Chapter 1225: Reservoir Area Immigrants

The status of the city of Gezira in East Africa is somewhat similar to the Ili Valley region of 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 rainfall 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 protracted resolution to resolve 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 Tarolin, all the villagers have arrived, is it time for the convoy to set off!" Ma Jin, the mayor of Weir Town in Zinga City, asked an East African officer.

Talorin 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."

Mayor Ma Jin 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 set off."

Mayor Ma Jin: "Okay, I'm going to talk to the village chief right now and make sure not even a pin falls here."

The East African National Defense Forces also participated in this immigration project. After all, the East African National Defense Forces have 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 increasingly positive.

Soon Mayor Makin came to the villagers. He called the mayor of Yabulun Village and gave him a few instructions. After the villagers of Yabulun Village confirmed again, Talorin gave the order to set off.

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 by then, 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 water 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 was submerged."

"On the contrary, the farmland by 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 huge. It turns out that there are many farmland and even roads next to the lakeshore. It may be affected to some extent.”

The Great Lake was Lake Victoria in its previous life. This large lake of tens of thousands of square kilometers is much larger than some countries. Therefore, the water level in the Great Lakes reservoir area will rise, and the area affected will be large. The entire southeastern coastal area of ​​the Great Lakes area will be affected. A certain degree of influence.

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." Herag said: "The government will definitely solve the problems you can think of. Can you imagine that the empire lacks such a little land? "

"The empire ranks second in the world in terms of area, only behind Tsarist Russia. It has a large number of undeveloped areas, including the Great Lakes region."

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 your whole 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 a thousand pieces of gold scattered but come 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, water is a problem. 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?"

Herage: "It seems that you didn't study geography carefully during compulsory education. Don't you know that the Great Lake is the main water source of the Nile River?"

"It can be said that most of the water in the Great Lakes eventually flows into the Nile River. If we don't intercept it, this water will be in vain for the Egyptians. Therefore, the main function of this reservoir is to retain the water in East Africa and then satisfy our agricultural and industrial water needs."

"Then the hydropower stations built just happened to deliver electricity to surrounding cities and villages. Now that electricity consumption continues to rise, the gap is getting bigger and bigger, so it is always right to build more hydropower stations and reservoirs."

"As for what you said about unnecessary actions, that is also one-sided. Only when the water area is large can the climate be adjusted and the precipitation be increased. Although we usually have good weather here, it does not mean that we can sit back and relax. I remember that we encountered a severe drought here in 1886."

"At that time, there was a lot of water in the Great Lakes region, but there were not many pumps and pumping stations, and our eastern part of the Great Lakes was originally a place with relatively little precipitation."

"Especially in the west of the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, where we are separated by mountains, it is a very dry place in the country. You should know that the precipitation in Dodoma is only half of ours."

After a long talk, the village chief Helag successfully convinced Liu Hande, but it is obvious that he did not know it very comprehensively.

This series of actions of East Africa in the Great Lakes region is actually related to the East African government's strategy of developing the coastal economic belt, and also involves the strategic security of water resources in East African countries.

Once the strategy of developing the coastal economic belt is launched, there is no turning back, so in order to launch the strategy of developing the coastal economic belt in the future, East Africa must first solve some local natural obstacles.

Including a series of important issues such as the ecology of the Great Lakes region, water resource utilization, construction and development of ports along the lake, cities and villages along the lake, roads, railways, agriculture, etc.

And 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 it out later.

This is like the construction of some large reservoirs in the Far East 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 construction of the Three Gorges Reservoir by the Far East Empire in the previous life still submerged two cities, eleven county towns, and more than 110 towns.

Now that the Great Lakes region is an agricultural production base in East Africa, urban development is relatively backward, and the loss of building the Xingguo Reservoir at this time will be smaller. If the local economy is really developed, the price to be paid will be too high.

Of course, if the local economy develops, East Africa is expected to directly 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 Dam are to ensure the safety of cities and agricultural areas in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. In contrast, 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.