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subdue nature,and divert the shabeele and jubba rivers to irrigate the arid central,east,and north and turn it into fertile gareen land

A chronic drought is ravaging farmland. The Gobi Desert is inching south. The Yellow River, the so-called birthplace of Chinese civilization, is so polluted it can no longer supply drinking water. The rapid growth of megacities — 22 million people in Beijing and 12 million in Tianjin alone — has drained underground aquifers that took millenniums to fill.

Not atypically, the Chinese government has a grand and expensive solution: Divert at least six trillion gallons of water each year hundreds of miles from the other great Chinese river, the Yangtze, to slake the thirst of the north China plain and its 440 million people.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/02/world ... ina&st=cse

look at how grandous this undertaking is,you gotta love the ambition of those yellow people

Its not we can do that is it

greenday wrote:Its not we can do that is it

an economically prosperous somalia(reads oild rich somalia)can indeed afford such a scheme that takes water say from jubba to the other side of the country and dumps it again in the Indian ocean which is where the Somali sea current starts anyways.it cant possibly cost us more than a deslination plant costs the mediterian and gulf countries,about 5 billions

It's a good idea but it wouldn't work in somalia's case for these two reasons:

1) It is far too costly and even if somalia was pumping oil the cost of that magnitude would be too much
2) The elevation of somalia wouldn't allow it; the two rivers (shabeele & juba) flow from the ethiopian highlands towards the lowlands of somalia and into the indian ocean.



For the river to be diverted northwards the topography would need to be similar to that of the south, however the north has a higher elevation and therefore the rivers couldn't flow upwards. Unless it was to be diverted from the source (which is in ethiopia and that poses another problem).

Cumar-Labasuul wrote:It's a good idea but it wouldn't work in somalia's case for these two reasons:

1) It is far too costly and even if somalia was pumping oil the cost of that magnitude would be too much
2) The elevation of somalia wouldn't allow it; the two rivers (shabeele & juba) flow from the ethiopian highlands towards the lowlands of somalia and into the indian ocean.



For the river to be diverted northwards the topography would need to be similar to that of the south, however the north has a higher elevation and therefore the rivers couldn't flow upwards. Unless it was to be diverted from the source (which is in ethiopia and that poses another problem).

co-signed

due the north located above see levels where some southern lands are below sea levels or very close 2 da sea levels

Cumar-Labasuul wrote:It's a good idea but it wouldn't work in somalia's case for these two reasons:

1) It is far too costly and even if somalia was pumping oil the cost of that magnitude would be too much
2) The elevation of somalia wouldn't allow it; the two rivers (shabeele & juba) flow from the ethiopian highlands towards the lowlands of somalia and into the indian ocean.

For the river to be diverted northwards the topography would need to be similar to that of the south, however the north has a higher elevation and therefore the rivers couldn't flow upwards. Unless it was to be diverted from the source (which is in ethiopia and that poses another problem).

not really,the technology to make grandiose irrigation canals have been around for centuries and the cost might be high but its economic benefits are far more lucrative and far more than meets the eye,such a canal can provide us with millions of hectares of arable lands that used to be a desert, and it can provide clean source of electricity to the major cities through dams .One example is the All American Canal, it irrigates over half a million hectares of what previously used to be semi desert land but now produces high quality crops. the canal also provides electricity to few cities through 5 hydroelectric dams,and mind u its a pretty old canal(built in 1928 ) and is only 80 miles long what
here is its pictures