Chapter 1225 Immigration from the Kurdistan Region
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 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 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 you brought all the people's belongings? 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, Talolin 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."
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." Herage 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 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 and 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, 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 is unnecessary, that's very one-sided. Only when the water area is large can the climate be adjusted and precipitation increased. Although we usually have good weather here, it doesn't mean we can sit back and relax. I remember that in 1886, we encountered a severe drought here. "
"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 is a place with relatively little precipitation."
"Especially in the western part of the Great Rift Valley, just across the mountains from us, there is a very dry place in the country. You should know in Dodoma, the precipitation is only half of what we have here."
After a lot of reasoning, the village chief Herage successfully convinced Liu Hande, but it was obvious that his understanding was not 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 against this background. If East Africa does not start this project at this time, it will be too late to carry it out 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 chapter)