Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Desert Sitting on Top of the Water Mine
"Boss, it's the end of July, it's about to be the beginning of August, and the rainy season is over in two months, is it too late to plant trees?"
Looking at the truckload of tens of thousands of saplings, Azak was a little apprehensive, according to the farm's plan, planting trees at the beginning of the rainy season, just to ensure that the saplings can grow quickly during this period of the rainy season, and when the rainy season is over, their root system is basically very perfect, so they can basically survive the dry season for six or seven months. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
But it's the end of July, and when they are planted, these seedlings only have a little more than two months to grow, and once the rainy season is over, and when the dry season arrives, and their roots have not grown, it will be a little difficult to get through the dry season first.
Lin Quan was full of spirits, very confident in these saplings, joking, if these saplings were not planted, a series of benefits from Steiger's side would not be available, and there was a clear difference between the rainy season and the dry season, in fact, it was like that!
The difference is really not big, anyway, this is a desert area, the rainfall in the rainy season is less than 100 mm, from April to now, in more than three months, they have only had three rains here, and only one in a month, so if it is all rain, then there is no need to plant trees in the desert.
Anyway, there is abundant groundwater underground, and North Africa was originally an ocean, but due to the decrease in the temperature of the earth, the sea level at the poles froze, and the sea level retreated before it became land.
But underneath this desert, there is still an abundance of water resources, how abundant are the water resources? For example, Niger's northern neighbor Libya has discovered more groundwater in its southern region than the entire Nile River has flowed in 200 years, and the Sahara is not empty, but it is just underground.
Some people speculate that the QH lake was called the West Sea in the past, the main reason is that the area of the QH lake is much larger than it is now, and when the Himalayas have not yet been formed, it is very likely that it is really an ocean, until the Eurasian plate and the Indian Ocean plate overlap here, and the overlapping parts on both sides will rise up and become a mountain range, and the previous ocean will gradually disappear, so in the XJQH area, groundwater is not scarce, As long as there is investment, there is actually a lot to be done in development.
The time is short, and he is not afraid, anyway, he has the artifact of ancient jade in his hand, and the workload of these 20,000 saplings is naturally much smaller than the previous 80,000 saplings, and it took three months to get 80,000 saplings before, so that all of them survived, and now it takes two months to get these 20,000 saplings, and the workload has been reduced a lot, so the 20,000 saplings must grow faster than the previous batch of saplings.
So he is confident that he can complete this task, no diamond diamond don't do porcelain work, he has sharp weapons in his hands, the stall can be spread out some, and there is no big relationship, anyway, the sales of the farm have basically been arranged, he has no scruples, although the variety of 20,000 trees will be busy for a while, but in the long run, this is definitely a great benefit to his own interests.
"It's in time, it's okay! After the rainy season is over, the groundwater will not run, the government promised to help us repair the reservoir, and also promised to open the canal for us next year, as long as the reservoir is repaired, before the Tailu River is cut off, the water will not be too big a problem this winter, the whole dry season, and as long as our reservoir has enough water, there will be no problem in raising fish and farming here in the future! ”
Lin Quan already has a blueprint in his heart, after his 100,000 saplings are planted, the desert oasis here will be able to lay a good foundation thoroughly, and then build a large reservoir in the middle, the land in the middle will be affected by the wind and sand will become smaller, he will make some more river mud from the riverbed of the Tailu River, and lay a layer on the sandy ground, you can basically plant some other things, grow vegetables, plant some ornamental plants.
"Boss, although there is a lot of water in the reservoir, there is less rain in the desert, and the water in the reservoir can't last long, just like the water of the Tailu River, as soon as the rainy season passes, they will dry up, so why bother to repair this reservoir? It's better to dig more wells! ”
Azak is a local, there are no large reservoirs in the north of Niger, because the surface water here evaporates too quickly, so these reservoirs are useless, and they will dry up after a short time after repairing, and the people who live here like to dig more wells, dig deeper wells, so that even in a severe drought year, it will not run out of water, so they have no idea about reservoirs.
The famous reservoir in North Africa is actually in neighboring Libya, and the Agadabia reservoir was built with a huge investment of 30 billion US dollars when the poisoner Gaddafi was alive.
Libya borders Niger in the south in the south, and the northern and southern regions of both countries contain abundant groundwater, while 95% of Libya is desert, and there is a serious shortage of water in the north near the sea, but they are very rich in oil, so many large sweat desalination plants have been built near the sea.
Seawater desalination can make fresh water, but the cost is very high, a cubic meter of water (one ton), at least 8 liters of oil need to be consumed, so converted, the cost of a ton of water is as high as more than 40 yuan, think about it, how high is this cost? A ton of water used by domestic residents is only 1.8-2.3 yuan, and the price of industrial water is slightly more expensive, but it has not increased by 20 times!
So the Libyans, who did not want to continue like this, invested 30 billion US dollars under the leadership of the poisoner Gaddafi, and built a canal (not a traditional canal, but a pipe, with a diameter of 4 meters) from under the mountains in the south to operate the groundwater, divert water from the south to the north, and support the economic and agricultural towns in the north, the investment cost is 30 billion US dollars, and after the construction of this large artificial river, many reservoirs have been built in various places to store water to support local domestic and industrial water.
Libya has money, it is a country sitting on oil barrels, and although it hurts to come out with 30 billion US dollars, it does not hurt the muscles and bones, but for neighboring Niger, even if you sell the whole country, you can't take out 30 billion US dollars, so you can only envy such a thing.
In fact, in the south, when it was still a French colony, a lot of reservoirs were built near the capital Niamey, but then no one took care of it, most of them were abandoned, and the water of a city depends on the Niger River, but because the planning of the city is not very reasonable, the place is too large, and there is no money for infrastructure construction, so Niamey looks very large, but it does not live many people, and more than one million people have reached the limit.