Libya - Great Man Made River Project

[jakeXT]

Run time: 04:25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qogT-DDKHgQ   Posted on YouTube: July 26, 2009 By YouTube Member: Editorpurenews Views on YouTube: 13305   Posted on DU: April 13, 2011 By DU Member: jakeXT Views on DU: 536

 




The Great Man-Made River (GMR, النهر الصناعي العظيم) is a network of pipes that supplies water to the Sahara Desert in Libya, from the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System fossil aquifer. It is the world's largest irrigation project.<1>

According to its website, it is the largest underground network of pipes and aqueducts in the world. It consists of more than 1,300 wells, most more than 500 m deep, and supplies 6,500,000 m3 of fresh water per day to the cities of Tripoli, Benghazi, Sirt and elsewhere. Muammar al-Gaddafi has described it as the "Eighth Wonder of the World."<2>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Manmade_River