Chapter 1042: Water Project

After leaving the exhibition hall, Yang Qihang brought people to the reception room.

After the coffee arrived, Catherine finally couldn't help asking the question she most wanted to ask.

President Yang, although I feel you will succeed, there are too many doubts here.

Could you explain to us how you solved the water problem?

She didn't want to wait at all; she wanted to know the answer right now.

Catherine's sudden question left Yang Qihang stunned for a moment, then he smiled and said.

Ms. Mai'er, you've asked a very crucial question.

It is also the most crucial question.

Speaking of which, when we first started, we also posed this question to ourselves.

Water resources are unavoidable.

The funnel-shaped farm is the first solution we thought of.

If we could encounter several heavy rains each year, we could solve our main problem.

So, relying on heaven is one of the methods.

The second method is using greenhouses.

The three-dimensional farm has high planting yields, can be scaled, refined, standardized, normalized, mechanized production—that's one reason; another reason is that greenhouses can effectively reduce evaporation and, by relying on day-night temperature differences, achieve recycling of water resources.

During the day, the water transpired by plants dissipates inside the greenhouse.

At night, as the temperature drops, this water vapor can condense back into water.

This water will be collected by us for reuse, re-entering the water cycle.

Moreover, you should have noticed the funnel's unique shape; this shape helps gather moist water vapor, making the humidity inside the farm much higher than outside.

Next, we need to rely on groundwater.

We have usage rights to a certain amount of groundwater resources.

The water currently in the underground reservoir is the groundwater we pump.

We will also use the flood season to divert river water into our underground reservoir.

Combining these methods, our farm's water needs can be met to ninety percent.

The remainder must be adjusted by increasing or decreasing the planting area according to actual conditions, to regulate water usage.

Although Yang Qihang said so many methods, it still cannot hide the fact that they have fundamentally not solved the water problem.

If the water problem isn't solved, how can we promote on a large scale?

Without large-scale promotion, how can we turn the desert into fertile farmland?

President Yang, in that case, it would be hard to meet your farm's expansion needs, wouldn't it?

The water used by a small farm and that needed by hundreds of millions of mu of farmland are worlds apart.

Without solving the water problem, I fear everything will be nothing but castles in the air.

Yang Qihang's expression showed no change at all.

Catherine understood; they indeed still had other plans.

Ms. Mai'er, this is our preliminary research; if the technology matures, naturally there will be other plans.

Catherine.

President Yang, could you give us a rough overview?

Yang Qihang picked up the tablet.

There's nothing we can't say; this is merely a concept.

Look, this is our conceived underground reservoir and underground dark river, plus connecting pipes, forming an underground water network.

You know, this desert is vast.

Sometimes, the north is under heavy rain while the south has clear skies for thousands of miles, extremely dry.

At that time, if we could, through the underground water network, direct the water from the north that is forming floodwaters to the south.

Not only can it solve the flood problem, it can also solve the drought problem.

Moreover, with the balance of groundwater, the water resources here will be much more abundant, providing conditions for promoting farms on a larger scale.

Catherine stared blankly at the densely packed underground reservoirs and the densely packed underground water pipes.

Is this something humans can accomplish?

What kind of cost would this entail?

President Yang, is this possible?

Yang Qihang.

Bold hypothesis, careful verification.

Regardless of whether it's possible or not, this is a method to solve the problem of water scarcity.

It might not meet the entire desert's demand, but if it can satisfy thirty percent, that would be a huge victory.

Just that thirty percent could bring earth-shaking changes to this desert.

Just that thirty percent would be enough for us to shift from a grain-importing country to a grain-exporting country.

The people in the live broadcast room still had their attention on that densely packed water network at that moment.

These building people really dare to imagine, huh.

Such a massive project, if completed, would be the world's first miracle.

The key is how much money it would cost—enough to buy us, right?

They could, like building a railway, first construct a few main arteries that run east-west and north-south.

Then they could build the rest of the underground water network.

"Do a bit, fix a bit, and someday sooner or later we can finish it."

"Is the picture not familiar to you? Doesn't it look like a series of launch shafts and underground shelters?"

"You don't even have to say it, it really does."

"The truth is, Daxia is using the guise of an underground water network to build missile shafts and doomsday fortresses."

"Stop rambling, let's get back to the point: if they actually finish it, what will happen?"

"The desert becomes an oasis!"

"Daxia people will no longer lack food."

"It seems no one expected Daxia's water‑transport project."

"If they connect the water‑transport project to the underground water network…"

"Brilliant idea!"

"It could actually be possible."

"If so, their development would become very balanced."

"No weak points."

"They could sustain another 500 million people."

"That's insane."

………………

Catherine felt it was impossible, because it was too unbelievable.

The scale of the project is too massive, the investment too huge.

If mishandled, it could bring down Daxia.

Her mind refused to believe, but her heart kept telling her this is real; Daxia indeed wants to do this.

Catherine asked directly.

"Mr. Yang, this is hard to believe; such a massive amount of funds poured here cannot be good for Daxia."

Yang Qing hesitated briefly, intending to brush it off.

But on second thought, perhaps this is an opportunity.

"Miss Maier, what are your thoughts on the future?"

Catherine was puzzled.

"Mr. Yang, what do you mean?"

"I'm talking about the future—ten, twenty, or thirty years ahead."

"What the world will become, what kind of life we will lead."

Yang Qihang's words made Catherine start to think; she seemed to grasp something.

"Mr. Yang, are you saying future construction costs will drop dramatically?"

Yang Qihang shook his head.

"I mean, perhaps in the future humanity's value won't be in manufacturing or production, but in reshaping the world."

"As technology advances, we are drawing ever closer to a mechanical age."

"A huge amount of low‑value human labor will be replaced."

"Then, what will human life become?"

"Will we fundamentally change the way we live now?"