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Saudi Arabia Is Building A River That Will Be Longer Than The Nile

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Hold on to your hats, folks! Saudi Arabia is about to launch the mother of all water projects. In a move that will make even the Nile river look small, the kingdom is planning to dig a “river” that spans a whopping 12,000 kilometres. Yes, you heard that right: 12,000 kilometres! To put that in perspective, it’s like laying a pipe from New York to Beijing, with some spare change to boot.

Just to set things clear, it will not be a Nile-like open-flowing river; the water here will be flowing through anti-corrosion pipes.

The video of this project was posted by Ahmad Al Shugairi, a prominent Saudi reporter, as part of his TV show ‘Seen’. He mentions on his show that the pipes running beneath Saudi cities already total a staggering 126,000 kilometres. If they were laid end-to-end, they could circle the globe three times and produce a mind-boggling 9.4 million cubic metres of water every day.

So get ready to witness the largest desalinated water transportation system in the world. Add this to the list of gigaprojects that are currently underway in Saudi Arabia.

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