Libea Lake. The true reason for the collapse of the Empire Gaddafi
This is the largest engineering and construction project of modernity, thanks to which the inhabitants of the country gained access to drinking water and were able to settle in those areas where no one had ever lived. Now 6.5 million cubic meters of freshwater used daily through underground waterways, used also for the development of agriculture in the region. As the construction of this grand object happened, read further.
The eighth wonder of the world
The cumulative length of the underground communications of the artificial river is close to four thousand kilometers. The volume of the carved and pasted during the construction of the soil - 155 million cubic meters is 12 times more than when creating an Asuan dam. And the expended building materials would have enough for the construction of 16 pyramids of Heops. In addition to pipes and aqueducts, more than 1,300 well wells are included in the system, most of which have a depth of more than 500 meters. The total depth of wells is 70 times higher than the height of Everest. 
The main branches of the water supply consist of concrete pipes of 7.5 meters long, a diameter of 4 meters and weighing more than 80 tons (up to 83 tons). And each of the more than 530 thousand such pipes could easily serve a tunnel for trains of the metro.
From the main pipes, the water enters the tanks built near the cities around 4 to 24 million cubic meters, and the local water pipes of cities and villages begin.
Freshwater enters the water supply from underground sources located in the south of the country and nourishes settlements focused mainly off the coast Mediterranean Sea, including the largest cities of Libya - Tripoli, Benghazi, Sirt. Water fence is carried out from the Nubian aquifer, which is the largest sources of fossil water known in the world.
The Nubian aquifer is located in the eastern part of the Sahara desert on the square of more than two million square kilometers and includes 11 large underground tanks. The territory of Libya is located over four of them.
In addition to Libya, there are several other African states on the Nubian layer, including North-West Sudan, northeastern Chad and most of Egypt. 
Nubian aquifer Life was opened in 1953 by British geologists during the search for oil fields. Freshwater in it is hidden under a layer of hard glandular sandstone with a thickness of 100 to 500 meters and, as scientists have established, accumulated under the ground at that time when fertile savages irrigated with frequent abundant rains stretched.
Most of this water was accumulated from 38 to 14 thousand years ago, although some reservoirs were formed relatively recently - about a five thousandth year to our era. When three thousand years ago, the climate of the planet changed dramatically, then the sugar became the desert, but the water leaked in the ground for thousands of years was already accumulated in the underground horizons. 
After opening the huge stocks of fresh water, the projects of building an irrigation system immediately appeared. However, the idea was implemented a lot later and only thanks to the Government of Muammar Gaddafi.
The project assumed the creation of water supply on the delivery of water from underground reservoirs from the south to the north of the country, to the industrial and more populated part of Libya. In October 1983, the project management was created and its financing began. The total cost of the project by the beginning of construction was estimated at $ 25 billion, and the period of scheduled implementation was at least 25 years.
Construction was divided into five phases: the first is the construction of a pipe plant and a pipeline with a length of 1200 kilometers with a daily supply in Benghazi and Sirty two million cubic meters of water; The second is to bring pipelines to Tripoli and providing its daily supply volume of one million cubic meters of water; The third is the completion of the construction of a water conduit from Kufra's oasis to Benghazi; The last two is the construction of the Western branch to the city of Tobruk and the union of branches in a single system near the city of Sirt. 
The fields that appeared due to the Great River, are well visible from the space: on satellite images they have the shape of bright green circles scattered in the middle of gray-yellow desert areas. In the photo: cultivated fields near the oasis of Kufra.
Direct construction work began in 1984 - August 28 Muammar Gaddafi laid the first stone project. The cost of the first phase of the project was estimated at 5 billion dollars. Construction in Libya unique, the world's first plant for the production of giant pipes was implemented by South Korean specialists in modern technologies.
Specialists of leading global companies from the USA, Turkey, Great Britain, Japan and Germany arrived in the country. The new technique was purchased. For laying concrete pipes, 3700 kilometers of roads were built, which allowed moving around hard technique. The work of migrants from Bangladesh, Philippines and Vietnam was used as the main unskilled workforce. 
In 1989, the water entered the reservoir of Advibia and the Grand Omar Muktar, and in 1991 - in the al-Gardabia reservoir. The first and the largest thing was officially opened in August 1991 - the water supply began such major cities as Sirt and Benghazi. Already in August 1996, regular water supply was established in the capital of Libya - Tripoli. 
As a result, 33 billion dollars were spent on the creation of the eighth miracle of light by the Government of Libya, and financing was carried out without international loans and support for the IMF. Recognizing the right to the water supply is one of the fundamental human rights, the Government of Libya has not charged a fee for water.
The government also tried to buy anything for the project in the "First World" countries, and everything you need to produce within the country. All materials used for the project were local production, and the plant built in the city of El Buraka released more than half a million pipes with a diameter of four meters from the pre-stressed reinforced concrete. 
Prior to the construction of the water pipeline, 96% of Libya territory accounted for the desert, and only 4% of the lands were suitable for human life.
After the complete completion of the project, it was planned to supply water and cultivate 155 thousand hectares of land.
By 2011, it was possible to establish the supply of 6.5 million cubic meters of fresh water in the city of Libya, providing 4.5 million people with it. At the same time, 70% of the produced Libya water was consumed in the agricultural sector, 28% by the population, and the remaining part of the industry.
But the goal of the government was not only a complete provision of the population freshwater, but also to reduce the dependence of Libya from imported food, and in the future - the country's way out on the fulfillment of food production.
With the development of water, large agricultural farms were built for the production of wheat, oats, corn and barley, which were previously imported. Due to the watering machines connected to the irrigation system, the circles of man-made oasis and fields of diameter from several hundred meters to three kilometers increased in the arid regions of the country. 
Measures to encourage Libyans to move to the south of the country were also adopted, in the economy created in the desert. However, not all local population moved away with the preferring to live in northern coastal areas.
Therefore, the country's government appealed to the Egyptian peasants with the invitation of the arrival in Libya to work. After all, Libya's population is only 6 million people, whereas in Egypt - more than 80 million living mainly along the Nile. The water supply was also allowed to organize a recreation center for people and animals with water trenches with water testers (aryks) in sugar on the paths of caravans of camels.
Libya even began to carry out water supplies to the neighboring Egypt. 
Compared to Soviet irrigation projects implemented in Central Asia with the purpose of irrigating the cotton fields, the project of the man-made river had a number of fundamental differences.
First, for the irrigation of the agricultural land, Libya used a huge underground, and not superficial and relatively small, compared with the collected volumes, the source. As everything, probably know, the result of the Central Asian project was the Aral ecological catastrophe.
Secondly, the loss of water was excluded in Libya during transportation, as the delivery was covered in a private way, which excluded evaporation. Defeated these shortcomings, the created water supply was the advanced water supply system into arid regions.
When Gaddafi was just starting his project, he became the object of permanent rides from the Western media. It was then that in the mass media states and Britain a derogatory stamp "Dream in the pipe" appeared.
But after 20 years in one of the rare materials dedicated to the success of the project, the National Geographic magazine recognized him with "epochial". By this time, engineers from all over the world went to gaining the Libyan experience of a hydraulineery.
Since 1990, assistance in supporting and educating engineers and technicians has become UNESCO. Gaddafi also identified a water project as "America's strongest answer, which accuses Libya in supporting terrorism, saying that we are not capable of anything else." 
Available freshwater resources have long been in the sphere of interests of transnational corporations. At the same time, the World Bank in every way supports the idea of \u200b\u200bprivatization of fresh water sources, at the same time in every way braking water projectswhich arid countries are trying to embody on their own, without the involvement of Western corporations. For example, by the World Bank and the IMF over the past 20 years, several projects for improving irrigation and water supply in Egypt have been blocked by the construction of a canal on white Nile in South Sudan.
Against this background, the resources of the Nubian aquifer are a huge commercial interest for major foreign corporations, and the Libyan project looks not fit into a common scheme for the private development of water wealth.
Look at these figures: global fresh water reserves, concentrated in the rivers and lakes of the Earth, are estimated at 200 thousand cubic kilometers. Of these, in Baikal (the largest freshwater lake) contain 23 thousand cubic meters, and in all five great lakes - 22.7 thousand. The reserves of the Nubian reservoir are 150 thousand cubic kilometers, that is, they are only 25% less than that water, which is contained in rivers and lakes.
At the same time, it is impossible to forget that most of the rivers and lakes of the planet are strongly contaminated. Scientists consider the reserves of the Nubian aquifer equivalent to two years of the course of the Nile River. If you take the largest underground reserves found in sedimentary rocks under Libya, Algeria and Chad, they will be enough to cover all these territories of the 75-meter thick water.
According to estimates, these reserves are enough for 4-5 thousand years of consumption. 
Prior to the commissioning of the water supply system, the cost of Libya's desalted sea water was $ 3.75 per ton. The construction of its own water supply system allowed Libya to completely abandon imports.
At the same time, the sum of all the costs of extracting and transporting 1 cubic meter of water accounted for the Libyan state (before the war) in 35 American cents, which is 11 times less than before. It was already comparable to the cost of cold tap water in the cities of Russia. For comparison: the cost of water in european countries It is approximately 2 euros.
In this sense, the value of the reserves of Libyan water is much higher than the value of the reserves of all its oil fields. So, proven oil reserves in Libya - 5.1 billion tons - at the current price of $ 400 per ton will be about 2 trillion dollars.
Compare them with the cost of water: even on the basis of the minimum 35 cents per cubic meter, the reserves of Libyan water are 10-15 trillions of dollars (with the total cost of water in the Nubian layer of 55 trillion), that is, 5-7 times the larger reserves of Libyan oil . If you start exporting this water in a bottled form, then the sum will increase repeatedly.
Therefore, the statements according to which the military operation in Libya was nothing more than "War for Water", have quite obvious grounds. 
In addition to the political risk designated above, the great artificial river had at least two. She was the first major project of this kind, so no one with reliable accuracy could predict what would happen when the aquifers will begin to be exhausted. There were concerns that the whole system simply collapses under his own weight in the voids formed, which would result in large-scale soil failures in the territories of several African countries. On the other hand, it was not clear what would happen with existing natural oases, since many of them were initially fueled thanks to underground aquifers. Today, at least drying up one of the natural lakes in the Libyan Oasis, Kufra is associated with excessive exploitation of aquifer.
But be that as it may, on this moment The artificial Libyan River is one of the most complicated, most expensive and large engineering projects implemented by humanity, but grew out of the dream of a single person "make the desert of green as the flag of Libyan Jamahiriya."
On modern satellite images it can be seen that after the bloody American-European aggression, round fields in Libya are now quickly turning into the desert ... 
On October 20, the next anniversary of the death of Muammar Gaddafi will be fulfilled from the hands of Al-Qaida militants used by NATO in Libya as ground force for overthrowing the sole regime of Arab socialism. The leader of Jamahiriria West put in blame the encroachment on the income of transnational corporations (TNC), providing the balance of the Golden Billion. Global projects of Colonel Gaddafi - Irrigation of the Libyan Desert, the Panfrikan currency "Golden Dinar" and the nationalization of a third of oil production - made Libya by the leader of the whole of Africa, depriving the Western TNC monopoly on the supply of products, water and pumping oil. That is why US President Obama stated that the death of Gaddafi confirms the "American leadership in the world."
Indeed, all Black Africa is still laid in dollar slavery, Libyan oil is captured by the IG, and the "Great Man-made River" is on the verge of capturing by militants. The interest of Islamists to a large reservoir with fresh water, which is 20 km east of Sirta, not accidental. In North Africa, as in the Middle East, drinking water is three times more expensive than oil, and its reserves in Libya are greater than oil: 35 thousand cubic meters. km of artesian water against 5.1 billion tons of oil worth 60 trillion. Euro. This explains why Gaddafi was foreshadowed by the doubling of US threats against Libya 30 years ago: "The United States will do everything under a different subtext, but this cause will stop this achievement ...". For the same reason, the main sponsors of the war against Libya in France are the firms for the sale of fresh water.
"The Great Man-made River" - so in Libya called a giant water supply system, which connects the underground sea of \u200b\u200bartesian water in the Nubian oasis with the largest cities of Libya. Its construction began in 1984 and cost $ 25 billion. It is recognized as the largest irrigation structure in the world, and Gaddafi himself called it the "eighth miracle of the world." Four thousand pipes, four meters in diameter, from a stress reinforced concrete are combined under the ground in a complex system with a thousand Anytains, mines and wells to 500 meters deep. She pumped 6.5 million cubic meters. M of water per day and irrigate 160 thousand hectares of land. It took 85 million cubic meters for her structure. m soil. It is obliged to exploring oil fields in South Libya in the early 50s of the last century, when instead of oil, a Nubian aquifer was discovered.
However, the economic effect of the "Great Hand-made River" was even more ambitious. Artificial irrigation not only provided Libya food independence, but also turned it into the importer of cereals and corn. Due to the fact that the project was built without foreign investment, Libya managed to preserve the world's lowest price for drinking water - 36 cents per cubic meter. For comparison: water in the EU costs 2 euros, and for sale Arab and African US countries, Israel and Saudi Arabia Send for 3.75 - 4 dollars. Gaddafi crushing world prices for artesian water and intended, due to the irrigation of the North African deserts, to solve the problem of hunger in Africa, in order to continue to provide economic independence to countries in the region.
Muammar Gaddafi presented this project as a gift to the third world and said celebrating: "After that, the achievements are doubled the threat of the United States against Libya .... The United States will do everything under a different pretext, but the present cause will stop this achievement to leave the people of Libya oppressed. "
It was a real silence of the West, about which the Western press was stubbornly. After all, the Water is beneficial for water shortages to maintain high water prices for developing countries and speculate on this humanitarian problem for their political influence in the third world countries. In South Sudan, the IMF and the World Bank blocked the construction of a canal on white Nile in 1980, and overpopulated Egypt did not give the peasants to the plain from the narrow floodplain and the Nile delta. According to the reserves of fresh water, Libya is in the first place in the world, its value is 40 times the cost of its oil reserves. That is why the overthrow of Gaddafi became the first war for drinking water.
The great man-made river in Libya is the largest engineering and construction project of modernity, thanks to which residents of the country have access to drinking water and were able to settle in those areas where no one had ever lived. Now 6.5 million cubic meters of freshwater used daily through underground waterways, used also for the development of agriculture in the region. As the construction of this grand object happened, read further.
The eighth wonder of the world
The cumulative length of the underground communications of the artificial river is close to four thousand kilometers. The volume of the carved and pasted during the construction of the soil - 155 million cubic meters is 12 times more than when creating an Asuan dam. And the expended building materials would have enough for the construction of 16 pyramids of Heops. In addition to pipes and aqueducts, more than 1,300 well wells are included in the system, most of which have a depth of more than 500 meters. The total depth of wells is 70 times higher than the height of Everest.
The main branches of the water supply consist of concrete pipes of 7.5 meters long, a diameter of 4 meters and weighing more than 80 tons (up to 83 tons). And each of the more than 530 thousand such pipes could easily serve a tunnel for trains of the metro.
From the main pipes, the water enters the tanks built near the cities around 4 to 24 million cubic meters, and the local water pipes of cities and villages begin.
Freshwater enters a water supply from underground sources located in the south of the country, and nourishes settlements focused mainly off the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, including the largest cities of Libya - Tripoli, Benghazi, Sirt. Water fence is carried out from the Nubian aquifer, which is the largest sources of fossil water known in the world.
The Nubian aquifer is located in the eastern part of the Sahara desert on the square of more than two million square kilometers and includes 11 large underground tanks. The territory of Libya is located over four of them.
In addition to Libya, there are several other African states on the Nubian layer, including North-West Sudan, northeastern Chad and most of Egypt.
The Nubian aquifer of life was opened in 1953 by British geologists during the search for oil fields. Freshwater in it is hidden under a layer of hard glandular sandstone with a thickness of 100 to 500 meters and, as scientists have established, accumulated under the ground at that time when fertile savages irrigated with frequent abundant rains stretched.
Most of this water was accumulated from 38 to 14 thousand years ago, although some reservoirs were formed relatively recently - about a five thousandth year to our era. When three thousand years ago, the climate of the planet changed dramatically, then the sugar became the desert, but the water leaked in the ground for thousands of years was already accumulated in the underground horizons.
After opening the huge stocks of fresh water, the projects of building an irrigation system immediately appeared. However, the idea was implemented a lot later and only thanks to the Government of Muammar Gaddafi.
The project assumed the creation of water supply on the delivery of water from underground reservoirs from the south to the north of the country, to the industrial and more populated part of Libya. In October 1983, the project management was created and its financing began. The total cost of the project by the beginning of construction was estimated at $ 25 billion, and the period of scheduled implementation was at least 25 years.
Construction was divided into five phases: the first is the construction of a pipe plant and a pipeline with a length of 1200 kilometers with a daily supply in Benghazi and Sirty two million cubic meters of water; The second is to bring pipelines to Tripoli and providing its daily supply volume of one million cubic meters of water; The third is the completion of the construction of a water conduit from Kufra's oasis to Benghazi; The last two is the construction of the Western branch to the city of Tobruk and the union of branches in a single system near the city of Sirt.
The fields that appeared due to the Great River, are well visible from the space: on satellite images they have the shape of bright green circles scattered in the middle of gray-yellow desert areas. In the photo: cultivated fields near the oasis of Kufra.
Direct construction work began in 1984 - August 28 Muammar Gaddafi laid the first stone project. The cost of the first phase of the project was estimated at 5 billion dollars. Construction in Libya unique, the world's first plant for the production of giant pipes was implemented by South Korean specialists in modern technologies.
Specialists of leading global companies from the USA, Turkey, Great Britain, Japan and Germany arrived in the country. The new technique was purchased. For laying concrete pipes, 3700 kilometers of roads were built, which allowed moving around hard technique. The work of migrants from Bangladesh, Philippines and Vietnam was used as the main unskilled workforce.
In 1989, the water entered the reservoir of Advibia and the Grand Omar Muktar, and in 1991 - in the al-Gardabia reservoir. The first and the largest thing was officially opened in August 1991 - the water supply began such major cities as Sirt and Benghazi. Already in August 1996, regular water supply was established in the capital of Libya - Tripoli.
As a result, 33 billion dollars were spent on the creation of the eighth miracle of light by the Government of Libya, and financing was carried out without international loans and support for the IMF. Recognizing the right to the water supply is one of the fundamental human rights, the Government of Libya has not charged a fee for water.
The government also tried to buy anything for the project in the "First World" countries, and everything you need to produce within the country. All materials used for the project were local production, and the plant built in the city of El Buraka released more than half a million pipes with a diameter of four meters from the pre-stressed reinforced concrete.
Prior to the construction of the water pipeline, 96% of Libya territory accounted for the desert, and only 4% of the lands were suitable for human life.
After the complete completion of the project, it was planned to supply water and cultivate 155 thousand hectares of land.
By 2011, it was possible to establish the supply of 6.5 million cubic meters of fresh water in the city of Libya, providing 4.5 million people with it. At the same time, 70% of the produced Libya water was consumed in the agricultural sector, 28% by the population, and the remaining part of the industry.
But the goal of the government was not only the complete support of the population of fresh water, but also to reduce the dependence of Libya from imported food, and later the country's output on fully own food production.
With the development of water, large agricultural farms were built for the production of wheat, oats, corn and barley, which were previously imported. Due to the watering machines connected to the irrigation system, the circles of man-made oasis and fields of diameter from several hundred meters to three kilometers increased in the arid regions of the country.
Measures to encourage Libyans to move to the south of the country were also adopted, in the economy created in the desert. However, not all local population moved away with the preferring to live in northern coastal areas.
Therefore, the country's government appealed to the Egyptian peasants with the invitation of the arrival in Libya to work. After all, Libya's population is only 6 million people, whereas in Egypt - more than 80 million living mainly along the Nile. The water supply was also allowed to organize a recreation center for people and animals with water trenches with water testers (aryks) in sugar on the paths of caravans of camels.
Libya even began to carry out water supplies to the neighboring Egypt.
Compared to Soviet irrigation projects implemented in Central Asia with the purpose of irrigating the cotton fields, the project of the man-made river had a number of fundamental differences.
First, for the irrigation of the agricultural land, Libya used a huge underground, and not superficial and relatively small, compared with the collected volumes, the source. As everything, probably know, the result of the Central Asian project was the Aral ecological catastrophe.
Secondly, the loss of water was excluded in Libya during transportation, as the delivery was covered in a private way, which excluded evaporation. Defeated these shortcomings, the created water supply was the advanced water supply system into arid regions.
When Gaddafi was just starting his project, he became the object of permanent rides from the Western media. It was then that in the mass media states and Britain a derogatory stamp "Dream in the pipe" appeared.
But after 20 years in one of the rare materials dedicated to the success of the project, the National Geographic magazine recognized him with "epochial". By this time, engineers from all over the world went to gaining the Libyan experience of a hydraulineery.
Since 1990, assistance in supporting and educating engineers and technicians has become UNESCO. Gaddafi also identified a water project as "America's strongest answer, which accuses Libya in supporting terrorism, saying that we are not capable of anything else."
Available freshwater resources have long been in the sphere of interests of transnational corporations. At the same time, the World Bank in every way supports the idea of \u200b\u200bprivatization of fresh water sources, while in every way in every way the water projects that arid countries are trying to bring to life independently, without the involvement of Western corporations. For example, by the World Bank and the IMF over the past 20 years, several projects for improving irrigation and water supply in Egypt have been blocked by the construction of a canal on white Nile in South Sudan.
Against this background, the resources of the Nubian aquifer are a huge commercial interest for major foreign corporations, and the Libyan project looks not fit into a common scheme for the private development of water wealth.
Look at these figures: global fresh water reserves, concentrated in the rivers and lakes of the Earth, are estimated at 200 thousand cubic kilometers. Of these, in Baikal (the largest freshwater lake) contain 23 thousand cubic meters, and in all five great lakes - 22.7 thousand. The reserves of the Nubian reservoir are 150 thousand cubic kilometers, that is, they are only 25% less than that water, which is contained in rivers and lakes.
At the same time, it is impossible to forget that most of the rivers and lakes of the planet are strongly contaminated. Scientists consider the reserves of the Nubian aquifer equivalent to two years of the course of the Nile River. If you take the largest underground reserves found in sedimentary rocks under Libya, Algeria and Chad, they will be enough to cover all these territories of the 75-meter thick water.
According to estimates, these reserves are enough for 4-5 thousand years of consumption.
Prior to the commissioning of the water supply system, the cost of the desolate sea water being purchased by Libya was $ 3.75 per ton. The construction of its own water supply system allowed Libya to completely abandon imports.
At the same time, the sum of all the costs of extracting and transporting 1 cubic meter of water accounted for the Libyan state (before the war) in 35 American cents, which is 11 times less than before. It was already comparable to the cost of cold tap water in the cities of Russia. For comparison: the cost of water in European countries is approximately 2 euros.
In this sense, the value of the reserves of Libyan water is much higher than the value of the reserves of all its oil fields. So, proven oil reserves in Libya - 5.1 billion tons - at the current price of $ 400 per ton will be about 2 trillion dollars.
Compare them with the cost of water: even on the basis of the minimum 35 cents per cubic meter, the reserves of Libyan water are 10-15 trillions of dollars (with the total cost of water in the Nubian layer of 55 trillion), that is, 5-7 times the larger reserves of Libyan oil . If you start exporting this water in a bottled form, then the sum will increase repeatedly.
Therefore, the statements according to which the military operation in Libya was nothing more than "War for Water", have quite obvious grounds.
In addition to the political risk designated above, the great artificial river had at least two. She was the first major project of this kind, so no one with reliable accuracy could predict what would happen when the aquifers will begin to be exhausted. There were concerns that the whole system simply collapses under his own weight in the voids formed, which would result in large-scale soil failures in the territories of several African countries. On the other hand, it was not clear what would happen with existing natural oases, since many of them were initially fueled thanks to underground aquifers. Today, at least drying up one of the natural lakes in the Libyan Oasis, Kufra is associated with excessive exploitation of aquifer.
But be that as it may, at the moment, the artificial Libyan river is one of the most complicated, most expensive and large engineering projects implemented by humanity, but grew out of the dream of a single person "to make the desert of green as the flag of Libyan Jamahiriya."
On modern satellite images it can be seen that after the bloody American-European aggression, round fields in Libya are now quickly turning into the desert ...
May 31st, 2018
Repeatedly met the mention of this Libyan project, but all the information that came across could be reminded some of the "the theory of conspiracies." Of course, without this, it did not cost here, but for you (who has not yet read) some of the implementation details and contemporary state This huge project.
The largest engineering and construction project of modernity is considered Great Manome River (English. The Great Manmade River) - a huge underground network of water pipes, delivering 6.5 million cubic meters every day drinking water On the day in the settlements of the deserted districts and the coast of Libya. The project is incredibly significant for this country, but also it gives grounds in a somewhat friend, different from Western funds. mass media, Light look at the former leader of Libyan Jamahiriya Muammar Gaddafi. Perhaps it is this that you can explain the fact that the implementation of this media project is practically not covered.
This huge system of pipes and aqueducts also includes more than 1,300 wells in a depth of more than 500 meters, supplies the city of Tripoli, Benghazi, Sirt and others. Muammar Gaddafi called this river "the eighth miracle of the world." In 2008, the Guinness Book of Records recognized the Great River the largest irrigation project in the world.
Let's learn about this project more likely ...
In the 1960s, 4 giant underground water tanks were found in Libya in the Sahara desert.
one). The Kufra Basin,
2). The Sirt Basin,
3) The Morzuk Basin and
four). The Hamada Basin. The first three contains 35 thousand cubic kilometers of water!
Back in the 80s, Gaddafi began a large-scale project to create a network of water resources, which should have covered Libya, Egypt, Sudan and Chad.
In October 1983, project management was created to deliver water from the southern part of Libya, where underwater lakes are located, to the northern, industrial part of Libya. In 1996, Artesian water came to the House of the capital of Tripoli!
By the beginning of the war, this project was almost implemented. Speak about readiness for 2/3. The challenge was standing, I must say, historical for the entire North African region, because the problem of water is relevant here from the times of Phenicia. And, more importantly, on a project that could turn all North Africa In the flowering garden, not a single cent of the IMF was spent. S. recent fact Some analysts associate the decomposition destabilization in the region.
The desire for global monopoly on water resources Already is the most important factor in world politics. Maghreb-Nachrichten dated March 20, 2009 reports: "On the 5th World Water Forum, the Libyan authorities presented the Libyan authorities in Istanbul for the first time. The little-known project is explained by the fact that the Western media practically did not cover it, and meanwhile the project overtook the largest construction activities in its value: the cost of the project is $ 25 billion.
The fundamental difference between the Libyan irrigation project is that for the irrigation of agricultural land, a practically inexhaustible underground, and not a surface water source, easily subjected to significant damage in a short period of time. Water transportation occurs in a closed method by using 4 thousand kilometers of steel pipes, buried deep into the ground. Water from the artesian pools is pumped by 270 mines from a few hundred meters depth. One cubic meter of crystal clear water from Libyan underground tanks, taking into account all the costs of its production and transportation, it was worth the Libyan state with only 35 cents, which is approximately comparable to the cost of a cubic meter cold water In the large city of Russia, for example in Moscow. If we take into account the cost of the cubic meter of drinking water in European countries (approximately 2 euros), the cost of the reserves of artesian water in Libyan underground reservoirs is, according to the most approximate estimates, almost 60 billion euros. Agree that a similar amount of continuing to grow in the price of a resource may be of interest much more serious than oil.
With its water project, Libya could begin a real "green revolution". In the literal sense, naturally, it would solve a lot of food problems in Africa. And most importantly, it would ensure stability and economic independence.
Especially, cases are already known when global corporations blocked water projects in the region. It is believed that the World Bank and the IMF intentionally blocked the construction of a canal on white Nile - Jongglei Canal - in South Sudan, there was started and everything was thrown there after the American special services provoked there the growth of separatism. For the IMF, of course, it is much more profitable to impose your own expensive projects, such as water desalination. An independent Libyan project did not fit into their plans. In neighboring Egypt over the past 20 years, all projects for improving irrigation and water supply were sabotaged by the International Monetary Fund.
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 regarding our country will double!" In addition, several years ago, Gaddafi stated that the Libyan irrigation project would be "America's most serious answer, which constantly accuses Libya in sympathy to terrorism and existence on petrodollara." A very eloquentous fact was the support of this project and the former president of Egypt Mubarak. And this is probably not a simple coincidence.
Before the war, the man-made river irrigated about 1600 million, actively mastered under agriculture. And south, on the territory of the Sahara, derived to the surface of the Aryk serve as a place of water of animals. And most importantly, drinking water The major cities of the country were equipped, in particular the capital of Tripoli.
Here are the most important dates in the history of the Libyan Irrigation Project "Great Man-made River", in 2008 recognized by the Guinness Book of Records The largest in the world:
On October 3, 1983 - the Universal People's Congress of Libyan Jamahiriiria was convened and an emergency session was held, on which the project financing began.
Among the latest theories of conspiracies about the actions of the US government, one of the most high-profile and most recent killing of the Libyan leader Moamara Gaddafi is not at all because of the oil, but due to the grand irrigation project. The draft report was to turn the desired Africa into a prosperous continent, which is very unprofitable to those who earn billions on hunger and thirst for Africans.
Construction in Libya a great man-made river for some reason is deprived by the media, despite the fact that this construction has been recognized as the Guinness Book of Records the largest irrigation project in the world. But here are not the scale of the construction of the century, but goals. After all, if the Libyan River will be completed, it will turn Africa from the desert into a fertile continent, the same as, for example, Eurasia or America. However, the entire harness is just in this very "if" ...
In 1953, Libyans, trying to find oil sources in the south of their country, discovered water: giant underground tanks that feed oases. Only after a couple of decades, the residents of Libya understood that a much larger treasure would fall into their hands than black gold. Africa, the time of time, suffering from drought a continent with scarce vegetation, and here literally under his feet - about 35 thousand cubic kilometers of artesian water. An appropriate volume can be, for example, to completely flood the territory of Germany (357,021 square kilometer), and the depth of such a reservoir will be about 100 meters. If this water is released on the surface, it will turn Africa in a flowering garden!
It is such an idea that visited the Libyan leader Moamara Gaddafi. Still, because the territory of Libya is more than 95% of the desert. Under the patronage of Gaddafi, a draft challenging network of pipelines was developed, which would deliver water from the Nubian aquifer into the arid areas of the country. To implement this grand plan in Libya from South Korea Profited specialists in modern technologies. In the city of El Buracy, a plant for the production of reinforced concrete pipes with a diameter of four meters was launched. On August 28, 1984, Moamar Gaddafi personally attended at the beginning of the pipeline construction.
The eighth wonder of the world
The great man-made river is not named the largest irrigation project in the world. Some generally consider it the largest engineering construction on the planet. Gaddafi himself called his creation to the eighth miracle of the world. Now this network includes 1300 wells in a depth of 500 meters, four thousand kilometers under ground concrete pipes, a system of pumping stations, storage tanks, control and control centers. Six and a half million cubic meters of water flow through the pipes and aqueducts of the man-made river, supplying the city of Tripoli, Benghazi, Sirtry, Garyan and others, as well as green among the former field deserts. In the future, Libyans intended to irrigate 130- 150 thousand hectares of cultivated land and, in addition to Libya, include other African countries in this system. Ultimately, Africa would not simply cease to be the forever starving continent, but even herself would begin to export barley, oats, wheat and corn. The completion of the project was planned in 25 years, but ...
Exile from paradise
In early 2011, Libya covered civil WarAnd on October 20, Muamar Gaddafi died at the hands of the rebels. But there is his great man-made river that the true cause of the murder of the Libyan leader was the true cause of the murder of the Libyan leader. First, a number of large powers were engaged in food supplies to African countries. Of course, they are completely unprofitable to transform Africa from the consumer in the manufacturer. Secondly, due to the growth of the population on the planet, fresh water is becoming more and more valuable. Already, many European states are experiencing a lack of drinking water. And here in the hands of Libya, there is a source, which, according to experts, is enough for the next four to five millennia.
Once at the solemn end of one of the stages of the construction of the Great Hand-made River Muaamar Gaddafi, said: "Now, after this, the achievements, the US threats against Libya will double. Americans will make everything to destroy our works and leave the people of Libya oppressed. " By the way, the heads of many African states were present at this celebration, and the leaders of the Black Continent supported the initiative of Gaddafi. Among them was the Egyptian President of Hosni Mubarak. At the beginning of this year, Mubarak was shone from his post as a result of a revolution that suddenly flashed in Egypt. Strange coincidence, isn't it? It is noteworthy that when NATO's forces intervened in the Libyan conflict, in order to "protect the civilian population", their aviation struck the sleeves Great River, pumping stations and destroyed producing concrete pipes factory.
So, I think, with great probability, it can be assumed that a different war comes to the change for oil - for water. And Gaddafi became the first victim of this war.
Evgenia Korlapov
Secrets of the twentieth century No. 48 (Ukraine) 2011
