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In various other regions of the planet, potential transformations similar in principle to the effect which NAWAPA will create in North America, are waiting to be catalyzed.
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Let's bring to life one of many examples, a project shut down under Gorbachev,
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but discussed recently by German stateswomen and wife of Lyndon LaRouche, Helga Zepp LaRouche,
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as well as the mayor of Moscow, the Presidents of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and the former head of latter nation's Academy of Sciences:
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a transformation achieved through linking up the run-off of Siberian rivers with the shrinking Aral Sea.
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This is but one example of a region which has been experiencing a biospheric and noetic downshift, as a result of the dessicaton of the Sea.
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The Aral Sea has seen a dramatic shrinking since the 1960's and 70's,
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when water which fed the sea from two Eurasian rivers, the Amu and Syr Darya, was diverted for the purpose of water intensive cotton-farming,
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which was the agricultural responsibility of the adjacent region under the Soviet system.
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The dessication of the Sea has destroyed the fishing industry,
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but has also adversely impacted weather in the surrounding region,
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which is now plagued by salt storms, and has seen a change in climate and moisture conditions from the shrinking of the sea itself,
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but which has also resulted in a lowering of the groundwater table along the Amu and syr Darya river deltas,
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adversely impacting the climate and precipitation as a result of the destruction of agriculture, as well as agriculture itself.
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The general region affected spans a band from 80-300 km surrounding the sea.
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Is this region, with some of the most fertile soil in Central Asia, supposed to be a desert?
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As human beings, who can uniquely conceive of and act on the planet as a whole,
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we can see that the potential solution to this problem lies many miles to the northeast,
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in the Altai mountains seated at the intersection of the nations of Russia, Kazakhstan, China, and Mongolia.
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It is a region of anomalously high precipitation, and is the source of the Ob and Irtysh Rivers, which drain into the Arctic.
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The Sibaral canal project, proposed in 1940 by Russian engineer Davydov and since modified,
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would dam the Ob and Irtysh Rivers where they meet and drain into the Arctic,
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and create a resevoir, achieved through diverting roughly 8% of the runoff waters.
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The Sibaral canal, which will vary from anywhere between 35 and 50 feet deep,
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will either be constructed directly from this resevoir, or, will be constructed after partially reversing the Irtysh River,
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further down near the city of Tobolsk, the home of physical chemist Dmitri Mendeleyev.
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The maximum length of the canal would span a distance of almost 2550 km.
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The canal would be about 200 meters wide and potentially navigable.
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The water will be pumped through a series of pumping stations up until the the Turgai Divide in north central Kazakhstan,
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here achieved through a series of 6 pumps, in total lifting the water about 300 feet.
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On the other side of the Turgai divide, water will flow by gravity past the cities of Turgai, Irgis and Kazalinsk,
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where it will then replenish the Aral sea with the fresh water.
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Fishing will be rejuventated, in additon to agriculture, as 4.5 million hectares of irrigable land will be made available to produce for Russian and Eurasian comsumption.
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Life in the region will be made more pleasant, with the cessation of salt dust storms.
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This process of greening will further impact other climactic and other biospheric cycles, in the same way as NAWAPA in the US.
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It can also be brought directly to Nukus, whose forest and farm land area has shrunk dramatically.
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The Aral Sea will once again, become visible from space.
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This kind of transformation could be coupled with other endeavors in Western Russia,
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including the expansion of the Volga-Don Canal, giving the Volga an outlet to the Mediterranean,
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and completing the Pechora-Kama Canal, linking up the Volga with another Arctic River.
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Keep in mind, that as an ice age approached, increased salinity of the Arctic may be advantageous.
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This can be accompanied by a raw materials development and transportation corridor such as the Industrial Urals-Arctic Urals project envisioned by the late Academian Alexander Granberg.
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Only 10-12% of the northern reaches of the Urals Federal District have been subjected to thorough geological study.
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All of this taken together outlines a corridor of biospheric and noetic development of Eurasia,
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which would be further improved by, and also determine, in part, a new relationship to Europe and Africa.
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This entire process would be augmented by new northern rail lines to the rail to the Bering Strait tunnel,
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it's connection to NAWAPA and related rail networks, NAWAPA-like projects for Mexico,
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and the completion of the Pan-american Highway with the taming of the Darien Gap by man.
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This particular corridor which we looked at in more detail, spanning in direct impact a region which is virtually 1/10 of the circumference of the Earth,
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is itself only a smaller feature of a global corridor of biopsheric and noetic development,
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which will represent, to use Vladimir Vernadsky's language, a biogenic and cognitive migration of mateirials on a scale not yet achieved before, but within grasp.
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Implementing the NAWAPA concept now in North America,
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Implementing the NAWAPA concept now in North America, from the United States with the power of our credit system and without Obama, can soon usher in the transformation of this planetary corridor.
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