in England ..... we will not talk about people from the Caucasus .... especially since OURS will call them that ... at least the clothes don’t stand out very much ... and the local people don’t hesitate to go in the same clothes as there ... a couple in general to understand which country you are in is very difficult ....
        1. 0
          18 October 2011 22: 42
          Yes you! develop your eyes! Central Asian women are no longer embarrassed to go in the summer in our Vladimir region, in the veil and trousers, and in Moscow when I happen to see the same thing.
  10. ztk1
    +3
    18 October 2011 17: 38
    Gaddafi (I propose to consider Gaddafi as chairman of the board of the Libya company) did a lot: a successful water supply project, proper oil trade, social projects, only one thing failed - protecting his business. ... Raiders came and took what was poorly guarded. Your business must be protected.
    1. tullamore
      +5
      18 October 2011 20: 26
      protection from raiders would have turned out if these raiders hadn’t attracted the entire rotting European Union as an assistant ..... and yet .. just to take out a couple of our Cruisers rusting on the roads of Sevastopol and put them off the coast of Libya and say, “Let everyone figure it out” MOST LIBYAN PEOPLE ...... - but it is so ... looks with an eye on the past .....
      1. Marat
        +4
        18 October 2011 21: 38
        The USSR could have acted like this - a visit to warships has cooled aggressors in the past
        Unfortunately, he or his substitute is not yet
  11. Mahamont
    +7
    18 October 2011 18: 00
    An instructive example for Russia. We can do something similar in Asia too. In the Kara-kum desert, for example. And let Turkmenistan work there in the fields and not go to install toilets in Moscow. And NATO will shout - "the evil empire has revived !!". And we, "Mordor is behind us and we have nowhere to retreat !!!" Have I drunk a lot ?!))
    1. jamert
      -5
      18 October 2011 20: 59
      A lot of. Karakum desert is not in Russia
    2. +1
      18 October 2011 22: 52
      The very thing. Straight no more no less.
  12. +2
    18 October 2011 19: 36
    begging ... around one loot ...- su-ki (go to Siberia, away from this madhouse)
    1. Mahamont
      +1
      18 October 2011 20: 16
      You will not believe it, but .. in Siberia the same shnyaga))
      1. +3
        18 October 2011 20: 31
        belay sad Toda go to Pyongyang to build communism
      2. Sergh
        +1
        19 October 2011 07: 49
        Dmitry, don't tell me! We in Novosibirsk teach them a little order. In the sense that our youth "Nazis" run after them in the evenings sometimes, well, probably in words "they convince", I don't really know. So they try not to differ.
  13. +5
    18 October 2011 21: 23
    Once again, he was convinced that if somewhere it became too good, then the Pindos here and there, like a little devil from a snuffbox, jump out and try to frighten everyone to the utmost.
    1. +1
      18 October 2011 21: 40
      they are trying to cut bababos! they are even ready to pump cadaveric poison and sell it like a world if only the profit was, that’s all! nation of moral deserters!
    2. Marat
      +3
      18 October 2011 21: 41
      And at the same time, people only get worse (those who survived)
      And Iraq was bombed into the "Stone Age" and Libyans will not soon return to their previous standard of living, etc.
  14. zczczc
    +2
    18 October 2011 21: 56
    I heard that one of the reasons why they decided to remove him was because he had almost agreed to implement a similar project for the entire region around.
  15. 0
    18 October 2011 22: 17
    I have no words, only gestures alone!
  16. +3
    18 October 2011 22: 48
    But in the 80s they did not believe the communists about the aggressiveness of the so-called "Western democracies".
    1. +3
      18 October 2011 23: 16
      so far I still remember the words about the decaying west, our elite looked at the root, and we were led to jeans with Pepsi and chewing gum, sadly but for some reason a lesson for the future. As they say. As the saying goes, the warrior who loses the battle is not bad, but the warrior who didn’t wait for his battle and taught his son how to dodge the smash of the VRVG is bad.
  17. Comrade
    +2
    19 October 2011 02: 03
    Oh, but I would like to see the fruits of this grandiose project .... a green, prosperous, happy and prosperous Libya .... It is not destined ..... (((But the most offensive that this happened with the terrible connivance of our authorities who did not veto that bloody resolution ... (((
    1. 0
      19 October 2011 20: 13
      Who knows, and maybe we'll see, we are not our descendants.
  18. sergeis
    -1
    19 October 2011 07: 13
    I wonder since when Jordan and the United States became part of Libya?
    The first photo with circles was shot in Jordan:
    http://vasi.net/community/kartinki/2009/05/20/svezhaja_podborka_nasha_planeta_vi
    d_sverkhu.html

    And the last photo was shot in the USA .:
    http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Oc-Po/Ogallala-Aquifer.html

    :)
  19. gr0ss
    -1
    21 October 2011 07: 08
    sergeis,
    we can add that all the photos, except the one in which Gaddafi is present, are taken from one place - http://www.agroterra.com/p/pivot-riego-sistema-urapivot-de-riego-pivot-urapivot-
    19220/19220, the site of the Spanish manufacturer of irrigation equipment, and even the file names are the same.
    1. +1
      21 October 2011 07: 22
      The author did not find the best pictures, used what was.

      But these photos are 100% Libya. can check for yourself through google earth.


      Location: Libya, area, Cyrenaica, Kufra oasis.
      Google Earth coordinates: 24.1306, 23.2289





      Here is another photo, Oasis of Kufra:



      Who do you want to know, you are our erudite, the author of the article, or that the project is a lie?
      1. gr0ss
        -1
        22 October 2011 02: 37
        Of course, the author of the article - a small lie gives rise to big doubts. For example, it is not clear where the information about the desalination project in Saudi Arabia comes from at $ 4 per cubic meter. Google finds price information from 0.78 to 1.03 dollars per cubic meter. Moreover, this is ocean water, which will never really end, unlike these underground reservoirs.
  20. Alder41
    0
    25 October 2011 14: 26
    Found the original:
    http://thesantosrepublic.com/2011/07/greed-over-libyan-secret-treasure-blue-gold
    /

    Here is another small lie of the author of the article:

    It is noteworthy that, speaking at the celebration of the anniversary of the beginning of the construction of the river, September 1 last year, Gaddafi said:

    “Now that this achievement of the Libyan people has become apparent, the US threat against our country will double!”


    Gaddafi said this at the opening of the Great Man-Made River in 1996.

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