Impact of Libya's Great Man-Made River Project

El Gran Río Artificial,

una red de tuberías de miles de kilómetros que atraviesa el

desierto y abastece de agua a la inmensa mayoría del país. Es la obra de

riego más grande de la historia de la humanidad y una epopeya hidráulica que

desenterró agua en un país en

el que solo el 5 de su territorio recibe lluvias.

Y además, el agua del Mediterráneo es salada,

por lo que no es apta para el consumo humano.

La apuesta de Gaddafi fue desenterrar agua fósil del medio del desierto y desde

allí bombearla hacia distintos puntos de la enorme Libia.

Así desarrolló la

agricultura y fortaleció ciudades lejos de la costa en una apuesta demográfica

y soberana, clave para el control del territorio.

Una red de tuberías de casi 3 000 kilómetros que comenzó en 1984 y cambió la vida

de millones

de africanos. La apuesta de Gaddafi destruyó rápidamente uno de los proyectos

de infraestructura de agua más grandes del mundo en su búsqueda de destruir Libia.

At the very heart of the Sahara Desert,

Libya has no permanent natural water bodies on its soil.

There's no permanent rivers or lakes.

From the North African country's desert soil, along with the wider Sahara and

part of the Sahel, into farmable land,

this massive engineering project is considered to

be one of the largest projects of its kind ever attempted in human history.

According to a 1987 CIA report,

which was declassified in December 2011,

just two months after Gaddafi's assassination, this project, if done right,

had the potential to sustain Libya's water supply indefinitely,

as well as greatly reduce its dependence on food imports.

Suffice it to say that NATO was fully aware of this in July 2011,

when it bombed a factory in Abregar, one of Libya's

industrial hubs which was producing pipes for the Great Man Med River project.

The true motive, however, was very clear, to eliminate the threat that the

sovereign, prosperous Libya posed to Western India.

and the dangerous example that the country's revolutionary leadership was setting

for the rest of Africa.

NATO would have the world believe it wanted to save Libyans in 2011.

But how does destroying the water supply of over 70 of a

country's population save this population exactly?

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