Chapter 274: Finding Water
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Because the first line of defense is close to Niamey, the land here is not very short of water, and the first line of defense is relatively smooth in planting trees.
The Ministry of Agriculture of Niger has given Lin Quan nearly 500 workers, and according to the calculation of planting 50 trees per person per day, they can plant 25,000 trees in a day, which is already a very fast speed, and Lin Quan is satisfied with this speed.
However, considering the scale of Niamey, according to the standards of sand control, a sand control forest needs at least fifteen rows of trees, so on a land with a width of 15 kilometers, they need to plant at least 250,000 trees, which will take ten days, and considering watering, fertilization and maintenance, etc., this matter needs at least half a month!
Half a month passed very slowly, Lin Quan had to run a lot of places every day, tired like a dog every day, the ancient jade on his body could be used to improve water quality, so he needed to inspect the water intake points in every place, otherwise the trees would not get the buff of the buff if they were planted, in this way, their growth would become relatively slow, and they might not be able to survive.
After half a month has passed, the survival rate of the first batch of seedlings is not very high, without the help of growing ancient jade, even if they get enough water, the survival rate of this batch of plants is still relatively worrying.
Lin Quan didn't have any good way to deal with this, that ancient jade needed to stay in the farm and the ancient jade in his hand was actually enough, it might not be very critical on Niamey's side, but if it reached the middle of the desert, then this water jade would become a treasure, because the water problem that plagued them did not exist in front of this ancient jade.
A 60% survival rate means that at least 100,000 seedlings need to be replanted, and even after replanting, according to the current survival rate, there will be 40,000 seedlings to be replanted next time!
This is a very troublesome thing, Lin Quan's time is precious, he must not be able to waste time here, it took five days to replant the first batch of saplings, Lin Quan left 50 people to deal with the follow-up things, if the next batch of saplings needs to be replanted, they can do it slowly here, in short, all 250,000 saplings must be planted alive, these saplings are the first batch of saplings planted, and it is very critical to survive Diniame.
Lin Quan, on the other hand, drove north with the rest of the people, crossed the mountains north of Niamey, and came to the north of the mountain, ready to start planting trees here.
In order to protect their safety, the Nigerien government army also sent a squad of troops to protect them, these soldiers were very interesting, drove an armored car in the desert and wandered around, and ended up trapping themselves in the quicksand and couldn't get out, which is very funny!
"Everyone prepare a little rope, tie up the armored car, and then work together to pull it out!"
Is this called being a bad teacher?
Lin Quan looked at the armored car that was half-trapped, and he couldn't laugh or cry!
The Nigerien soldiers on the sidelines did not care, they did not do anything, they watched the workers shouting and shouting and working hard, and they were still talking and laughing, as if they were a bystander! Looking at them, it was as if it was not theirs who fell into the quicksand, and this armored car was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars or even millions of dollars, but it was not a joke.
"Mr. Lin, if there is quicksand in the desert, then there must be a water source nearby, we can go and see if we can find a water source, after all, the daily water consumption of hundreds of people is also very huge!"
Ackerman didn't care much about the military's armored vehicles, but he thought of another thing, that is, where quicksand appeared, it means that there is a flow underground, and this flow is basically groundwater, so where the quicksand appears, water sources can often be found.
"Well, okay, I'll send someone to look for it with you immediately, forget it, I'll go with you!"
Lin Quan was originally going to send someone to help Ackerman, but after thinking about it for a while, he found that he didn't have anything to do, so it would be better to just accompany them, and it would not be a long time anyway.
"One-two-three!"
At the sound of the workers' horns, the armored car, which weighed more than 5 tons, was finally pulled out, and dozens of workers were exhausted and out of breath.
And Lin Quan followed Ackerman and took a very long thing, this thing is used for drilling, but it is a manpower, and the inside is hollow, put it on the ground and fix it, and then use manpower to stir a thing next to it, you can let the iron core in it drill into the ground.
When the core is retracted, you can roughly judge the location, distance and depth of the groundwater by observing the water marks on the core.
Once they find the source of the groundwater, then tomorrow they can call in professional digging equipment, and then help them dig some wells out of the vicinity, these wells will become their source of drinking water, but if you want to plant trees, then you need to dig more wells, and then look at the storage of groundwater here, and then judge whether it is feasible to plant trees here, if the groundwater level is too deep, if the groundwater is too small, it is obviously not very reasonable to plant trees here.
Ackerman determined a position based on his own experience, and several workers threw off their arms and began to stir up, this work is not very simple, in fact, it still requires a lot of strength, you see how difficult it is to see how the professional drilling equipment is used to drill wells.
Several workers took turns to fight, and after a long time, they finished work, and by the water marks on the iron core, they roughly judged where the groundwater level of the place was.
"Gnier, get a ruler!"
Ake took a general look and judged that the groundwater level was about 18 to 20 meters, but it was better to measure this matter, because the more accurate the data, the more helpful it would be for Lin Quan's side.
"19.73 meters!
After Ackerman measured it, he reported an accurate data to Lin Quan.
Lin Quan was a little surprised, is it so deep?
He remembered that the groundwater level on his farm was about seven or eight meters, and after he used the water jade, the groundwater level had skyrocketed a lot, and it had reached a position close to three meters.