How Libya Built Brand-New Rivers Across the Sahara 

Yep, nothing to do with anyone else, it was all Nato...lol

@@LoremIpsum1970 It was NATO that bombed Libya

@@LoremIpsum1970 Corrected myself is it better now?

@@supersmellslikefeet destabilization of the Middle East was a planned military campaign.

Only France wanted gadaffi out. Gadaffi would suddenly take a drastic shift towards the West towards the end of his rule where he became cooperative with the Brits and Americans, and in return the US and UK encouraged oil company investment in Libya. MI6 even abducted two Libyan dissidents living abroad i believe in the 2000s and extradited them back to Libya with a note saying "thank you." The french threatend US they would get out of NATO if they didn't support them. Also Italy and Turkey was gainst intervening.

FA, I hope that better time of peace & prosperity comes for your country very soon. I really enjoyed watching this programme & I am happy that you have all these resources.

@@ellanola6284 Thank you Ella for your kind words

I don't know if this is the 8th wonder of the world or not. That term gets thrown around a lot. And the other 7 were arbitrarily choose by some dead guy a long time ago. What I know is this is definitely a wonder of the world. A magnificent, awe inspiring, and massive engineering project just like the wonders of old where in their times. And which of them can boast of getting huge quantities of fresh drinking water from one of the driest deserts in the world.

U people r yourself responsible for your condition

US and EU are directly responsible for destroying Lybia for that sweet sweet free oil

May Allah bless all of you, and you guys can build libya to its glory, despite the setback n interventions from the evil west.

@@SonGohanHeiji Thanks for this kind gesture❤

this is just out of curiosity on my part, i do not meant to offend or something, but how was Muammar Gaddafi as leader? was he really a bad man as the mainstream media portrayed him to be? it just makes me wonder, because every time the WEST tries to "FREE" countries from the authoritarian govt they had, the aftermath was always worse than what they used to be...

Nice to see other people from Benghazi, I live abroad now but I think about Libya everyday ❤

As a proud American, I truly apologize for Hillary Clinton and the CIA. If it was in my hands they would all be tried and prosecuted. Not only for Libya tbh.

Based

That's my one nitpick with this video. They knew about the water for centuries, but actually accessing & transporting it was basically unfeasible until an organized effort based on sheer necessity (due to high birthrates) built the pipelines to make all this possible.

Thats presents from pakistan iran too

Wow, the ancients were smart

Where did anyone think the water that makes oasis came from? When people stop making questions and think they know it all and that's all there is, they're as good as dead.

Garamantes remain closely matches with neolithic sahelians from chad mali and niger.

sounds like a great experience

Whites destroyed yet another country, Libya. Like locusts. Ruining everywhere they go. Devils

There are so many places I would love to visit for all the history there but it's just not realistic at the moment unfortunately

My granpa went to and worked in lybia for a while that was in the cold war and he bought a lot of good stuff from the place. Fun story, he went to buy some golden jewels but he forgot his wallet and the shop owner said ,,no problem mister george i trust you, you will pay me the next day" now thats a country of order and hospitality shame somebody (America) decided to ruin it. They also hurt all of africa indirectly, ghdafi had a plan to make a universal african currency and remove the use of the petrol-dollar in africa which would make the continent much more independent, one of the reasons they took him down to be honest but also the oil.

@@Silver_Prussian Wow

Where are you from

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so without the west the would't be able to build shit

My understanding is that the water is "fossil water" from ancient times, when there were glaciers and jungles in what is now Libya. The water does not come from an aquifer that is replenished, but from a deposit that was made millennia ago. When it is sucked dry it will be back to desert. In that situation the normal practice is to regulate for the best conservation, not use it for extravagant displays. Like coal or gold, once the mineral is gone, that is all there is to the story.

@@Dutch_Uncle All of your comment is explained in the video

US is the bane of Libya and the entire world.

no it wont, because they killed gadaffi who built the infrastructure

It will never, its in Africa

It was best in Africa. But US intensionally destroyed it.

@@abrarlabib2325 the gold dinar was unacceptable for US elites

@@abrarlabib2325 Lybia bombed a place in Germany

Also to answer his questions at the end, the problem are foreign countries and more specifically Egypt/UAE that hate the idea of a powerful Libya. They're scared of losing regional power to us.

same

@@NotEebra yup they just want to control us

@@NotEebra lmao what?

@@The-ZebraFinch-Channel yeah lmao

Hi friend, regards from Serbia. Out of curiosity how do u compare the time under Gaddafi, and now? Also as I wish u and your family all the best 😊😊😊

@@nikola_tomic When it comes to safety, economic stability & ease of traveling under Gaddafi it was incomparably better. When it comes to freedom of expression and I would dare say opportunities now is relatively better. Overall the west did us very very bad by orchestrating the coup in 2011.

@@ahmedmresa I figured so, and as to someone coming from Serbia that sounds too familiar unfortunately... Thanks for replying and once again all the best:)

@@nikola_tomic As a Libyan citizen, I tell you that Gaddafi is much better than now, and Gaddafi was an angel in front of those who exist today. Peace be upon the soul of Gaddafi ❤️

Hopefully Libya returns to be the great country that it once was.👍

There are probably signs of human activity, but not actual civilization. Civilization started in river valleys which were not present even then, and 6000 years ago it wasn’t all green, that’s when it ended being green and because a desert. It was probably mostly inhabited 8000-10000 years ago, when civilization wasn’t really present outside of small communities

There is so much left undiscovered, so many ancient cities barely touched by archeology. I fear digging in an inhospitable desert is not a priority, we won't find out if you're correct in our lifetime. However, just in case you're one of those gobekli tepe dudes, I highly recommend the interview on stefan Milo's channel with one of the archeologists working on that site for some context

@@Tingus__Pingus that’s what he’s saying. How do we know that? What were people doing 10,000 years ago? We have no idea what’s under the Sahara and every civilization starts near water. If there was water, there were people and humanity today is missing most of our history. It cycles every 10,000 years right? Say there was no civilization from 20,00-10,000 years ago. What about 40,000-30,000 years ago during the green period before that? We would never know. It’s sad really. Also very arrogant of scientist today to think they know when civilization started.

@@Tingus__Pingus Well the Gobekli Tepe was 12,000+ years old, it kind of surprised us because it appears some people have had construction projects BEFORE agriculture was discovered. The prevailing notion before was that civilizations were started from settled towns relying on agriculture, so nobody will build anything. Stonehenge was 5,000 years ago, so people made their notions based on the possible religious significance of it, religion they figured must have been made AFTER ppl gathered in farming towns.

There are ancient maps that put many towns across the desert as it was originally part of the west Nile that died 4000 years ago... that land is "uninhabitable" and has been for eons.. ps there is a documentary about some of the fortresses that poke out of the dunes in these areas.

Yeah Murica had other plans especially with all that oil Libyans have..

With the USA still as a country I don't think that could happen soon.. It needs time for the effects of war criminals of the USA to lessen, and also needs for a new leader similar to gaddafi to gain power and decide to advance the country. Had the USA not intervened in anything the world would atleast be 100 times better than it is now, they just ruin everything for their own sake..

@@igameidoresearchtoo6511 I can't disagree although Trump was finally the real kind of leader true American Patriots wanted as a leader to our beautiful country...so many Americans want good things for all countries but we have such stupid fellow citizens here it is totally embarrassing to have to share the country with them...there is a movement to see Texas become an independent country once again and I am in full support of such an effort...here is to peace and prosperity for all nations!!

@@vanillathehexican4142 hahaha maga moron :DDD

Apparently they desperately needed some "democracy", we see the results...

How are the slave markets?

So many in the West do not realize that many in the so called Muslim world in Arica and the Middle East are educated and generally well meaning people. But so many of these people in these countries have been under horrid governments for generations. It's a real tragedy that this countries haven't have the good fortune of constructive government which would rise the standard of living for so many. Plus civil wars and wars in general are so wasteful.

@@jimclarence5441 I couldn't agree more Jim. Greetings from Tripoli 👋 I hope you have a wonderful day 😊.

@@jimclarence5441 I heard of some educated Libyan people from my family but the vast majority was of lovely intelligent people.

@@jimclarence5441 Good point. May I add that many in the west also need to know that, when the well meaning people in some Middle Eastern and the Islamic countries have democratically elected their government, the west have had the history of subverting these governments.

Invest in your land and be prosperous again .like China.

Ok Muhamet

@@barsukascool *Muhanad

@@barsukascool *Muhanad

Nice to see someone from Libya! I hope your country becomes more safe and peaceful.

It’s a sad memory, for a very sad country.

Dutch disease

@@badluck5647 Mostly the "interventionism" .

@@hmmm3210 Jobs outside of the oil business or the government were hard to find back when your beloved, child-murdering dictatorship was in power

@@badluck5647 Surprisingly not the case, being here for 3 years I believe it has a huge capitalistic hunger and everyone (even the 3 million on a gov payroll doing nothing) has a private sector job or else they're living (from doing nothing) pay check to pay check struggling

@@NotEebra People working secondary jobs to feed themselves is not a sign of a thriving public sector. High fossil fuel prices drive the currency up which hurts exports, and the best educated will follow the easy money into jobs in the oil business instead of better growth drivers like entrepreneurship. The crazy dictator also scared off most investors from most industries in the country too.

so the earliest part of the project is half way into it's life span? Hope Libya gets everything sorted out soon so they could at least plan for repairs and replacements.

@@xsu-is7vq No, the project was started in the early 80s so it's closing in on forty years. A fair amount more than halfway.

@@jayw900 first phase was completed in the 90’s.

I hope the components last well over their 50 year life. The 1 thing Libya needs now, more than ever, is time. God bless ❤

O NO

Nice thanks

Thanks your comment was usefull 9 month later to me

Only you Libyans can help yourself and be great nation as before. Never ask outsiders ask for help.

No that’s dumb. You’re just sucking up and frivolously using up a resource that won’t be replenished for thousands of years. Pack up the entire country and move out of the desert. Trying to make a desert hospitable is stupid

Yea they tried that , and west destroyed it

Wait how was France involved? I thought it was Obama/CIA project.

Is it still on track? Wasn't it bombed in 2011? Anyway it's an awesome project and I wish Lybia the very best ❤.

@@DakarBlues The GMMR folks have been maintaining the already finished lines as best they can but no actual new developments have been done since 2011. Tough as it is when you have powerful tribes near these pipes that either shut off or blow up a section to get back a family member that was rightfully arrested

It's cool to know it. I hope Your guys handwork would blow as a fruitous result

@@DakarBlues some fields were destroyed in the previous wars, other fields were sabotaged by some people, some fields need some repair parts but it’s expensive to do that with the economic crisis nowadays, but in overall and despite all of this the project still manages to provide water for more than 6 million Libyan citizens, its not working at the same level as the years before 2011 civil war tho

@@maizen1403 much appreciated

West spoils dream of u😔

You idiots killed Gaddafi

Well, it is, but for me it's crazy that you've never seen free universal healthcare...

It snows in Lake Tahoe and up north by Shasta

My family lives in northern Louisiana and it's snowed there.

22 here and never saw snow irl before xD

it actually snows in the north east of Libya sometimes .

speaking of Rommel. do you know that there is a Rommel Museum in Mersa Matruh? An island, a beach and a bridge near the museum are also named for Rommel. There is also a Rommel Café and a Rommel Hotel.

While watching this video, I kept thinking about how any of our feats might be applicable for Australia. I’m thankful for your countrymen’s service, along side the Libyans of the Senussi order, in liberating our country from Nazi rule.

That's all the world needs. More cattle in Australia. Thankfully the Libyans are wiser in their use of scarce resources.

There's a big artesian basin up in the Northwest that goes way out towards Indonesia or Papua, heard they've even thought about piping water to Perth area from like Ord river

Not true, Italy never committed genocide

100%. The channel is run by an American guy who probably thinks that US is the greatest country on Earth, and white people are superior!

they tried@@BrazilianImperialistalsoin eirtera

@@BrazilianImperialistsure, esspecialy in ethiopia

Or not on nebula and stuff lol

I hate these bot comments

Have a great day!

He’s not gonna shag u buddy

When you smell that zaza

Sameee 😂

He does a good job in the infrastructural analysis, but in geopolitics brings a pretty inconsistent and dangerous point of view. Is hard to see that the geopolitical educational level of an average American or EU citizen is a shame! The Arab spring is a good thing only in the western news 🤥 Nato is was a killing machine to various Eastern cultures, like Lybia, Palestine and Syria. The most recent example is the proxy war in Ukraine.

And when you said “NATO is was a killing machine,” did you mean that it currently *is* or it *was*, formerly, a killing machine? 🤔 I’m confused, lol, not trying to be picky. But from there, you could say “NATO; it was a killing machine…” So, NATO with a semicolon followed by “it was,” as a completed thought. 🤷🏼

I’m confused, because you said, _“is hard to see that the geopolitical education of an average American or EU citizen is a shame!”_ Well, first of all, no sentence should really start with _“is hard to see,”_ - that’s not correct. What exactly is “hard to see”? You’d have to say _“IT is hard to see…”_ Did you mean, “it’s hard _NOT_ to see that Americans aren’t educated regarding geopolitics?” That would make more sense, I think. Lol. Another idea; you could say “sham” instead of “shame”, which means “something that is not what it seems,” as in fake or non-existent. Such as how you believe our western geopolitical “education” (surely you mean awareness) is a sham and a failure, apparently, even though it’s not really covered in the educational system… it’s kind of something we have to be aware of ourselves. You could say “it’s hard _NOT_ to see American geopolitical education for the _SHAM_ that it is.” I don’t know, it just makes more sense, to me. More than anything, regardless of what this channel does or does not achieve, anyone watching it regularly (or similar channels) is educating themselves FAR more than the average citizen. Just saying… I mean, shit, most people, when I tell them “I play the violin,” they say “wow, cool, I never heard of that.” Like…so ignorant, that it’s painful. So we can nitpick what this channel does or doesn’t do right, but it’s ultimately a few steps up from the everyday citizen. ✌🏽😬😬

The design and technology of the Great Man-made River were entirely Western: Brown & Root, Price Brothers, etc.

@@ciarandoyle4349 I didn't mean companies.

330milion m3 is nothing compared to 35000KM3, cyprus's one equals only 0.33KM3

Libya and 🇹🇿 Tanzania are light years apart.😆 THERE IS NO COMPARISON When humans think of LAND... its Tanzania they picture in their mind. develop cost for TZ government is alot less than their neighbors for this reason.

This is not much of an innovation tbh. It's just using oil tech to extract fossil water. What is awe inspiring is the sheer scale of this engineering project. No government apart from Gaddafi can ever hope to accomplish something on that magnitude. The fractured Lybian tribes will never pool up enough resources and will to make it happen

they're just extracting water though

@@gvasilyev84 building pipes that stretched over vast distances and over areas that are very hot is a not an easy task. surely there will be innovation to mitigate the effects of heat on the pipes.

@@nicktasteless360 yeah, they buried them underground. Again, I'm not looking down on Lybians. You need a lot of effort to pull off a megaproject, even if it's just wells, pumps, pipes and trenches, essentially. Just throwing money at it is not enough, need logistics.

@@gvasilyev84 NATO destroyed it all. So when you guys complain about middle eastern and African immigrants, remember why they show up in Europe and America. Because Nato is very less likely to bomb themselves

Gaddafi was good

​@@HeyGuy4321 those freedom fighters must enjoying their democracy

They murdered the last good ruler of Africa. Gadaffi. Just because he was trying to make Africa great and independent from neo-colonism. "killed for unknown reason" is completely wrong... He tried to implement the "Golden Dinar", which would ruin the American dollar and the Euro. That would mean, all African and Islamic countries would only sell oil for REAL gold. - As soon as he presented the Golden Dinar, invasion happened. - Same with Saddam Hussein, he wanted to sell oil for Euros instead of Dollar. And the reason why the French were so eager to stop Gadaffi was because he wanted to liberate French "occupied" African countries.

"For some unknown reason"?

thanks. feel bad for you tho, wasnt a fascist elected as your pm?

@@LittleHomieLightningtech yea

@@LittleHomieLightningtech he overtrowed the goverment

@@emyshop79 no i mean rn

@@LittleHomieLightningtech oh Giorgia Meloni yes she is a "fascist" cuz their moviment was the fascist movement

The overthrow become possible only because NATO bombed Lybia, CIA and Arab Spring was not enough, they were forced to bring big guns to finally overthrow Gaddafi. I am baffled by the fact that Western interference considered some kind of conspiracy theory while NATO literally bombed Lybia.

Ur goverment destiyrd it

@@Bell_plejdo568p Actually it was here from Norway the most intensive bombing campaign came. What did we bomb again? I don't remember.

The most important part about CIA is missing.

That aint a good thing

@@tendoo751 the American school system isn't great

Shows you how much this channel teaches

Propaganda

Welcome to the club

Not really. An aquifer is basically a permeable rock formation that is soaked with water. The well at the bottom of your garden, (if you have one) relies on ground water; there is no big cavern holding water !

​@@frasermitchell9183

love libya from malaysia 🇲🇾♥️🇱🇾

He wasn’t a Muslim. Don’t make dua for him.

​@@alimbonzaj7021 How?

You are right, he was an excellent leader, just the man for this country. And with the help of america, the british and the french the murdered him. Poor stupid people. What a shame.

Amin

He was a Man which care for his country to be independent open your mind and bless him

How many people in Libya speak English? Best of luck on finishing the Water project.

… Hegemonic Psychopathy Read PNAC and their lovely ideas😢

? The design and technology of the Great Man-made River were entirely Western: Brown & Root, Price Brothers, etc.

i was hoping that the natural rainfall would at least fill up the northern section of those aquifers like a natural cistern. but rewatching the parts with the maps, its like theres a very clear "no water zone" between the rainfall area and the aquifers. unfortunately all i can see in the future is a scenario where those aquifers collapse or some bunged up effort involving the meditteranean

There is no current way to refill the Aquifers without using a tremendous amount of power and engineering. More than Libya has available. This is more of a stop gap. They need the water now, it is there for now, so might as well us it to help build a nation that can better itself in the future. What exactly that would be I do not know for certain. But it does buy them the time to find out. And that water in the Aquifers is doing nothing but sitting there now anyway. And would continue to do nothing in the future if not used.

Mass desalination, piping the water to the aquifers, and injecting the clean water into them? It would be very expensive but if done it may solve the problem.

@@davidtherwhanger6795 Your view is so wrong. Nothing but destroying. Libya simply should not have had so many childeren.

@@john3_14-17 at that point just use desalination and inject into the network at the coast, no point pumping water up hill for hundreds of miles just to let it run back downhill to your cities at the coastline where it was made. (Basically as long as they invested in desalination before the fossil water runs out they don't need to refill the aquafirs) In a perfect situation that would take the oil money and fossil water and use it as a foundation & kickstarter for a diversified modern economy that can fund the desalination plants and other social programs (like public schools and state run/sponsored health clinics/hospitals). But thats in an ideal world ignoring all the current instability and realities of the region. (Its really easy to say just be rich and stable, much harder to actually do it)

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As a Libyan I'll tell you as long this flag is still used ... You would never accomplish anything no matter what you do

@@jehadsayar9499 why?

@@alhoudiry do you even know the story of that flag ... First .... Ask yourself why after Gaddafi they removed the green one ... I'll tell you ... Because they wanted everything he stood up for to be destroyed and forgotten .... This means ... order ... Safety ... achievements ... This flag was adopted when Libya was assumingly free and liberated .... On 1951 .... Yet all Thier influence and military was still on our land .... Not to mention bars ... Dancing clubs ... Poverty .... Over 70% of the population was illiterate .... And most of the shores and exotic sites are just being used by the foreigners and Libyan are not allowed to get in ... Just like the liedo beach in Tripoli ... So basically Gaddafi came and flipped the table on them ... And now after he's gone(Martyred) ... They taking it to the same direction. .. poverty .... War .... Insecurity .... Western influence and control and military .... So yeah that flag stands for nothing but the dark old Days ... And new one's too

@@jehadsayar9499 hi Jehad, I just wanted to say that I don’t know why people are just so fascinated or have this wrong impression about Gaddafi, he never did anything for the Libyan people. He’s only achievement is this man-made river which probably will be empty by another 30 years yet all these people talk about wow Gaddafi really made Libya, a better safe haven. No he didn’t, He has never build a school hospital or anything at all. Most of all the wealth that our country makes from oil just went to him, do you know that almost 90% of Libyas monetary and gold reserves are outside the country do you know that all of Libya’s gold reserves are stuck in South Africa where they’re just being stolen do you know that his kids specifically, al Saadi invested in Juventus invested in fiat just for his personal wealth wealth that was supposed to go to the citizens of Libya, so I’m just astonished by all these people who aren’t Libyans who didn’t live 40 years of oppression under this man say that wow look at Libya, if only the west, just left him alone, they would’ve been far better off, I’m not saying that Libya is better now, but this representation that Gaddafi made Libya better is so wrong, I remember my dad used to tell me the stories about how in the 80s there was barely any foreign products in Libya and that Libyan citizens can’t travel abroad because of a bombing in West Berlin, where Gaddafi was just funding, militias all around the world from Ireland to cross the whole world you cant even buy clothes that’s how tough it was so I wish people would just before they talk about something do more research and see exactly what happened to Libya. Also, there is a documentary on Netflix called “how to become a tyrant” I think it’s like the third episode you’ll see his name on it, but you should really watch that would actually give you a little bit of insight about the country during his rule.

Onkar or Omkar??

Like the teacher who read a kid's research paper that had the phrase, "even though it was produced in the late 1900s, the movie 'The Matrix' is still relevant today"