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The great man-made river:

A large industrial project, through which groundwater is transported from the desert through pipes to the coast in Libya.

The Great Man-Made River Project, the largest water transport project in the world known to man so far, was established by Muammar Gaddafi and directed the Libyans to adopt it on October 3, 1983, when the basic popular conferences were held to discuss it and approved the start of its implementation to save the people and the country from an imminent disaster of thirst. Colonel  Muammar Gaddafi laid the foundation stone to begin implementing the Great Man-Made River Project in the Sarir area in the city of Gallo on August 28, 1984.

Project diagram.

 Drilling operations in 1988.

 tubes

 lever

Two crawler cranes:

Technical, economic and social studies have shown the possibility of transporting these huge quantities of groundwater to areas where there are fertile agricultural lands, high population density and agricultural infrastructure, where about 6.5 million cubic meters of fresh water will be transported daily for agricultural, industrial and drinking water purposes. More than 75% of it has been allocated for agricultural purposes, which in turn will reduce the burden of the increasing withdrawal from groundwater in the coastal areas.

The project is based on transporting fresh water through huge pipes buried in the ground[?], each of which has a diameter of four meters and a length of seven metres, forming a total artificial river with a length exceeding four thousand kilometers in its first stages, extending from the well fields of the Kufra and Sarir oases in the southeast. And the well fields of the Fezzan Basin and Jabal Al-Hasawneh in the southwest, until it reaches all the cities where the population is concentrated in the north. In the future, the river will be fed by two other tributaries, the first coming from the Ghadames Oasis and the other from the Jaghbub Oasis, and studies are currently being conducted to feed the river from some rivers of the African continent. The water of the branch of the river coming from the oases of Kufra and Sarir when it reaches the north is collected in five artificial suspended lakes, the smallest of which has a capacity of four million cubic metres, and the largest of which has a capacity of four times this volume and is filled with water throughout the year. The project aims primarily to provide drinking water to the population and establish agricultural settlement and production projects. 

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