[wvns] Mega Lake under North Darfur Sands
El-Baz: Mega Lake under North Darfur Sands
By Isma'il Kamal
Saturday 23 June 2007
http://www.smc.sd/en/artopic.asp?artID=15725&aCK=ED
In a jam packed conference room with over 400 attendees, world
renowned Egyptian scientist Farouk El-Baz gave a talk on the "North
Darfur Mega Lake," Wednesday evening, June 20, 2007. The event was
held in al-Shaheed Shareef Zein al-`Abideen Conference Room in The
Police House in Khartoum, and was attended by several high ranking
governmental officials, including Presidential Advisor Arkoi Minawi,
Foreign Minister Lam Akol, Defense Minister Abd al-Rahim Muhammad
Hussein and former Prime Minister al-Sadiq al-Mahdi. Several Sudanese
academicians also attended.
The event was organized by Compurterman College with several
co-sponsors, including The Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources
and al-Ribat National University. The talk was moderated by the
Minister of Interior, al-Zubayr Basheer Taha.
El-Baz argued that beneath the sands of North Darfur, about one
kilometer deep, lies a "mega lake" of water, collected nearly one
million years ago.
"This area that is desert was different in the past, probably
savannah," said El-Baz of northern Sudan and southern Egypt and Libya.
El-Baz compared the "North Darfur Mega Lake" to the deep ground waters
used to feed Libya's Great Man-Made River and Egypt's Salima
Depression water wells in south-west Egypt.
Professor Farouk El-Baz, along with Boston University, Computerman
College and University College Khartoum, have launched an initiative
to dig one thousand artesian wells around the mega lake of northern
Darfur.
"This will help us grow wheat and not depend on the West," he said.
Several governmental attendees promised to promote the issue in
upcoming Council of Ministers' meetings.
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