Libya borders the Sahara Desert. 80% of the land is desert. Only 10% of the land is such that people can live. Most part of Libya are places where not a drop of water has fallen for 20 years. When oil was discovered in the world, oil was discovered in nearly every country.

What was found instead of oil in Libya was astonishing. 500m down in the desert, a thick layer of water was found, its thickness was somewhere around 700m thick. According to experts, this is so much water that it can give water to Libya for 2-3 thousand years.Its importance can/

be understood for a country where 80% of the land is desert. But extracting this water, sending it to other parts was HUGE TASK. The money needed for this work in 1960 was $25 billion. From today's point of view,it will be above 100 billion dollars. Consideration on this project/

was abandoned. But when GADDAFI became president, they started this work. The West was opposed to GADDAFI. IMF, World Bank,none gave loan to Libya for this work.GADDAFI took this impossible project forward by making arrangements with their own nation. Engineers from South Korea/

helped in this. Later, UNESCO also trained engineers. Large pipes were built. So wide that the metro train passes.

The project was inaugurated by Gaddafi around August 1984. 500 meters deep, 1300 wells were constructed. Which used to carry water through a 4000km long pipeline.

So many dams were built that 12 Egyptian pyramids could be built. Even Astronauts in space could see the wells. $33 billion was spent by Gaddafi. It was the 8th wonder of the world. In 2008, the Guinness Book of Books included the project as the largest project ever.

People went crazy with joy when water reached the major Libyan cities of Tripoli, Bayanji. Irrigation started in 13 thousand hectares of land. But in 2011, America & NATO attacked Libya, spread propaganda against Gaddafi & dropped bombs on this project & more than 25% collapsed.[b][/b]

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And the people were happy then… until now that things went down before they regretted their actions.
Now, Libyans are back to square one.

If NATO and America were truly against this water project, why damage just a small portion of it?

Westerhoffe:
And the people were happy then… until now that things went down before they regretted their actions.
Now, Libyans are back to square one.

25% destruction cannot lead to back to square one.

CodeTemplar:
25% destruction cannot lead to back to square one.

Has it been fixed?
Is Libya same as it was during the days of Gaddafi?
How is their security?
Are the people happy now that he was ousted and killed?

CodeTemplar:
If NATO and America were truly against this water project, why damage just a small portion of it?

What has been damaged is enough to destroy the whole project. Just think...without a functioning government, the project wouldn't be maintained, it would be infested with germs, bacteria etc, facilities, equipments and machinery will not be maintained, the water body will be contaminated etc

In fact, it would have been better for the water body if it had not been worked on.

CodeTemplar:
25% destruction cannot lead to back to square one.

25%? Is that a joke
A country without head means everything will be gone.
leave your uncompleted building without roof for 5 years and see what will happen
The best country in Africa was level to nothing, that even Nigeria now looks better than Libya