Chapter 1226 The world's largest artificial reservoir

In fact, saying that Gezira and Juba are big cities is a bit of an exaggeration of the economic status of these two regions in East Africa. Gezira and Juba are ranked first and second respectively in the Nile Basin, but looking at the whole of East Africa, the two cities are at most medium-sized cities.

East Africa's development of the Nile Basin is not strong. Take agriculture as an example. The agricultural development in the Nile Basin is not even as good as that in several provinces of the Azande Plateau, and the Azande Plateau itself is considered a relatively backward region in East Africa.

On the other hand, the Great Lakes region next to the two places is completely different. Not only does its grain output rank first in East Africa, but its population and economy are also at the forefront. The main problem facing the Great Lakes region is its low per capita income, which is closely related to the relative lack of local industry.

In the past, East Africa's investment in the Great Lakes region was concentrated in the agricultural field, and industrial development was naturally very backward. This was only a policy factor. Now the Great Lakes Economic Belt is proposed to loosen up the industrial development of the Great Lakes region to a certain extent.

As for the negative impact of local industrial development on agriculture, it is minimal, nothing more than the two aspects of labor and farmland protection. After the free market is opened in East Africa, even if the Great Lakes region economy is not developed, the population will flow into other regions, and it is too early for farmland protection in East Africa now.

At present, the population of East Africa is just over 100 million, and the population density ranks in the middle among the powerful countries. Moreover, according to Ernst's experience, according to the current urbanization level in East Africa and factors such as the education penetration rate, East Africa should be careful about the decline in fertility in a few decades.

However, Ernst is obviously not too worried about this problem. After all, East Africa still has the identity of an immigrant country, and the colonies that Ernst and the East African government are actively snatching overseas and around the mainland will play the role of population culture dishes in the future.

Moreover, in the short term, the population of East Africa is in the stage of population explosion experienced by early industrialized countries. By the 30s and 40s of this century, the population base of East Africa should also be considerable.

The topic returned to the migration of the reservoir area. The final destination of the villagers of Yabulun Village this time was the town of Andong Leo in the northwest, which is less than ten kilometers away from Jinga City.

"In front is the town of Andong Leo, the destination of our journey. I think you should be familiar with it. The government has newly planned a piece of land in Andong Leo Town. I heard that it will be built into a new district of Jinga City. In other words, you will most likely become citizens of Jinga City in the future." Talolin pointed to the town of Andong Leo, which was under construction.

I saw that many new houses had been built in Andong Leo Town, and from the specifications, they should be constructed according to urban standards.

This is easy to identify. Although the housing in rural areas of East Africa has developed well in recent years, the gap with cities is still quite obvious.

The first is the height. In rural areas of East Africa, there are basically few buildings with more than one floor, while in Andong Leo Town, most of the houses are three-story houses, and some even reach four floors.

This is a more reasonable design of the number of floors, because according to official statistics in East Africa, most people usually feel tired only when they reach the fifth floor, and the fourth floor is like a dividing line, and it is just right to reach this floor.

Therefore, at present, most urban residences in East Africa are three-story or four-story, and there are also higher buildings. After all, after the market is liberalized, housing construction standards must naturally consider market factors, and more residential buildings with other floors have begun to appear in East Africa.

The resettlement houses for reservoir area immigrants built in Andong Leo Town are obviously still built according to the old standards of East Africa, and are completed by the municipal engineering team of Jinga City in East Africa.

At present, there are still a large number of construction teams of state-owned enterprises in East Africa. This is a product of the planned economy era and cannot be replaced in a short time.

Soon, under the command of Captain Tarolin and Mayor Makin, the convoy stopped in the center of Andong Leo Town, and after counting and verifying the personnel, they began to arrange housing for reservoir area immigrants.

Under the leadership of a town government staff member, everyone soon came to a row of houses that had just been completed.

"At present, the resettlement community has officially been connected to water and electricity. Each household can be allocated a house, including three bedrooms, one kitchen and one bathroom. The community is equipped with trash cans. All garbage must be placed in designated locations. I think you should also do this in rural areas, so I won't introduce it in detail. Flower beds and green belts..."    With the introduction of the town government staff, it can be seen that this place is built completely according to the standards of East African cities, and the basic living facilities are not bad.

"As for the work problem, because only part of the farmland in your village belongs to the flooded area, the other land has now been incorporated into Luotian Village under Andong Leo Town, and your work will be transferred to the original Andong Leo Town State Farm. A small number of people will be arranged to work in the urban area of ​​​​Zinga City. The bus from here to the urban area has been opened, so there is no need to worry about traffic problems."

Obviously, the preliminary work of this immigration and resettlement has been arranged in place long ago, and it was not because the development of the economic development strategy along the lake was proposed.

In fact, as early as the beginning of this century, Ernst had anticipated the construction of the Xingguo Reservoir. The so-called Xingguo Reservoir is the Owen Reservoir in the previous life.

The Owen Reservoir was built on the basis of Lake Victoria. Relying on this advantage, the Owen Reservoir has become the world's largest artificial reservoir. Of course, many people do not regard the Owen Reservoir as a normal artificial reservoir. After all, it is integrated with Lake Victoria.

As Lake Victoria is the second largest freshwater lake in the world with a water area of ​​tens of thousands of kilometers, it is indeed a bit self-deceiving to build a dam and turn it into an artificial reservoir. After all, the height of the Owen Reservoir dam is only more than 30 meters.

Of course, the completion of the Owen Reservoir has indeed raised the water level of Lake Victoria. If the original water volume of Lake Victoria is removed, the newly added capacity can reach more than 200 billion cubic meters.

The Xingguo Dam built in East Africa is a "pirated version" of the previous Irving Reservoir Dam, and the Xingguo Reservoir is also a "pirated version" of the Irving Reservoir.

What is the concept of this extra 200 billion cubic meters of water, which is almost equivalent to the storage capacity of five Three Gorges reservoirs.

However, because the Xingguo Reservoir is built on the Great Lake (Lake Victoria), which is already large in area, the effect after the water volume is shared is not as significant as that of the Three Gorges Reservoir.

After all, in order to free up space for the Three Gorges, there were more than 1.3 million immigrants from the Far Eastern Empire in the previous life, but the current number of immigrants in the Kurdistan Region in East Africa is less than 40,000.

Take the relocated Yabulun village as an example. The main reason why the entire village was moved was because the village was too close to the lake and was in a low-lying area. It is a relatively typical case, but it is by no means a common case.

Most of the villages along the Great Lakes will only flood some land, which may not even be cultivated land, and the impact will be completely negligible.

This is also easy to understand. After the completion of the Three Gorges, the water level in the upstream was raised by more than a hundred meters, while the Xingguo Reservoir only raised the water level of the original Great Lakes by nearly three meters. The Great Lakes area is originally similar to a basin topography, and the Great Lakes is the topography of this basin. lowest, and based on the topography of the lake, that's why the northeastern shore of the Great Lakes is most susceptible.

In fact, it can be seen from the outlet of the Great Lakes Region, that is, the Nile River, that the overall terrain of the entire Great Lakes Region is relatively low in the northeast. Otherwise, Lake Victoria would not be one of the sources of the Nile River.

Of course, even so, the construction of the Xingguo Reservoir is definitely a large-scale project in East Africa. After all, it is the largest artificial reservoir in the world. Therefore, as early as 1905, Ernst began to guide the East African water conservancy department. According to the characteristics of Lake Victoria and the Nile River , build Xingguo Reservoir.

During the Third Five-Year Plan period, East Africa officially started the preliminary work for the construction of the Xingguo Reservoir, including the construction of new embankments, construction of resettlement sites, hydrological observation stations, and a series of other tasks.