{"id":297,"date":"2021-07-17T19:43:36","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T19:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/?p=297"},"modified":"2021-07-17T19:43:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T19:43:36","slug":"the-great-man-made-river-of-libya-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"The Great Man-Made River of Libya 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is a\nstory of Primary Water and Why We are NOT Running Out of Water – <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Water is a\nRenewable.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bankers\nand Controllers DO NOT Want YOU to Know the TRUTH About Water.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please –\nLearn What Water Really Is and Where Water Really Comes From  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HINT:\n Water \u201cOriginates” from Down Below Earth’s Mantel and is NOT\nFrom Rain and Snow Melt.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn More:\nGo to StopTheCrime.net<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

to the video\nchannel where there are many water interviews<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

and go\nto <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PrimaryWater.org<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back in 1991, at\nthe opening of the first phase of the project, Muammar Gaddafi had\nprophetically said about the largest civil engineering venture in the world:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfter this\nachievement, American threats against Libya will double. The United States will\nmake excuses, but the real reason is to stop this achievement, to keep the\npeople of Libya oppressed.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now adding to what Muammar Gaddafi foresaw the truth of\nprimary water as a renewable and available EVERYWHERE was to be suppressed at\nALL costs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

No one was to learn the Earth is the Water Planet and\nWe Are NOT Running Out of Water. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

WE MUST ALL EXPOSE THE TRUTH ABOUT PRIMARY WATER<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the biggest development projects that Libya\u2019s\nmurdered ex-president Muammar Gaddafi undertook during his forty-two-year rule\nwas the Great Man-Made River. Gaddafi\u2019s dream was to provide fresh water for\neveryone, and to turn the desert green, making Libya self-sufficient in food\nproduction. To make this dream a reality, Gaddafi commissioned a massive\nengineering project consisting of a network of underground pipes that would\nbring fresh clean water from from down below Earth\u2019s mantel known as Primary\nWater.  Down below the Sahara Desert Primary Water was accessed for the\nmany suffering from drought.  Gaddafi called it the \u201cEighth Wonder of the\nWorld\u201d. The western media rarely mentioned it, and whenever it did, it was\ndismissed as a \u201cvanity project\u201d calling it “Gaddafi’s Pet Project”\nand \u201cthe pipe dream of a mad dog\u201d. But truth is, the Great Man-Made River\nProject is a fantastic water delivery system that has changed lives of Libyans\nall across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Libya is one of the sunniest and driest countries in the world. There are places where decades may pass without seeing any rainfall at all, and even in the highlands rainfall seldom happens, like once every 5 to 10 years. Less than 5% of the country receives enough rainfall for settled agriculture. Much of Libya\u2019s water supply used to come from desalination plants on the coast, which were expensive and therefore used only for domestic purposes. Little was left for irrigating the land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1953, while searching for new oilfields in southern Libya, vast quantities of ancient water aquifers were discovered. The exploration team discovered four huge basins with estimated capacities of each ranging between 4,800 and 20,000 cubic km. Most of this water was collected between 38,000 and 14,000 years ago, before the end of the last ice age, when the Saharan region enjoyed a temperate climate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Gaddafi and the Free Unitary Officers seized power in a bloodless coup in 1969, the new government immediately nationalized the oil companies and started using the revenues from oil to set up hundreds of bore wells to bring fresh water from the desert aquifers. Initially, Gaddafi planned to set up large-scale agricultural projects in the desert where the water was found, but when the people displayed reluctance to move, he conceived a plan to bring the water to the people instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Schematic drawing of the project. <\/em>Photo credit<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In August 1984, Muammar Gaddafi laid the foundation stone for the pipe production plant at Brega, and the Great Man-Made River Project began. Around 1,300 wells were dug into the desert soil, some up to 500 meters deep, to pump water from the subterranean water reserve. The pumped water is then distributed to 6.5 million people living in the cities of Tripoli, Benghazi, Sirte and elsewhere through a network of underground pipes 2,800 km long. When the fifth and final phase of the project is complete, the network will have 4,000 km length of pipes that will enable 155,000 hectares of land to be cultivated. Even with the last two phases yet to complete, the Great Man-Made River is the world\u2019s largest irrigation project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pipeline first reached Tripoli in 1996, at the completion of the first phase of the project. Adam Kuwairi, a senior figure in the Great Man-Made River Authority (GMRA), vividly remembers the impact the fresh water had on him and his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe water changed lives. For the first time in our history, there was water in the tap for washing, shaving and showering,\u201d he told BBC. \u201cThe quality of life is better now, and it\u2019s impacting on the whole country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project was so well recognized internationally that in 1999, UNESCO accepted Libya\u2019s offer to fund the Great Man-Made River International Water Prize, an award that rewards remarkable scientific research work on water usage in arid areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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US citizens protesting against US military action in Libya in Minneapolis, on March 21, 2011. <\/em>Photo credit<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In July 2011, NATO bombed the Great Man-Made River water supply pipeline near Brega including a factory that produces the pipes, claiming that the factory was used as \u201ca military storage facility\u201d and that \u201crockets were launched from there\u201d. NATO\u2019s attack on the pipeline disrupted water supply for 70% of the population who depended on the piped supply for personal use and for irrigation. The country now reeling under civil war, the future of the Great Man-Made River Project is in jeopardy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back in 1991, at the opening of the first phase of the project, Muammar Gaddafi had prophetically said about the largest civil engineering venture in the world:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfter this achievement, American threats against Libya will double. The United States will make excuses, but the real reason is to stop this achievement, to keep the people of Libya oppressed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fleet of more than one hundred transporters has altogether travelled a distance equal to the distance between the Earth and Sun. Photo credit<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Transport of pipe segments. Photo credit<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Work on trench digging for waterpipe. Photo credit<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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