Chapter 1225 Immigration from the Kurdistan Region
The status of the city of Gezira in East Africa is somewhat similar to that of the Ili Valley in the Far Eastern Empire. It is a rare livable area in the desert of northern East Africa.
The development model is similar to that of Egypt and Sudan. After all, everyone depends on the Nile River for food, and the Nile River is the only water supply for these three places.
Of course, when Sudan still occupied Darfur, there was some precipitation in Darfur, but now that Darfur has fallen into the hands of East Africa, precipitation in other areas of Sudan is almost negligible.
As for the southern region of Sudan, which had a relatively suitable climate in the previous life, it completely changed into the shape of East Africa decades ago.
East Africa's adoption of a drag-out solution to the Darfur issue is naturally the best way at this stage. This way, it can avoid escalating conflicts with the United Kingdom while actually occupying the Darfur region.
As for the future, Britain will have no chance to sow discord between Darfur and East Africa. After all, at that time, the indigenous people of Darfur were gone.
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Northern Great Lakes Province.
Zinga City, Yabulun Village.
The entire northeastern region of the Great Lakes Region has been busy with a major event recently, which is the resettlement of immigrants in the reservoir area.
It can be seen that many villages have been relocated as a whole, and Yabulun Village is also one of the villages that have been relocated overall. Vehicles arranged by the government are helping local villagers move their belongings.
"Captain Talolin, all the villagers have arrived, is it time for the convoy to set off!" Ma Jin, the mayor of Weir Town, Zinga City, asked an East African officer.
Tarolin said: "Have all the people's belongings been brought? This is a complete relocation. If there are any materials left behind, we will not come back to move them."
Ma Jin The mayor said: "Don't worry! The villagers don't have much belongings. It's impossible to leave any big belongings except the houses. Even the worthless things like swivel chairs and benches have been loaded into the car."
Talorin said: "It's better to let them think about it carefully. It's best to check it again. We are not in a hurry to leave."
Mayor Ma Jin: "Okay, I will go and talk to you right away." Tell the village chief that not even a pin will fall here."< br>
The East African National Defense Force also participated in this immigration project. After all, the East African National Defense Force has many tasks. Especially after East Africa transformed from a militaristic country to a normal country, the focus of military development has shifted, and the image of the military has become more and more... front.
Soon Mayor Ma Jin came to the villagers. He called the head of Yabulun Village and gave him a few instructions. Then, after the villagers of Yabulun Village confirmed again, Talorin issued the order. The order to depart.
A mighty motorcade officially set off from Yabulun Village to the national highway in East Africa.
The villagers sitting in the back carriage looked at their hometown that was slowly disappearing and began to communicate.
Liu Hande: "If I leave this time, I'm afraid I'll never see our village again. I heard that the entire lake will be flooded here, but I don't know if it's true."
Village chief Herage said: "Don't talk nonsense. According to water conservancy experts, except for some relatively low-lying places that may be completely submerged by the lake this time, most of them will rise by one or two meters at most. The altitude of our village , that is, about half of the body is submerged."
"On the contrary, the farmland near the lake will be greatly affected. After all, the lake is too big. Even if the water rises by one or two meters, the submerged area will be quite large. It’s huge. It turns out that there are a lot of farmland next to the lakeshore, and even the roads may be affected to a certain extent.”
The Great Lake was also Lake Victoria in the previous life. This large lake of tens of thousands of square kilometers is larger than some countries. It is much larger, so the water level in the Great Lakes reservoir area will rise, and the area affected will be large. The entire southeastern lake area of the Great Lakes area will be affected to a certain extent.
Liu Hande: "Village Chief, building this reservoir is not cost-effective at all! With so much cultivated land, we only need to replace it with a hydropower station. We are not very short of electricity in East Africa." Herage said: "The government will definitely solve the problems you can think of. Can you imagine that the empire lacks such a small amount of land? "
"The empire ranks second in the world in terms of area, only behind Tsarist Russia. There is a large number of undeveloped areas, and there is no shortage of land at all. This is the case around the lake area."
Liu Hande retorted: "The empire has a large land area, but the quality of the land here is the best in the country. I feel bad for it to be wasted like this."
Herrag: "You deserve to farm the land for the rest of your life. When the reservoir area is built, the empire can build more farmland. Our country is not short of land, but it is short of water! As long as the water resources are used more rationally, nothing will be lost now." It’s like losing money but coming back again.”
“We have abundant rainfall here, but across the country, water resources are relatively tight, especially in the south and north. In some places, draft is a problem, and we can only solve it. Only by solving the water problem can we better build the national economy.”
Liu Hande: "But what does this have to do with the construction of a reservoir here? Moreover, the Great Lake is originally a large natural reservoir. Isn't this unnecessary now."
Herage: "At first glance, you have no intention of being in compulsory education. If you study geography, don’t you know that the Great Lakes are the main water source of the Nile River?”
“It can be said that most of the water in the Great Lakes will eventually flow into the Nile River. If we don’t intercept it, this water will be in vain for the Egyptians, so this The main function of the reservoir is to retain water in East Africa, and then meet our agricultural and industrial water needs.”
“The hydropower stations built then just deliver electricity to surrounding cities and towns. Nowadays, electricity consumption continues to rise, and there is a gap. It’s getting bigger and bigger, so it’s always right to build more hydropower stations and reservoirs.”
“As for what you said is unnecessary, that’s very one-sided. Only when the water area is large can we regulate the climate and increase precipitation. Although we usually have good weather here. , but it doesn’t mean you can sit back and relax. I remember that we experienced a severe drought here in 1886.”
"At that time, there was a lot of water in the Great Lakes area, but there were not many water pumps and pumping stations, and the eastern part of the Great Lakes was a place with relatively low rainfall."
"Especially the western part of the Great Rift Valley in East Africa, and our Just across the mountain is a very dry place in the country. Dodoma, you should know, the precipitation is only half of what we have here.”
After some reasoning, the village chief Herage successfully persuaded. Liu Hande, but obviously his understanding was not very comprehensive.
This series of actions taken by East Africa in the Great Lakes region is actually related to the East African government’s development strategy for the economic belt along the lake, and it also involves the strategic security of water resources in East African countries.
Once the development strategy of the lakeside economic belt is launched, there is no turning back. Therefore, in order to launch the development strategy of the lakeside economic belt in the future, East Africa must first solve some local natural obstacles.
Including the ecology of the Great Lakes area, water resources utilization, construction and development of harbors along the lake, cities and villages along the lake, roads, railways, agriculture and a series of important issues.
The Xingguo Reservoir was proposed in this context. If East Africa does not start this project at this time, it will be too late to carry out it in the future.
This is like the construction of some large reservoirs in the Far Eastern Empire in the previous life. If the local area is not an economically backward area, but there are some large cities in the local area, then the population migration alone cannot be carried out smoothly.
Even so, the Three Gorges Reservoir built by the Far Eastern Empire in the previous life still flooded two cities, 11 counties, and more than 110 towns.
As the agricultural production base of East Africa, the Great Lakes region now lags behind in urban development. At this time, the losses from the construction of the Xingguo Reservoir will be smaller. If we really wait for the local economy to develop, the price to pay will be too high. .
Of course, if the local economy develops, East Africa will probably abandon the construction of the Xingguo Reservoir. After all, the downstream of the Xingguo Reservoir is not comparable to the downstream of the Three Gorges Reservoir.
Some important purposes of the construction of the Three Gorges Reservoir are to ensure the safety of cities and agricultural areas in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. On the other hand, in the lower reaches of the Great Lakes region, that is, along the Nile River, there are not many large cities except Gezira and Juba. .
(End of this chapter)