Recently, major events have occurred in the international community, and Libya, located in distant North Africa, has actually seen a major event. Recently, a very rare flood occurred in the northern Libyan city of Derna, which has caused more than 3,000 people to die and more than 10,000 people to be missing. After seeing this, the author could not help but sigh that if the North African strongman and Libyan lion Gaddafi were still there, such a tragedy might not have happened.
In fact, the Derna dam often suffers from seasonal flooding, which Libyan authorities have long been aware of, so why is no one starting to prevent it or take other measures? The reason for this is also simple: peace has never really come to the land since the war in Libya. At present, Libya not only has two major governments, the "National Congress" in the east and the "National Unity" in the west, but also the desert area in the south is a playground for various princes. In addition, Turkey, Egypt, the West and other countries have also supported "their own people" here, and Libya, once beautiful and rich, has now become a veritable "failed country".
The city of Derna, where the flood occurred, is just at the intersection of various forces, which can be called the "three-way zone", so it is often pulled back and forth by armed forces from all sides. In order to avoid making wedding clothes for others, whoever captures this place is reluctant to spend energy on thankless infrastructure construction, and water control and flood control work is not cared for.
The city of Derna is the capital of the district of Derna. Bordering the Mediterranean. Located in an oasis of wealth, it is known as the "jewel of Cyrenaica"
In contrast, during the Gaddafi period, Libya always attached great importance to the construction of water conservancy projects. For example, Libya's desert irrigation canal project, once known as the "Eighth Wonder of Mankind", is a water network system that winds 4,000 kilometers long, transports an average of 6.5 million cubic meters of water per day, can irrigate a total area of 150,000 hectares of fertile land, and meets 70% of Libya's agricultural needs, all completed in 2009 at a cost of more than 30 billion US dollars, bringing considerable benefits to Libya and laying a solid foundation for Libya's future development.
As a result, this remarkable engineering waterway was unfortunately destroyed by NATO bombing, which is really regrettable.
Imagine if Libya had not experienced NATO's blatant war, it would not have fallen into chaos, and a long-foreseen flood like the flood in Derna would have been easily prevented!