Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar Al-Gaddafi, whose full name is Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar Al-Gaddafi, was a powerful politician and political theorist.
Libya’s Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has been Africa’s and the Arab world’s longest-ruling, most erratic, most grimly fascinating leader – presiding for 42 years over this desert republic with vast oil reserves and just 6 million people.
The Great Man-Made River was built under the leadership of the late Libyan president Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. The construction work of the project was divided into five phases. All the five phases required a total of about 425 million cubic metres.
The Great Man-Made River is a network of pipes that is bringing high-quality fresh water from ancient underground aquifers deep in the Sahara to the coast of Libya for domestic use, agriculture, and industry, and it is the world’s largest irrigation project.
The GMR has been described as the largest irrigation project in the world. Indeed, the Libyan government proudly proclaimed it “the Eighth Wonder of the World.”Since 1991 the project has supplied much-needed irrigation and drinking water to populous cities and farming areas in Libya’s north, which previously were dependent on desalination plants and on declining rain-fed aquifers near the coast.
Libya’s Great Man-Made River (GMMR) currently transports almost 2.5 million cubic metres of water daily.
More than 95% of Libya is covered by desert, making it one of the world’s driest countries. There is an enormous lake beneath the sand, however. Muammar Gaddafi established the GMR in five stages using oil revenue to fund each level.
Only transitory wadis can be found in the Libyan desert, which lacks permanent rivers. That’s why the country built the Great Man-Made River—largest Libya’s “artificial river”—to deliver potable water to 90% of the population.
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