Water in the Desert.
After the success of the Suez Canal a project was mooted to flood the desert of Sahara by letting the waters of the Mediterranean Sea upon it, the sandy plain being below that sea. It was too big an undertaking, but the object, though on a smaller scale, has been brought about by the simpler and. infinitely less expensive method of. artesian boring. The scientific columns of a recent English journal mentions that in the south of the department of Constantine, no less than 690' artesian wells have been sunk, having a depth of 29,934 metres, and yielding 490,016 cubic metres of water per day. At Et-Golea, the most southerly point where these wells have been sunk, a natural reservoir of water has been discovered about 40 metres from the surface, so copious that a column of water is thrown up from the sound hole of 200 litres per minute. All this water has been obtained in a locality were life was previously all all but impossible, owing to the sterility of the country
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Manawatu Herald, 25 June 1892, Page 2
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178Water in the Desert. Manawatu Herald, 25 June 1892, Page 2
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