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| Libyan Sahara. Source: Wikimedia Commons. |
By Gundhramns Hammer
March 17, 2015
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Some men dream big. The bigger the better. And if they have tonnes of money they will do their best to make their big dreams come true even bigger than what they have dreamed.
One such man´s big dream was to use the Aral Sea for giant agricultural projects, chiefly cotton fields, in the Soviet Union. They did it alright.
But they also fucked up the water body. They turned it into a fucking disaster.
"The Aral Sea is one of the worst ecological disasters on our planet. What was once the world’s 4th largest inland sea, the Aral Sea has lost over 60% of its surface area, 2/3 of its volume, declined 40 m in depth, and has fallen to the eighth largest inland body of water in the world" (Guy Fipps, Texas A&M University).
So what was once a beautiful inland sea was turned into an inhospitable desert.
On the opposite end, we have the late Muammar Gaddafi´s dream of tapping the vast underground freshwater reservoir located under the Sahara desert in southern Libya.
Some experts say that such a humongous project will dry up the Saharan oases, thus making more desertic what already is Earth´s biggest desert.
The underground water table is already dropping drastically, according to some scientists and the local people that use wells or farm in oases to survive in the desert.
If there are no oases in the Sahara desert:
Only God knows.
No one thought of this when the engineers planned this "wonderful" project, the famous "Man-made River" in Libya (Fig. 1).
Besides, most people are so blind that they do not give a fuck about these isssues unless Nature throws their own crap on their faces.
It looked good on the drawing board and off they went on this insanity which at the time looked like sanity in order to give herds of urban human cattle on the Mediterranean coast a chance to waste water in fancy bathtubs, build attractive water fountains in the cities to get locals and tourists out of their own fucking insanity and ship freshwater from Libya to Europe like some fucking big dreamers are already doing in upper North America with the Great Lakes.
We wonder whether the recent Libyan "civil war" (the "Libyan Crisis") to topple Gaddafi´s regime was more about the "Blue Gold" buried under the Sahara sands rather than getting his oil and stashed money.
Gaddafi sunk over US$64 billions on this "Man-made River Project" to the delight of all of the multinationals that were and still are chupacabring this giant baby.
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Some men dream big. The bigger the better. And if they have tonnes of money they will do their best to make their big dreams come true even bigger than what they have dreamed.
One such man´s big dream was to use the Aral Sea for giant agricultural projects, chiefly cotton fields, in the Soviet Union. They did it alright.
But they also fucked up the water body. They turned it into a fucking disaster.
"The Aral Sea is one of the worst ecological disasters on our planet. What was once the world’s 4th largest inland sea, the Aral Sea has lost over 60% of its surface area, 2/3 of its volume, declined 40 m in depth, and has fallen to the eighth largest inland body of water in the world" (Guy Fipps, Texas A&M University).
So what was once a beautiful inland sea was turned into an inhospitable desert.
On the opposite end, we have the late Muammar Gaddafi´s dream of tapping the vast underground freshwater reservoir located under the Sahara desert in southern Libya.
Some experts say that such a humongous project will dry up the Saharan oases, thus making more desertic what already is Earth´s biggest desert.
The underground water table is already dropping drastically, according to some scientists and the local people that use wells or farm in oases to survive in the desert.
If there are no oases in the Sahara desert:
- What will happen to the migratory birds that rely on the Saharan oases to take a break and get something to eat on their trip across the desert to reach tropical Africa?
- What will happen to the plant and animal communities unique to the Saharan oases?
- What will happen to the human communities including the nomads that depend on the this underground Saharan aquifer?
Only God knows.
No one thought of this when the engineers planned this "wonderful" project, the famous "Man-made River" in Libya (Fig. 1).
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| Figure 1. Libya´s Man-made River Project. Source: galenfrysinger.com. |
Besides, most people are so blind that they do not give a fuck about these isssues unless Nature throws their own crap on their faces.
It looked good on the drawing board and off they went on this insanity which at the time looked like sanity in order to give herds of urban human cattle on the Mediterranean coast a chance to waste water in fancy bathtubs, build attractive water fountains in the cities to get locals and tourists out of their own fucking insanity and ship freshwater from Libya to Europe like some fucking big dreamers are already doing in upper North America with the Great Lakes.
We wonder whether the recent Libyan "civil war" (the "Libyan Crisis") to topple Gaddafi´s regime was more about the "Blue Gold" buried under the Sahara sands rather than getting his oil and stashed money.
Gaddafi sunk over US$64 billions on this "Man-made River Project" to the delight of all of the multinationals that were and still are chupacabring this giant baby.
And this baby ain´t completed yet!
What´s finished - the projected 4.500 km river ot tubes in the desert (Fig. 2) - is already leaking and the artificial lakes built to contain the Saharan fossil water near the cities are already losing millions of gallons daily through evaporation.
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| Figure 1. Libya´s river of tubes. Source: Systech. |
Don´t you think, mon Capitaine, somehow that´s a waste?
Oui, mon ami. But such is man´s insanity.
This and more you can watch on the following documentary (Videos 1-2, English & Español). The filming crew will take you on a fascinating trip in the Libyan Sahara. Without leaving your own fucking den, you will get to see devils chasing wildlife and other creatures painted on the rocks by people long gone, how callous men hot brand a poor dromedary and of course, a close view of Gaddafi´s man-made river. All in one shot. Bon watching!
Source: The Secrets of Nature.
"Bahr Belá Má", "Waterless Sea", as the Sahara is called by the
Bedouins. But deep beneath the dune fields and stone deserts expands an
immeasurable reservoir of water resources. Using enormous technical
resources, the Libyans have begun to extract fossil reserves of
groundwater. Following oil, water is now arousing a new wave of
euphoria. In the present desert climate, reserves are only being
partally replaced and what has collected over a period of millions of
years may be used up in only a few decades.
English
Video 1. Libyan Sahara: Water from the desert.
Español
Video 2. Sahara libio: agua del desierto.
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