Chapter 1226 The world’s largest artificial reservoir
In fact, saying that Gezira City and Juba are big cities somewhat exaggerates the economic status of these two regions in East Africa. In the Nile Basin, Gezira City and Juba City rank first and second respectively, but Looking at the whole of East Africa, the two cities can be regarded as medium-sized cities at best.
East Africa's development efforts in the Nile Basin are not strong. Take agriculture as an example. Agricultural development in the Nile Basin is not even as high as in several provinces in 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, which is close to the two places, is completely different. Not only does its grain production rank first in East Africa, but its population and economy are also at the forefront. The main problem faced by the Great Lakes Region is low per capita income, and this It is closely related to the relative lack of local industry.
East Africa's investment in the Great Lakes Region used to be concentrated in the agricultural sector, while industrial development naturally lagged behind. This was just a policy factor, and now the proposal of the Great Lakes Economic Belt is to loosen the constraints on industrial development in the Great Lakes Region to a certain extent.
As for the negative impact of local industrial development on agriculture, it is nothing more than labor force and cultivated land protection. After the free market is liberalized in East Africa, even if the economy of the Great Lakes region is not developed, the population will still flow into other regions, and cultivated land protection is of great significance to the current situation. It’s too early for East Africa.
At present, the population of East Africa is more than 100 million, and the population density is only at the middle level among the major powers. Moreover, according to Ernst’s experience, based on the current level of urbanization in East Africa, as well as the education penetration rate and other factors, East Africa should be careful. Declining fertility rates in a few decades.
However, Ernst is obviously not too worried about this issue. After all, East Africa still has the identity of an immigrant country, and Ernst and the East African government are currently actively grabbing colonies overseas and around the mainland. These colonies themselves will serve as population petri dishes in the future. role.
Moreover, in a short period of time, the population of East Africa is in the stage of population explosion experienced by early industrialized countries. By the 1930s and 1940s, the population base of East Africa should also be quite considerable.
The topic returns to immigration in the Kurdish area. This time, the final destination of the villagers of Yabulun Village is the town of Anton Leo in the northwest, which is less than ten kilometers away from Zinga City.
"Ahead of us is Anton Leo Town, the destination of our journey. I think you should be familiar with this place. The government has newly planned a piece of land in Anton Leo Town. I heard that it will be built into Tianjin The new district of Zinga City means that you will most likely become citizens of Zinga City in the future," Talorin said, pointing to Anton Leo Town, which is under construction.
I saw that a lot of new housing has been built in Anton Leo Town, and judging from the specifications, it should be constructed in accordance with urban standards.
This is easy to distinguish. Although housing in rural areas of East Africa has developed well in recent years, the gap between it and cities is still quite obvious.
The first is height. In rural areas of East Africa, there are basically few buildings with more than one storey. In Anton Leo Town, you can see that most of the houses are three-storey, and some even reach four storeys.
This is a more reasonable number of floors design, because according to official statistics in East Africa, most people generally don’t feel tired until they reach the fifth floor, and the fourth floor is like a dividing line. It is just the right number to reach this floor.
Therefore, most of the current urban residences in East Africa are three or four storeys, and there are also taller buildings. After all, after the market is liberalized, housing construction standards will naturally take into account market factors, and more residential buildings with other floors are beginning to appear in East Africa. .
The resettlement houses in the reservoir area built in Anton Leo Town are obviously still built in accordance with the old East African standards and were completed by the municipal engineering team of Zinga 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.
Under the leadership of a town government staff member, everyone soon arrived at a row of houses that had just been completed.
"Currently, the resettlement community has been officially connected to water and electricity. Each household can be assigned a house, including three bedrooms, one kitchen and one bathroom. The community is equipped with garbage bins. All garbage must be placed in designated locations. I miss you on this. The same should be true in rural areas, so I won’t go into detail about it, flower beds and green belts...” Following the introduction by the town government staff, it can be seen that this place is completely built according to the standards of East African cities, and the basic living facilities are not bad.
"As for the work issue, because only part of the farmland in your village belongs to the flooded area, and other land has been merged into Luotian Village under Anton Lao Town, your work has also been merged into the original Anton Lao Town state-owned farm, and a small part Then we will arrange to work in the urban area of Zinga City. The buses from our place to the urban area are already open, so there is no need to worry about traffic problems.”
Obviously, the preliminary work for this resettlement has been arranged long ago, and the development did not start after the economic development strategy along the lake was proposed.
In fact, as early as the beginning of this century, Ernst envisioned the construction of the Xingguo Reservoir. The so-called Xingguo Reservoir was also the Owen Reservoir in its previous life.
The Owen Reservoir was built on Lake Victoria. With this advantage, the Owen Reservoir became the largest artificial reservoir in the world. 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.
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