Okay, a little impressed...
They have natural gas, and an ocean... but they have a shortage of water? Desalination is a decades old technology. To use it you need ocean water and gas turbines. Then you have natural gas and clean, potable water.
What is wrong with the rulers that they can’t solve a problem any 12 year old with an internet connection couldn’t solve?
Pretty ambitious, but this is what I like. Forward thinking that actually improves people lives. Shake-ur-Booty has become more important especially to the Ethiopians after the loss of Eritrea. I think the port at Djibouti has become Ethiopia’s primary sea port. Sure the Egyptians will oppose this since they would prefer that everything is routed through the Sinai.
The only thing I learned in school was how to pronounce Djibouti.
Building that bridge and then dropping it would close one of the “Gates of the Sea”.
Tunnel linking Europe to Africa planned [2003, with February update]
New Scientist | December 15, 2003 | Will Knight
Posted on 12/17/2008 4:20:22 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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